the birthday boy, john van tiel, wrote: <<6. Eva Cassidy - Songbird I review albums for a Dutch music magazine. This was sent to me way before she was as popular as she was now. I remember doing what I always did. I put the album in the tray, pushed the Play button and walked back to my chair to listen. I stopped in mid-stride. What the hell was this? Eva singing Fields of Gold. I went back, totally stunned, pushed Stop, walked to my chair, took the remote and pushed Play again ... Since then I must have given at least 30 copies as presents to people.>> and again, i scream in anguish. i have purchased this disc six times. six. i have purchased it in a big CD warehouse larger than a football field. i have purchased it in an intimate CD boutique. i have purchased it at the local hippie record store, which has a few CDs for those of us heretics who have shunned vinyl. i have purchased it in alabama and in mississippi. all six copies have had this enormously irritiating hiss that sounds as though my speakers were salvaged from a chevy nova. why, oh why???? am i forever destined to hear *about* eva cassidy and never *hear* eva cassidy? and i've been *such* a good girl, too! <pout> cindy
