Walkin' After Midnight Eva Cassidy

• 1 Walkin' After Midnight (Walkin' After Midnight) 02:44
• 2 Blue Skies (Walkin' After Midnight) 02:39
• 3 Next Time You See Me (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:17
• 4 Summertime (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:47
• 5 Honeysuckle Rose (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:10
• 6 Route 66 (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:02
• 7 Ain't No Sunshine (Walkin' After Midnight) 04:06
• 8 Fever (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:54
• 9 Down Home Blues (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:31
• 10 Wade In The Water (Walkin' After Midnight) 03:40
• 11 Cheek To Cheek (Walkin' After Midnight) 04:21
• 12 Won't Be Long (Walkin' After Midnight) 04:03
• Total Runtime 42:14

Info zu Walkin' After Midnight

A new Eva Cassidy album, Walkin’ After Midnight, will be released on September 6th. The album has twelve previously-unreleased tracks, which were recorded at the Maryland Inn’s King of France Tavern in Annapolis in 1995. Alternative renditions of most of these songs have appeared on previous albums, but these new ones have a different western swing sound.

Since her untimely passing in 1996 from melanoma at the age of 33, singer Eva Cassidy has earned critical acclaim and an international following for her interpretive skills, selling some 12 million records in the process. WALKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHT, a new collection comprised of 12 never-before-released live tracks, showcases her versatile voice and sometimes familiar repertoire in a whole new light.

Eva Cassidy connoisseurs will recognize the bulk of the song selection—only “Down Home Blues” has never appeared on a previous Cassidy collection—but the approach is refreshingly different as symphony violinist Nasta transforms into a fiddle player for the night and Cassidy’s extraordinary voice fills the spaces left by the missing instruments. Rock guitarist Grimes responds with a lighter touch to his playing. Known for her wide-ranging, but unerringly tasteful, sense of material, Cassidy brings a cohesive western swing feel to WALKIN’ AFTER MIDNIGHT’s classic set list, including “Fever,” “Summertime,” “Route 66” and “Cheek to Cheek,” as if she planned it that way.

It would be two months after the Maryland Inn show that Cassidy and her band would record the set at the Blues Alley nightclub in Washington, DC that would largely define her posthumous career. One year to the day after the Maryland Inn appearance, she would be gone.

Thankfully, Eva’s bassist and producer Chris Biondo plugged a DAT recorder into the venue’s PA system, capturing the full concert, which took place a year to the day before Eva died, aged 33, from cancer. It was also two months before the Blues Alley concert which became the foundation of the shy singer’s posthumous fame. Beloved across the world, Eva’s music also found fans among her musical peers from Adele, Elton John and Ozzy Osborne to Sting, Paul Simon and Paul McCartney.

None of Walkin’ After Midnight’s dozen recordings – among them the Patsy Cline title track, ‘Fever’, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ and ‘Summertime’, plus Eva’s only ever recording of the ZZ Hill song ‘Down Home Blues’ – has ever been released before. The Western Swing tag, a reference to the 1920s country music subgenre played primarily on stringed instruments, comes from a description doodled on her label’s track list.

Having misplaced two musicians that night, Eva invited her friend Bruno Nasta, a classical, jazz and rock violinist from Baltimore, to guest at the gig. Eva played her acoustic, Chris was on bass and Keith Grimes on electric guitar.

Proving the old adage that less can be more, the combo created a serendipitous, alternate context for some of Eva’s most popular repertoire. Dancing in the space opened up by the absence of additional musicians, Eva’s vocals are as joyous and free as any previously heard and perhaps the most playful of her cruelly cut-short career.

Brilliantly, Bruno morphs from a symphony violinist into a fiddle player who brightens the sound. Keith responds with a lighter touch as befitting a Western Swing band.

Eva Cassidy, vocals, guitar
Keith Grimes, guitar
Chris Biondo, bass
Bruno Nasta, fiddle

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