EVA CASSIDY TELLS THE STORY OF A BOLD YOUNG FARMER

The late EVA CASSIDY left behind a beautiful and wonderful musical legacy, like so many great artists of any definition it was only after her tragic and untimely death in 1996 at age 33 from a melanoma that she become famous, but somehow or another i think her spirit is alive and well in some other place.

Amazingly Eva managed to put enough demos to reel with and without her backing band to have six albums released after her death, which more often than not included bass guitarist CHRIS BIONDO and quite regularly as well guitarist KEITH GRIMES, who tended to participate more on Eva's more blues and R&B orientated tunes.

With argubaly the most versatile and crystal clear voice of any woman ever born on the planet, Eva Cassidy had the ability to transform the most humdrum and mediocre folk standard into something with deep and awe inspiring spirituality with virtually no musical accompanyment, just her voice and some lightweight picking on an acoustic guitar.

Without a doubt, i like her blues, jazzy and souped up gospel recordings more than her folk ones, but A BOLD YOUNG FARMER off the final ever Eva Cassidy album SOMEWHERE is simply breathtaking in my book, and it's very folky, so she must sing this song well, because folk is not usually my cup of tea.

The song tells the story of a woman with very deep regrets about passing up the man she really loved for another man, and years later, regretting it and wishing he could have been the father of her children. Maybe i can relate to the feeling of not wanting to be that man in the song one day myself, that might explain why i connect with it. A BOLD YOUNG FARMER was recorded in Chris Biondo's home studio in Maryland in 1995, the year before Eva passed away.