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Eva Cassidy — Wade In The Water
Album: Songbird
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Released: 1998
Length: 3:56
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Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in red?
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white?
Wade in the water
Must be the children of Israelites
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in blue?
Wade in the water
Must be the children that's coming through
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water

You don't believe I've been redeemed
Wade in the water
Just see the Holy Ghost looking for me
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
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Wow, great voice. Then I noticed her 'years'. Jeez.
I was listening to a History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs today, and it was about the last years of Hendrix. I was thinking would I give up a substantial part of my life in exchange for great talent? 
Posted 6 months ago by stevesaw    [ Reply ]
 MysteryMan wrote:


Nonesense. When you have soul and cover with respect and passion then the scar of history heals a little more.

This song is literally "an African American jubilee song, a spiritual—in reference to a genre of music "created and first sung by African Americans in slavery." "  Slavery, ffs!  So, black face should make a come back as long as its done with respect and passion?  Minstrel shows?  C'mon now...
 
Posted 7 months ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
💛🌎🕊
Posted 8 months ago by lwgambill48379    [ Reply ]
Voice of an angel
Posted 1 year ago by Tylersmyler    [ Reply ]
There are some voices out there that are immediately recognizable.   Eva's warm clear soprano is one of them.
Posted 1 year ago by jwallstrom846    [ Reply ]
Right voice.  The right tune.  And an outstanding accompaniment.  What's not to like in this slice of sonic delight?  
Posted 1 year ago by Highlowsel    [ Reply ]
 kasia1podhalanka wrote:

What the heck is playing now??



Some REALLY GOOD music!
Posted 1 year ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Songs done well can be a universal balm.  And this one was surely done well.  
Posted 2 years ago by Highlowsel    [ Reply ]
 sfoster66 wrote:

I'll just say this...that maybe some music should be left to those that have the scars of history on their family trees...



Nonesense. When you have soul and cover with respect and passion then the scar of history heals a little more.
Posted 2 years ago by MysteryMan    [ Reply ]
GREAT GREAT GREAT!!
Posted 2 years ago by pablo2165    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by kasia1podhalanka    [ Reply ]
What the heck is playing now??
Posted 2 years ago by kasia1podhalanka    [ Reply ]
FUCK CANCER
Posted 3 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
I'll just say this...that maybe some music should be left to those that have the scars of history on their family trees...
Posted 3 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
 caregiver wrote:
From Eva's Website:  Support the hardworking musicians in your area by attending live performances. Go out to the little clubs and restaurants that offer live music, and if you like what you hear, tell the performers! Clap long and loud! And if they're selling CDs and tapes from their guitar cases, as Eva once did, support their talents and efforts that way too. As someone once wrote in the Guestbook, "There will never be another Eva Cassidy, but there will be someone else."


This post from eight years ago is a heartfelt sentiment, as we look towards an ending of this pandemic!
Posted 3 years ago by intheworks    [ Reply ]
I hope Wade can swim, especially of God is going to trouble the water.
Posted 3 years ago by kazoo    [ Reply ]
I'm familiar with many musical artists--thousands, maybe? Eva is the only one who I can tell you exactly where I was and who I was with the first time I heard her voice.

She had a disc cut with Chuck Brown, the Father of Go-Go (a DC thing). You couldn't find two people further apart on the musical spectrum and they blended so well. RIP Eva.
Posted 4 years ago by birdman42    [ Reply ]
Stray Cats Strut? 
Posted 4 years ago by SiriusPlissken    [ Reply ]
cool
Posted 4 years ago by chrisjmutch    [ Reply ]
 terrapin52 wrote:
I think she wants me to wade in the water.  I'm not sure.
 
At times the angels (God) would trouble (stir up) the local waters, and then they would have healing power.  You should wade in them during those times for healing.
Posted 5 years ago by lindaurq    [ Reply ]
Love this artist.  Tragic that she passed so young.  Also love the biblical roots of this traditional song
Posted 5 years ago by lindaurq    [ Reply ]
RATHER TASTY ~ Beautiful for a Sunday afternoon!
Sad to know that she has passed away
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Posted 5 years ago by surfrider4life    [ Reply ]
 doublethis wrote:
Why does it seem like dead artists (eva cassiday, nick drake, et al) all rate about 1 or 2 points higher here than comparable living ones?
Just wondering...
 
Maybe it seems that way because that's what you're looking for, sort of like confirmation bias.  Maybe it's true sometimes, the old "no-one-is-so-noble-as-in-death" syndrome, and neither of the artists you named enjoyed very much success during their lifetimes - so there's that.  Anyhow, if it occurs with any regularity, it's probably not a conscious decision of the people doing the ratings.  It is odd how snippy and defensive one of the responses to your question was though.
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 willmcnaught wrote:
RIP Eva, but thank you for leaving us with songs like this. {#Notworthy}

 
Yes, she left us way too early. 
Posted 8 years ago by poetdancer    [ Reply ]
Well, this is some GoooD music! Thank you Bill!!!
Posted 8 years ago by johnybladex    [ Reply ]
RIP Eva, but thank you for leaving us with songs like this. {#Notworthy}
Posted 9 years ago by willmcnaught    [ Reply ]
Previous track - Santana's 'Incident At Neshabur. Lots of comments about how the similarities to some Allman Brothers / Dicky Betts. Also seemed to me more than a shade of Ramsey Lewis and /or Young-Holt Ltd on the keyboards. Following this is Eva with 'Wade in the Water'  - and Ramsey Lewis classic from (around) '66.

 Brilliant, Bill. Just brilliant! 
Posted 9 years ago by Old_Pat    [ Reply ]
She was too good for this world.
Posted 9 years ago by wgsu_1978    [ Reply ]
BRUTAL! Went to her website, looking for tour dates. Sadly, she passed in like '96. Thanks Eva for the music! You left the world more swingin' than you found it. 
Posted 9 years ago by mattrettig    [ Reply ]
Al-frigging-right! Very hot rendition. Nice!
Posted 9 years ago by mattrettig    [ Reply ]
 LizK wrote:
Recognized the voice instantly.  Clear & smooth.

  Yep!


Posted 10 years ago by jktravl    [ Reply ]
Recognized the voice instantly.  Clear & smooth.
Posted 10 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
 Love Eva Cassidy   {#Good-vibes}
Posted 10 years ago by Jannne    [ Reply ]
Preferred the Ramsey Lewis Trio version!
Posted 10 years ago by The_Walrus    [ Reply ]
 jimys wrote:
More Eva, please!!

 
...... yes please
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
great singer, sad story, 33 is too young to die from Melanoma.
Posted 10 years ago by philinnz    [ Reply ]
Eva Cassidy > Madeline Peyroux > Rickie Lee Jones

but I sill loves them all.  
Posted 10 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
I thought for a bit this was Ollabelle. Same style and they always on those gospel and blues standards. 
Soulful Eva.  
Posted 10 years ago by afrixluvguy    [ Reply ]
Any relation to Sean Cassidy?
Posted 11 years ago by iam_overlord    [ Reply ]
 doublethis wrote:
Why does it seem like dead artists (eva cassiday, nick drake, et al) all rate about 1 or 2 points higher here than comparable living ones?
Just wondering...

 
The truth is that I did not make my mind up about EC for some time after she died, as I was afraid of being affected by her death.
But after all of this time, I think she has a lovely, smokey, clear voice and great diction and sang beautiful songs. So I do think she was very good. For what it's worth.
Posted 11 years ago by Rotterdam    [ Reply ]

Posted 11 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
 doublethis wrote:
Why does it seem like dead artists (eva cassiday, nick drake, et al) all rate about 1 or 2 points higher here than comparable living ones?
Just wondering...

 
Probably because she was just flat-out, real-deal excellent.  With this standard of yours, with +2 over-rating for dead artists, are we to guess that good ole' Ludwig Van and Ella were pretty comparable to their peers?

Me thinks that the "comparative quality" of Eva's peers may be perhaps because oh so many of those performers have major production wizardry both before and after they cut songs.  Perhaps many of us are duly impressed w/ Eva's voice and performances because, like Janis Joplin, there's no doubt that her music came from deep down in her soul -- the feelings pour out.  On the Songbird album, even though the entire work is covers, I hear music first created by other artists in a whole new light, and for me that is the mark of a fine, fine artist.
Posted 11 years ago by S-curvy    [ Reply ]
 terrapin52 wrote:
I think she wants me to wade in the water.  I'm not sure.
 

Sometimes I think back about all the blatantly overt signals to me from ladies that I was totally oblivious to at the time.  Kinda like when George Costanza's date asked him up to her apartment for coffee and he declined, saying coffee that late at night would keep him up.
Posted 11 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
Like butta'...{#Cheers}
Posted 11 years ago by nicolewe    [ Reply ]
More Eva, please!!
Posted 11 years ago by jimys    [ Reply ]
 DigitalJer wrote:
Wow, what *power* in that voice
  Yes indeed and the Power comes from ''Emmotion'' and 'Presentation' as opposed to Volume.

Posted 12 years ago by Toke    [ Reply ]
From Eva's Website:  Support the hardworking musicians in your area by attending live performances. Go out to the little clubs and restaurants that offer live music, and if you like what you hear, tell the performers! Clap long and loud! And if they're selling CDs and tapes from their guitar cases, as Eva once did, support their talents and efforts that way too. As someone once wrote in the Guestbook, "There will never be another Eva Cassidy, but there will be someone else."
Posted 12 years ago by caregiver    [ Reply ]
 doublethis wrote:
Why does it seem like dead artists (eva cassiday, nick drake, et al) all rate about 1 or 2 points higher here than comparable living ones?
Just wondering...
 
Because we know we can't rate any more of their music so we just rate the old stuff high because it's great.
Posted 12 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
It seems that she sang so many different genera well that the record producers she sent her material to did not know how they would market an album of her material, so she was turned down several times during her life. She may have been somewhat timid personally, but was fearless musically. It takes a lot of guts to sing a signature song of another singer that is universally familiar such as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" or "Imagine."

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/arts/death-shy-singer-finally-grabs-spotlight-cd-s-carry-eva-cassidy-s-voice-wider.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

https://www.evacassidy.org/eva/harr96.htm
Posted 12 years ago by capzfan    [ Reply ]
She is my favorite singer
Posted 12 years ago by Norberto    [ Reply ]
Soul and beauty. 'Nuff said! {#Umbrella}
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
For a long time I thought this was the work of a classic blues singer from back in the day, someone sublime and surely wildly famous and known to all true blues and jazz aficionados. Then I found out it was our own little Eva from down the street.

I mean down the street as in Blues Alley, DC area. She was someone who mainly sang backup and worked with Chuck Brown and other pioneers, and was barely recognized since she was not in LA or NYC and did not have any "big" names behind her, other than Chuck.

And no, I did not know she died young when I first heard and admired her talent. I hear she died pretty broke.

Posted 13 years ago by salzburg4321    [ Reply ]
I think she wants me to wade in the water.  I'm not sure.
Posted 13 years ago by terrapin52    [ Reply ]
Why does it seem like dead artists (eva cassiday, nick drake, et al) all rate about 1 or 2 points higher here than comparable living ones?
Just wondering...
Posted 13 years ago by doublethis    [ Reply ]
There was a great documentary on PBS the other night about the civil rights movement in the U.S. south and the music that coincided with it. This song was prominently featured.

Posted 13 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
A songbird alright !
Posted 13 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
 Carissa wrote:
I cannot hear anything this woman recorded without getting shivers. (Really good shivers.)
 

Autumn Leaves sends shivers thru my soul.
Posted 13 years ago by paultom84    [ Reply ]
 Ag3nt0rang3 wrote:


Weighed in the water?
 
(Bonnie) Raitt in the water {#Whistle}

Posted 13 years ago by OHMish    [ Reply ]
she s cute!!
Posted 13 years ago by marmoteenha    [ Reply ]
 Tylersmyler wrote:
Of all the amazing (see: Chilling ) Eva songs, why is this the only one he always plays?
 

I agree.
Posted 13 years ago by Rooney    [ Reply ]
 
Oh man, yeah, the amount of soul in her voice could melt the Antarctic.
DigitalJer wrote:
Wow, what *power* in that voice
 


Posted 14 years ago by Karmala    [ Reply ]
Of all the amazing (see: Chilling ) Eva songs, why is this the only one he always plays?
Posted 14 years ago by Tylersmyler    [ Reply ]
Great to hear this track again!  Love Eva

Posted 14 years ago by cafortier    [ Reply ]
This song spent too much time wading in the water. It's downright soggy.
Posted 14 years ago by DoctorHooey    [ Reply ]
 Stefen wrote:

No, no, no.   It's wait in the water.
 

Weighed in the water?


Posted 14 years ago by Ag3nt0rang3    [ Reply ]
I first heard this version on a mixed CD from a friend.  Loved it and listened to it over and over and not until I heard it on RP did I know who sang it. 
Posted 14 years ago by osbyec    [ Reply ]
 EssexTex wrote:
I'm hearing..Weed in the water.  
 
No, no, no.   It's wait in the water.

Posted 14 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
{#Dance}
Posted 14 years ago by jkhandy    [ Reply ]
I'm hearing..Weed in the water.  
Posted 14 years ago by EssexTex    [ Reply ]
Wow, what *power* in that voice
Posted 14 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
I cannot hear anything this woman recorded without getting shivers. (Really good shivers.)
Posted 14 years ago by Carissa    [ Reply ]
 michaelgmitchell wrote:
This woman lived too short a life. Bloody shame. What talent. Lucky for us, she remains with us in memory and song.
 

Couldn't have said it better...{#Cheers}
Posted 15 years ago by evansdad    [ Reply ]
What an amazing voice and she carried that voice on every tune she sang. RIP Eva

Thank you RP for keeping her voice alive.
Posted 15 years ago by SugahBlanco    [ Reply ]
 Kittee wrote:
Sorry, it's too cold to wade in the water this morning. {#Roflol}
 
Especially if you're one of those Great Lakes Swimmers. (Lake Superior, in particular.)
Posted 15 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
I really thought she was singing wait in the water - D'OH! Nice song and basic backing. Lovely voice too. 7 from the Nottingham jury.
Posted 15 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Outstanding!  What a powerful voice she had.  {#Sunny}
Posted 15 years ago by cafortier    [ Reply ]
underrated
bumping up
Posted 15 years ago by Oscar_the_Grouch    [ Reply ]
Fantastic. I am so glad that Eva recorded so much during her short life! She is a beacon for all us white girls who wish we could sing the blues {#Tongue}! She lives forever in memory.

Posted 15 years ago by TheFriendlyCat    [ Reply ]
what a fantastic voice she had we are very fortunate to have her recordings, very hard for me not to give her a 12
Posted 15 years ago by stkman    [ Reply ]
Very tragic and sad story re: Eva's battle with melanoma. :(

Great trumpet solo on this tune...
Posted 16 years ago by Tim_in_N_FL    [ Reply ]
 wade44 wrote:
OK, I'll get in the water.
 


Posted 16 years ago by NoEnzLefttoSplit    [ Reply ]
Sorry, it's too cold to wade in the water this morning. {#Roflol}
Posted 16 years ago by Kittee    [ Reply ]
 Cruithne3753 wrote:
(Needs fingersnapping emoticon)
 

I second that request!
Posted 16 years ago by philbertr    [ Reply ]
OK, I'll get in the water.
Posted 16 years ago by wade44    [ Reply ]
memorable voice & talent   -   8  /  9.
Posted 16 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
 Misterfixit wrote:
Her last performance at Blues Alley was .... indescribably wonderful and tragic at the same time.
 
From Wiki:

In 1993, Cassidy had a malignant mole removed from her back. Three years later, during a promotional event for the Live at Blues Alley album in July 1996, Cassidy noticed an ache in her hips, which she attributed to stiffness from painting murals while perched atop a stepladder.<11> The pain persisted and a few weeks later, X-rays revealed that the melanoma had spread to her lungs and bones. The doctors gave her three to five months to live. Cassidy opted for aggressive treatment, but her health deteriorated rapidly.<3> In her final public performance in September 1996, at the Bayou, she closed the set with "What a Wonderful World" in front of an audience of friends, fans and family.<18>She was subsequently admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital.<11>

Cassidy died at her family home in Bowie, November 2, 1996, at the age of 33. She was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Washington Area Music Association.<19> According to her wishes, Cassidy’s body was cremated. Her ashes were scattered on the shores of St. Mary's River Watershed Park, a nature reserve near California, Maryland.<3>

—————-

Wow, that IS sad! 
Posted 16 years ago by chirpie    [ Reply ]
Her last performance at Blues Alley was .... indescribably wonderful and tragic at the same time.
Posted 16 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
Personally, I prefer the Ramsey Lewis version. But that's just me.
Posted 16 years ago by sub-arctic    [ Reply ]
I'm not that big a fan of this song, otherwise I would have ranked it much higher, since Eva Cassidy sings it so beatifully
Posted 16 years ago by bhudevi    [ Reply ]
cutlertm wrote:
My cousin wrote this song for "The Arctics" last summer. Totally amazing that Cassidy covers it.
Kidder! You caught in that time warp again? Don't ya hate it when that happens?
Posted 16 years ago by inindian    [ Reply ]
This woman lived too short a life. Bloody shame. What talent. Lucky for us, she remains with us in memory and song.
Posted 16 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
(Needs fingersnapping emoticon)
Posted 16 years ago by Cruithne3753    [ Reply ]
Wow. That horn solo gave me a "Minnie the Moocher" / Cab Calloway vibe. That's fine by me.
Posted 16 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Never heard of her until now. Great Jazz phrasing. Cool.
Posted 16 years ago by earthbased    [ Reply ]
Ok, I'm a bit biased being from the DC area where Eva played regularly. If you think this lacks "soul" check out live at blues alley album. She was on her way up when she passed. Had she lived, I wonder if she could have been given the opportunity to fame ala Nora Jones.....
Posted 16 years ago by jktravl    [ Reply ]
"Time passes. I think it's time to let it go. There are plenty of other things to get angry about these days." Couldn't of said it better. Nice tune.
Posted 17 years ago by shuttlecr    [ Reply ]
How nice to Eva's voice again. She was a wonderful singer...such a natural voice.
Posted 17 years ago by peyotecoyote    [ Reply ]
I really love Eva Cassidy, and her voice is wonderful. I am sorry that this cover offends some people, but I love the song, and think it is beautiful, no matter who sings it. Even though I'm also a white, middle class girl, I love to sing this song too, just because it is beautiful and touching.
Posted 17 years ago by TheFriendlyCat    [ Reply ]
I prefer The Chambers Brothers' version, but this is nice and gritty .... RIP Eva!
Posted 17 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
Wow! A double-helping of Eva in one day. Nice treat, Bill!!
Posted 17 years ago by Ximinez    [ Reply ]
*bump* lmic wrote:
Nothing against her, but I kinda prefer the Ramsey Lewis version.
I wanted to add that I was a bit put off by Ms. Cassidy at first, as this was the only one of her songs I'd heard (here, on RP). A friend just introduced me to the album, however, and I must say... it's outstanding. Amazing voice, soulful delivery. All covers, but she re-makes them afresh - renders "contemporary" tunes like Sting's "Fields of Gold" as modern standards, if that's not all a complete mass of contradiction, LOL
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
Not too bad, but I am missing Ramsey Lewis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Lewis)...
Posted 17 years ago by Nabla    [ Reply ]
cutlertm wrote:
My cousin wrote this song for "The Arctics" last summer. Totally amazing that Cassidy covers it.
Your cousin must be a 250 year old african-american because Wade in The Water is a Traditional AA Spiritual that has been covered by just about everyone. Ironically enough I also wrote Wade In The Water just about the same time I wrote Happy Birthday and Row Row Row Your Boat. Please send all ASCAP payments to:
Posted 17 years ago by 007fletch    [ Reply ]
cutlertm wrote:
My cousin wrote this song for "The Arctics" last summer. Totally amazing that Cassidy covers it.
You sure? Eva died in 1996.
Posted 17 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
My cousin wrote this song for \"The Arctics\" last summer. Totally amazing that Cassidy covers it.
Posted 17 years ago by cutlertm    [ Reply ]
werner wrote:
Great, especially that "dirty" trumpet, but also a nice voice.
Re the comments about the subject of the song: I have a lot more trouble with Armstrong's song than this one. She sounds great, and it's a great song. As a footnote, it appears Armstrong had a lot more trouble with his song too.
Posted 17 years ago by meydele    [ Reply ]
there are many other eva covers that I like better, but her voice transends
Posted 17 years ago by eastcoast    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
I have a problem rating this. I find it difficult to accept this being sung by a white, middle-class lounge style singer (RIP) when it is a traditional Negro slave song, originally purposed to teach the kids that the only 'safe' way out of the slave farm was by wading through the river to lose the scent for the tracking dogs. If only it was a different song. I'll give it 4 as just about acceptable.
Good background information on this song. REALLY interesting. However, you'll probably be even more upset to know that my old guitar teacher, Harvey Mandel, uses this as his signature tune and covered it on a couple albums back when albums still existed. Time passes. I think it's time to let it go. There are plenty of other things to get angry about these days.
Posted 17 years ago by rgrace    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
I have a problem rating this. I find it difficult to accept this being sung by a white, middle-class lounge style singer (RIP) when it is a traditional Negro slave song, originally purposed to teach the kids that the only 'safe' way out of the slave farm was by wading through the river to lose the scent for the tracking dogs. If only it was a different song. I'll give it 4 as just about acceptable.
Still hung up about slavery?
Posted 17 years ago by meloman    [ Reply ]
davin wrote:
Well, I don't know. While I am sensitive to race issues (I am a minority in, shall we say, a majority city), I have no problem with Eva's respectful cover of an important song. On the other hand, this song has been overplayed, so I'm giving it a 3. Blah!
Posted 17 years ago by Barman    [ Reply ]
Her voice is still very beautiful. I think beautiful music can reach across barriers.
Posted 17 years ago by amandamustdance    [ Reply ]
flaccid jazz
Posted 17 years ago by DoctorHooey    [ Reply ]
Something tells me that you'd blow a gasket if someone said the same thing about a black singer covering a song traditionally sung by white folks. algrif wrote:
I have a problem rating this. I find it difficult to accept this being sung by a white, middle-class lounge style singer (RIP) when it is a traditional Negro slave song, originally purposed to teach the kids that the only 'safe' way out of the slave farm was by wading through the river to lose the scent for the tracking dogs. If only it was a different song. I'll give it 4 as just about acceptable.
Posted 17 years ago by rockasaurus    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
I have a problem rating this. I find it difficult to accept this being sung by a white, middle-class lounge style singer (RIP) when it is a traditional Negro slave song, originally purposed to teach the kids that the only 'safe' way out of the slave farm was by wading through the river to lose the scent for the tracking dogs. If only it was a different song. I'll give it 4 as just about acceptable.Posted 17 years ago by rockasaurus    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
I have a problem rating this. I find it difficult to accept this being sung by a white, middle-class lounge style singer (RIP) when it is a traditional Negro slave song, originally purposed to teach the kids that the only 'safe' way out of the slave farm was by wading through the river to lose the scent for the tracking dogs. If only it was a different song. I'll give it 4 as just about acceptable.
Well, I don't know. While I am sensitive to race issues (I am a minority in, shall we say, a majority city), I have no problem with Eva's respectful cover of an important song. On the other hand, this song has been overplayed, so I'm giving it a 3. Blah!
Posted 17 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
Sounds a bit like Laura Nyro here.
Posted 17 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
I'm thirsty...
Posted 17 years ago by LizDeines    [ Reply ]
My only problem with this is that it's sort of lame and ho-hum, not that it's a politically-incorrect ripoff. Sure, the horn solo is nice, but the setting is lounge sans soul. The song is a spine-chilling eternal classic 10. This cover is a weak 3.
Posted 17 years ago by dionysius    [ Reply ]
algrif wrote:
I have a problem rating this. I find it difficult to accept this being sung by a white, middle-class lounge style singer (RIP) when it is a traditional Negro slave song, originally purposed to teach the kids that the only 'safe' way out of the slave farm was by wading through the river to lose the scent for the tracking dogs. If only it was a different song. I'll give it 4 as just about acceptable.
so what only traditional NEGRO slaves, or BLACKS can sing this song...puuuuuuhleeeeese. its about the music,REMEMBER. BTW i loved the dirty horn sound too. Nice work!!
Posted 17 years ago by xs9095    [ Reply ]
Nothing against her, but I kinda prefer the Ramsey Lewis version.
Posted 17 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]