Tuesday, June 5, 2012

HOW COULD YOU KEEP FROM SINGING ALONG WITH THIS HEAVENLY GOSPEL CHANT FROM EVA CASSIDY?

This is a first for Lost Treasures, a gospel cover of a traditional hymn which was written by an american Baptist minister by the name of Robert Wadsworth Lowry. The singer is the late great Eva Cassidy, who i rate as the greatest female singer in history, even better than Aretha Franklin, Susan Boyle and Barbara Streisand, who are the other female singers who would make up my Top 4 of them all. Eva died an untimely death at the age of 33, struck down by a melanoma on her head, but not before she had recorded enough brilliant bootleg music to fill six albums which were only stagnatedly released after she died. Pardon me for being in Toogoolawah tonight, i actually left my Eva Cassidy collection at my folk's place in Brisbane, so i dont have the album sleeve here to be able to fill you in on the make-up of her back-up band for the song HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING, but judge for yourself, this is a mezmerisingly magical gospel chant which makes you feel like an angel in heaven, like the brightest star in the universe. Eva Cassidy not only had a great voice, but she had a heart and soul to match. Interestingly, Eva died at the age of 33, the same age that Christ was when he died on the cross.

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