Eva Cassidy, Method Actor - Method Actor
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Artist: Eva Cassidy, Method ActorEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: Blp Records
Soundtracks:
- Getting Out
- Look Into My Eyes
- When It's Too Late
- Laugh With Me
- Stay
- Little Children
- Forever
- End The Rain
- How Will It End
- The Waiting Is Over
Music reviews of Method Actor
Music Review: Unbelievable! A singer who cannot be surpassed-the best!
Rating: 5 Stars
I am a fairly recent fan of Eva Cassidy-I discovered her music and about her life by accident about a year ago. I became curious about the beautiful voice singing Fields of Gold accompanying Michelle Kwan's skating. I then researched her name on the Internet. I have all of her main CD's such as Songbird, Imagine, Live at Blues Alley, etc and so much accolades have been written about these which I concur with, so it was with a little hesitation I bought Method Actor which is less known and has not had equally good reviews. However I was very pleasantly surprised when I listened to this album.To fully understand this album, the context of the original vinyl recording has to be known. Eva was only 25 when she did this recording (although her greatness even shines out brightly at this time). She was merely a part of this band known as Method Actors-she was not singing solo. She was inexperienced and shy at the time but that certainly was not apparent in her outstanding singing.
The soft side of Eva's music is not lacking in this album. Track 7 "Forever"is my favorite (Now, I won't ever be alone because your love is inside of me, and your heart is in my soul). This is the strongest track.
"Look in my Eyes" is another lovely ballad. (Your heart controls my every move when you look into my eyes).
"When it's too late" another wonderful track written by David Christopher who was Eva's high school friend (When it's too late to mend a broken heart, when it's too late to show how much you care)
Track 10 "The Waiting is Over" - great interpretation by Eva (I notice a feeling awaken in my heart the moment my eyes turn to you...the waiting is over forever)
Other good tracks -Laugh with me, Stay, End the rain, How will it end (the beautiful and exquisite voice of Eva Cassidy resounds)
The remaining tracks Getting Out, Little Children are not the soft side of Eva but they show the soul blues part of her which made her into such an unbelievable singer.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the tracks in this album. After reading comments from her fans that she is the greatest singer of our generation, I can very easily see why they believe this. And I know because as I said, I am also a fan. I absolutely recommend Method Actor by Eva Cassidy.
Description of Method Actor
This album was previously only available on vinyl, first time on CD. Front cover contains original illustrations drawn by Eva Cassidy. 2002.Method Actor is to Eva Cassidy's oeuvre what Get That Feeling is to Jimi Hendrix's index of recordings. Never heard of Get That Feeling? Most Hendrix fans haven't either--nor did Hendrix, for that matter. As with Hendrix, Cassidy's posthumous success has inspired a good deal of digging around for vault material. Method Actor originally came out on vinyl in 1988. The work of pedestrian lite rockers, the 10-song set captures Cassidy in the very early stages of a career than would be cut short a mere eight years later. Occasionally the singer's nascent interpretive skills shine through. The sweeping "Look into My Eyes" benefits from Cassidy's soaring vocal. More often then not, however, this is the work of journeymen who happened to cross paths with a star in the making. Completists will find bits and pieces of these first-time-on-CD recordings of interest (the cover art consists of drawings by the singer), but Cassidy enthusiasts will find this sound foreign to the Cassidy they know and love, and will move on, as she did. --Steven Stolder
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