Eva Cassidy

And we'll not see you through the week, but we'll see you through the winter.

And as always, we've got one time to play us out and it is none other than the Androids on Eva Cassidy.

with Autumn Leaves and it's a beautiful song to run the show with enjoy the show thanks for listening take care I'll be back with you next week on to the next one

The falling leaves drift by my window The falling leaves of red and gold I see your lips The summer kisses The sunburnt hands I used to hold The days grow long And soon I'll hear Old winter's song But I miss you Most of all My darling When autumn leaves start to fall Thank you.

Uh, have you a favorite type of song to listen to yourself, if you're not writing or doing your own material?

Yeah, I mean, I, I'm a huge, um, Eva Cassidy fan-

Oh, yeah

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And American tune, which I feel is a deeply patriotic song, hits me especially hard these days.

This has been covered 140 times by artists from Eva Cassidy to Alan Toussaint.

But the one I want to highlight is by Rhiannon Giddens.

This one happened in 2022 at the Grammy salute to Paul Simon.

It is high still, but it's not right there.

And I like to sing Songbird by Eva Cassidy or Fleetwood Mac.

Like, that song might not seem hard, but it's in a, it's in a, it's in the register, like, the part of my voice I have to use I have to like be very technical with how I sing it and it's like in a part where if your voice is tired it's very weak so like my voice would be really good really low you know because I like put my larynx really low and I can sing like that but then I can sing really high it's fine but in the middle bit That's where your voice tends to go weaker.

And that's where I have to sing for songbirds.

You know, Blake was talking about fields of gold and when they played funerals.

It was sung by Eva Cassidy.

She did a wonderful version of it too, didn't she? Eva Cassidy.

Yeah, poor old Eva.

She wasn't even old.

She died before she got famous.

I think that's true.

Billy Pennell often talks about Eva Cassidy as well.

Good tune, lots of good music in there.

Before that, we had Eva Cassidy, Fields of Gold and the Irish Roses, Carrick Fergus.

And we'd better do some more

of these, I think.

We're getting very close to Andy Stewart now too, so I hope you're all getting organised for that.

Good morning to you, James and Mr Ivor.

Two very pretty songs, Fields of Gold, yes, Eva Cassidy.

Sting also does a beautiful version.

It'll probably be half and half some covers.

I love the likes of like Eva Cassidy, you know, Whitney Houston, Adele, all those kind of ones.

But with a bit of our own twist.

Yeah, it's the perfect.

So I'm, I'm, I've already a couple of songs that I've written.

They need to be, uh, they need to be, uh, how do you say that? Not corrected, but it's first draft, you know? But I'll still keep my, um, my style because this, uh, I'm sort of, uh, you remember Eva Cassidy?

Yeah.

Oh yeah.