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We didn’t take the plunge before the arranging/engineering team of William Ross and Jochem van der Saag took it for us,” Straw says. The pair had worked with the producer David Foster on a Cassidy duet with Michael Bolton a few years earlier, but now “they appeared out of the blue with their Eva Orchestral ideas in the form of synth demos”. 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. Cassidy had a relationship with Chris Biondo, but this had ended before her cancer diagnosis. [ citation needed] Illness and death [ edit ] RIAA Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2007-06-26 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. That voice and its contours were something Willis has come to know intimately during the making of the new record: “She always seems authentic. She doesn’t seem to be showy, she doesn’t seem to conceive of vanity – she’s completely in the moment.”

Burley, Rob; Maitland, Jonathan; Rhodes Byrd, Elana (2003). Eva Cassidy: Songbird: Her Story by Those Who Knew Her. Gotham Books. ISBN 978-1-59240-035-5.The way ‘Imagine’ got into her repertoire,” Biondo says, “is that we were out at a club called the Roxy, and a reggae group called Dwata started their set off with ‘Imagine’ in reggae style. She decided that it would be a cool song to do.” a b c d e Siegel, Joel E. "Liner notes". Eva by Heart. republished online at crosstownarts.com. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008 . Retrieved March 6, 2008. Wartofsky, Alona (November 20, 1992). "Side by Side". Washington City Paper. Archived from the original on June 10, 2007 . Retrieved November 2, 2016. a b c Peaks in Australia: "Australian Charts > Eva Cassidy". australian-charts.com Hung Medien . Retrieved 2011-07-24.

Scarpone, Amanda (January 26, 2005). "Eva Cassidy Remembered". Broadwayworld.com . Retrieved November 2, 2016. The Eva Cassidy album IMAGINE was released internationally in August 2002. During the week of August 25, 2002, IMAGINE was the #1 album on the album charts in the United Kingdom! Lawyer disqualified from continuing to represent Blix Street Records in suit over right to distribute early Eva Cassidy album, over objections of Cassidy's parents who were lawyer's clients too when lawsuit was filed, but now want to settle case even though Blix Street does not". Entertainment Law Reporter. October 2004.

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a b Gerds, Warren (November 25, 2007). "SNC alumna, Sheboygan native receives leadership award". Green Bay Press-Gazette . Retrieved November 2, 2016. [ dead link] Alt URL The title song, “Imagine,” is Eva’s own rendition of the famous pacifist anthem by John Lennon. This recording was made at Chris Biondo’s studio. He recalls, “Eva was interested in trying to get into Reynolds Tavern and a few other clubs like that. She wanted to make a demo tape to drop off for the people who booked the clubs. She came into the studio on two different days and sang ten or twelve songs, three or four times each. They were all shorter versions so as not to bore the club owners. Besides ‘Imagine’ and ‘Tennessee Waltz,’ she did ‘Wade in the Water,’‘Kathy’s Song,’‘Songbird,’‘The Bold Young Farmer,’ and a few others.”

You’ve Changed” is another “repeat” song in that a duet version is part of the album THE OTHER SIDE. As a solo, it was a standard in Eva’s repertoire with the band, and she sang it at Blues Alley the night the live album was recorded. It was videotaped, and I have written a short description of her introduction to that song, with photos, which you can read here. The eloquent piano-playing of Lenny Williams is featured. Farber, Jim (March 11, 2001). "Internet fuels singer's posthumous success". The Deseret News. New York Daily News . Retrieved November 2, 2016. [ permanent dead link] Cassidy album six-times platinum". The Press Association. November 2, 2009 . Retrieved November 10, 2009. Earlier that year, the singer had arrived at a release party for a self-released live album walking with a cane; she had fallen while painting a mural for her father, she said, and injured her hip. But within three months Cassidy was diagnosed with melanoma so advanced that it had already spread to her bones. She died that November.Willis came to feel it was perhaps not entirely unconnected to his work as a film-score composer. “It’s a little like scoring a movie – she’s already done it, so I could follow the contours of her voice.” Farber, Jim (November 2, 2021). " 'One of the best singers ever': remembering Eva Cassidy, 25 years after her death". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Official Albums Chart Top 100 10 March 2023 - 16 March 2023". Official Charts. 10 March 2023 . Retrieved 10 March 2023.