When Eva Cassidy passed away in 1996 at the age of 33, the world at large didn’t realize it was robbed of an immense talent, what with the American songstress output at that moment consisting of one studio record and one on-stage album. The latter, titled “Live At Blues Alley” and issued five month prior to her death, documented Cassidy’s show in a Washington, D.C. nightclub in January 1996, and none of Eva’s posthumous official releases contained earlier performances. Yet it’s about to change on November 8th, when a dozen-track concert platter “Walkin’ After Midnight” will see the light of day.
It presents the late chanteuse in a slightly different light, too, as, arriving for a gig at the “King of France Tavern” in Annapolis on November 2nd, 1995, Cassidy found two of her regular accompanists unaccounted for and filled the sonic gap with her friend Bruno Nasta’s violin, which in the presence guitar and bass, as well as Eva’s acoustic strum, created a Western swing atmosphere – quite unusual for the artiste who went for fresh colors on eleven cuts that would be familiar to her current followers and added, as she often used to, George Jackson’s “Down Home Blues” to the set. The results promise to become a treat for all the musician’s fans now.
Walkin After Midnight
1. Walkin’ After Midnight
2. Blue Skies
3. Next Time You See Me
4. Summertime
5. Honeysuckle Rose
6. Route 66
7. Ain’t No Sunshine
8. Fever
9. Down Home Blues
10. Wade In The Water
11. Cheek To Cheek
12. Won’t Be Long
