Contact

If you have comments you think might be of interest to other visitors to this site, please post them to the forum. On the other hand, if you do not think your comments or enquiries are of general interest, feel free to contact either of us by mail.

If your comments or questions are concerned with transcriptions etc., you are welcome to contact either of us. However, if your enquiry is concerned with the website, you should contact Henrik. Please click a name below to mail either of us:

Henrik Thiil Nielsen
(webmaster/co-transcriber)

Torbjörn Skobe
(transcriber)

 

Thanks

We are delighted to have Elaine Stonebraker's permission to use her lovely photograph of Eva on our welcome page. Thank you very much, Elaine. As most of you probably know, the photograph also graces the Songbird CD inlay. We are also grateful to Blix Street Records founder and CEO Bill Straw for giving his acceptance to our use of the image. Thanks also for help in this matter (as in so much else) to Laura Bligh. Graphical adaptation of photograph by Torbjörn, typography by Henrik.

A big thank you to Matt for his permission to incorporate his many tabs of Eva songs into the site and for his generous assistance in evaluating various 'third party' tabs. You will find the original versions of most of his tabs in the files section of the Yahoo Eva Cassidy newsgroup. Matt tells me he took his Yahoo moniker 'top_of_the_world25' from the title of the song 'Top of the World' by Patty Griffin, 'an amazing singer/songwriter/guitarist/pianist with a beautiful voice and very moving lyrics'. Your webmaster is so old he thought Matt got the moniker from the well-known Carpenters song!

Steve Estes kindly prepared chords for his NLYG and let me upload them to the site. Thank you very much indeed, Steve. My regards to you and Leila. I am indebted to Michael Ingram who mailed me lyrics for his song Baggage (see 'Stray songs'). Jeff Muller, thank you so much for mailing me a corrected version of the lyrics to 'Maman Marie' ('Stray songs'). Check out that guy's song writing!

Many thanks to monsieur Sylvain Roca ('sroca' in the Yahoo Eva Cassidy group) for permission to use the tabs for ANS, IWIWASGA and TAT that he has uploaded to the group's file section. My attempts to contact former (?) Yahoo Eva Cassidy group member 'kiwibird302' have so far met with no result. Kiwibird, I hope you do not mind I took the liberty to incorporate your tabs for AL and WITW into this site. I was also unable get in touch with Phil Adams. I hope he would have okayed my use of his tab for OTR. Adrian J. Beattie, Northern Ireland, thank you so much for allowing me to incorpotrate your tab for 'Fields Of Gold' into the site and for mailing me revisions to the intro! And thanks also to 'terrorvision_babe' for permission to use his chords for Anniversary Song. Many thanks to Dre from Holland for extra tabs for AL, OTR, S, TAT and TW. These are now uploaded to the site and accessible from links found in the notes to the songs in question. Yves Benisty, merci beaucoup for supplying karaoke files for EMR (Imagine) and IDMA (Imagine). Marcin Zreda of Poland, thank you for supplying chords for PTMN (TAT). Stuart Lowe, New Zealand, thank you for letting me use your tab for IWBAB (TAT). Stuart, I hope you don't mind I have also included your tabs for ATL (TAT), ICOBM and I. (I.) Marta from Poland, I haven't gotten in touch with you yet, but I hope you do not mind I have used your tab for KS (TAT). Thanks! And Susan Lützner, Denmark, thanks for chords/scores for FAM and AL (LABA), NYLSB (EBH), TAT (TAT), and HILHS (AT).

When I told Paul Limbrick that Torbjörn and I had transcribed the lyrics for all the Eva Cassidy songs we could lay our hands on, he suggested that we make the results of our labors available to other Eva fans. So it is fair to say that this website owes its existence to him. Thank you, Paul.

In our work with the transcriptions we have benefited from the assistance of a number of fellow-Cassidists and people who knew Eva: Mona Skobe, Laura Bligh, Paul Limbrick, Lynn (essseus of the Yahoo Eva Cassidy newsgroup), Steven Digman, David Christopher, Chris Arscott, and Eileen White, who has in turn on several occasions drawn on Chris Biondo, Chuck Brown, and Mary Ann Redmond. Thanks, all of you. Chris Arscott kindly provided background on IWBAB (TAT). We are grateful to Kelly for mailing us corrections to the lyrics to several songs.

Jenny, your enthusiasm, praise and constructive criticism are much appreciated! Thanks also to the members of the Yahoo Eva Cassidy group, especially 'martlet530' (Scott from Stone Mountain), 'closetcomposer' and 'essseus', for your many interesting and informative messages. Thank you, Julian Thurgood, for adding my site to DMOZ Open Directory. Bettina Fürstenberg and Signe Trier, I am glad you let me check and fix stylesheets for IE5 for Mac on your Macs (this is work in progress).

Tom Goldfogle and Laura, tons of kudos to you for making my walls prettier!

Chris and Eileen, you guys rock!

 

Copyright

Most of the songs Eva performed are under copyright. The lyrics are presented here purely for educational purposes and for purposes of research. The design, coding and maintenance of this site are a non-profit endeavor undertaken to honor the memory of a great singer and for the enlightenment of her fans. Wherever possible we have provided links to sites with information about originators of lyrics and music, including the official or personal web sites of such originators. In some cases these web sites function as online outlets for the artists' recordings. We hope many of our visitors will avail themselves of the opportunity to order such records.

 

ToDo

We need hardly say that we will endeavor to correct any errors to which you may alert us. It is also our intention to carry out various improvements and additions to the site along the way. Among these may be mentioned...

• adding still more items to the Stray songs section
• stating date of writing for each song where this can be established. This has only been done in a few cases
• adding further links to Laura's Eva Cassidy Web Site wherever appropriate
• adding further links to Paul's Eva Cassidy Song By Song wherever appropriate
• completing the pages of general information about each album
• adding a Visitor's Guide page
• adding a Fragments section with lyrics of songs of which only sound bites have been released
• finish optimizing the layout and font choices for Internet Explorer 5.2 for Macintosh
• optimizing the site for voice browser access for the hard of sight

Several further enhancements to the site are under consideration. These may or may not see the light of day:

• a dynamic and searchable Timeline of events in Eva's life and posthumous career
• a page with Today's Tip
• a nifty thing you may want to download and install on your computer
• adding dedicated print layout to the site
• support for alternative stylesheets
• adding a site design that works well in mobile phones and small devices

If you have any suggestions for other improvements to the site, don't hesitate to let us know through the Forum, or click Contact above (or in the menu) to send us a mail with your suggestions or comments. Please remember that all correspondence concerned with site design should be directed to Henrik, while enquiries and comments dealing with the lyrics and transcriptions themselves may be directed to either Torbjörn or Henrik.

 

Techie talk

This site was designed with the following standard monitor resolutions in mind: 1280x1024, 1152x864, 1024x768 and 800x600.
The design assumes a client system with the following fonts in order of preference, where percentages indicate the frequency with which these fonts were found installed on Windows systems as of May 3, 2004, according to CodeStyle's Windows font survey:

Lyrics, at >800x600: Century Schoolbook (39.71%), Century (freq.?), Georgia (80.5%), Garamond (71.11%), Trebuchet MS (88.67%), Book Antiqua (76.85%).
Lyrics, at 800x600: Arial (91.72%).
Notes to lyrics, at >800x600: Times New Roman (77.79%), Garamond, Courier New (92.26%), Book Antiqua, Arial Narrow (83.44%).
Notes to lyrics, at 800x600: Arial.
Text in Site notes section: as lyrics.
Menus (side and top), all resolutions: Verdana (92.9%).
Headings in Site notes section: as menus.

Alternative font choices will soon be provided for lyrics and notes at 800x600.

The site should work and look more or less OK in recent versions of the following Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera, though there are still layout problems with Internet Explorer on Mac and Linux.

 

Wanted

If you come across any tabs to which we have not already included links, we would be glad if you would mail us a link to them. And if you yourself tab an Eva song, we would of course be delighted to include a link to your tab.