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In 2001, Songbird: Eva Cassidy: Her Story By Those Who Knew Her, a book on the life and work of Cassidy based on interviews with close family and associates, was released in the UK. A US edition published by Gotham Books was released in late 2003 and includes two additional chapters on her influences and success in the US. Her life story has also been adapted into a musical [49] and also a Broadway piece for cancer benefit. [50] I was only aware of Eva in the way that most people are,” Willis says from Los Angeles. “I discovered her through Love Actually and found her completely beguiling.” It is Willis’s ability to not over-sweeten Cassidy’s voice that makes the album feel relevant. The enduring power of Cassidy’s voice has been one of the music industry’s greatest and most unexpected successes (Photo: Republic Media)

Scarpone, Amanda (January 26, 2005). "Eva Cassidy Remembered". Broadwayworld.com . Retrieved November 2, 2016. Qureshi, Arusa (March 10, 2023). "The Lathums land second Number One album with 'From Nothing To A Little Bit More' ". NME . Retrieved March 11, 2023. RIAA Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2007-06-26 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. Meanwhile, Cassidy continued to plug away with her band. Label interest came and went as the singer repeatedly refused to capitulate to their desire to restrict her to a single genre or another. I don’t know that she would’ve wanted to do these songs with an orchestra,” he says. “But she had the ambition to do that; when she sang these jazz standards, she did so with her band of unimpeachable jazz musicians, but you could imagine them on a bigger scale.”

Though many have come to similar conclusions since, Biondo was one of the first to do so. He met Cassidy in the winter of 1986 when, on the recommendation of a mutual friend, she came to visit him at his small home recording studio. “She was afraid to come inside because she had not done any recording like this before,” Biondo said. According to the liner notes of the "Live at Blues Alley" CD:"* this wasn't in the live show but it is my favorite song..." Ross and van der Saag’s work led to the first London Symphony Orchestra sessions in 2018 and kindled the thought of investigating others’ approach to orchestral arrangements of the catalogue. ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2002 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on July 20, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. a b c d e f g Dalphonse, Sherri (May 1, 2001). "Songbird". Washingtonian . Retrieved March 6, 2008.

Farber, Jim (March 1, 2023). " 'A séance in song': How a new album fulfils one of Eva Cassidy's musical dreams". The Independent . Retrieved March 11, 2023. Biondo believes that skill is what freed her to bring so much emotion to the songs. “There are a lot of components to someone trying to pull off a tune,” he said. “They have to think about the technical parts, about what the next note is and what the phrasing will be. But because those things were so natural to Eva, it allowed her to go right to the next level, which was to go inside the song and feel the lyrics.” In 1996, Blix Street Records was a small label based in Gig Harbor, Washington. When one of their signings, Grace Griffith, brought her friend Cassidy’s music to the attention of the label’s head, Bill Straw, she did so with some urgency – Cassidy had only a few months left to live. Two of the songs on IMAGINE are from one-take recordings Eva made as demos for nightclubs where she hoped to play solo engagements. The way in for me was there were some songs that felt unfinished – some of the stranger songs, the little-known folk and traditional songs,” Willis says. “Eva did a version of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ‘Tall Trees in Georgia’, where she tremolos along with a guitar, and in our version I had some bendy whistles, and I thought they could be like the birds in a tree. Too much, and they could be twee, but a little, and they conjure up a narrator alone with her thoughts.”Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. March 10, 2023 . Retrieved March 11, 2023. Fleming, Michael (December 7, 2007). "Eva Cassidy biopic in the works". Variety. Archived from the original on December 23, 2007 . Retrieved March 6, 2008.