Live at Blues Alley (Eva Music) was recorded and released. The present Nightbird is the expansion and 20th Anniversary celebration of a life ended too soon and a recording promising so much. Recorded January 3, 1996, Cassidy would be gone by November...a streak of light across the night sky. In addition to including Eva’s previously unreleased, re-defining version of San Francisco Bay Blues, Simply Eva is the first album to include the Blues Alley guitar/vocal performance of Over The Rainbow embodied in the Rainbow video that triggered Eva Cassidy’s rise to the top of the British Pop Charts in March, 2001. Recorded five years after the 1991 version heard on Songbird, Eva’s fully evolved Rainbow literally redefined this all-time number one popular song (according to a BBC radio poll). previously available on "Eva Cassidy Sings" (DVD); "What A Wonderful World" from that collection is omitted here. As soon as her vocal came on, I felt it was extraordinary,” he said. “By the time I finished the album, I came to the conclusion that this was one of the best singers ever.” Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 1): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH

ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2004 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. On the other hand, Biondo said Cassidy “thought that was kinda cool,” an attitude that underscores her focus on the performance rather than its reception. “She just liked to go out and sing,” he said. “She didn’t want anybody to jump up and down.” Nightbird is a 2-CD plus 1-DVD live album by American singer Eva Cassidy, released posthumously in November 2015, nineteen years after her death.

Matrix / Runout (CD1 Variant 1): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH At times, however, the subtlety of her approach, and the quiet intensity of it, could fly over the heads of some audiences. “We never played loud which was a problem for us,” Biondo said. “One time, we played this club in southern Maryland and we were doing ballads, country tunes and the clientele was into Lynyrd Skynyrd, so people were leaving. The guy who had hired us to play said, ‘How about I pay you and you guys go home?’ It’s never a good thing when someone pays you to leave.”

Eva Cassidy – Nightbird Eva Cassidy". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved June 18, 2016.RIAA Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2007-06-26 . Retrieved 2011-07-24.

a b "Eva Cassidy > Album & Song Chart History > Billboard 200". Billboard Nielsen Business Media . Retrieved 2011-07-24. More than 25 years after Cassidy's passing, her dream has finally come true. The 'new' I Can Only Be Me* album represents a kind of séance in song in which the late singer's original vocals have been paired with the London Symphony Orchestra via rich new arrangement." ( Jim Farber - the Independent) Doug Macleod, the artist who sang the original version of this song, had this to say about Cassidy’s rendition during an interview with earlyblues.com in April, 2009:The Best of Eva Cassidy: "CHART WATCH #385". auspOp. September 10, 2016 . Retrieved September 11, 2016.

ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2002 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on July 20, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. 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.” a b "ARIA Charts > Accreditations > 2005 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on December 21, 2008 . Retrieved 2011-07-24. Ten years after she first topped the British charts you may think you've heard all there is to hear from Eva Cassidy. Think again. You may have heard most of these classic Eva songs before but, as sure as less is more, you have not experienced anything like this collection of previously unreleased Eva-only, guitar/vocal performances. It’s like hearing Eva Cassidy for the first time, again.

Matrix / Runout (CD2 Variant 2): [SixtySix Productions logo] www.sixtysixproductions.co.uk AF10022-02 manufactured by optimal media GmbH Offiziellecharts.de – Eva Cassidy – Nightbird" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved June 18, 2016.