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Message: [QUOTE="meyers7, post: 4999481, member: 343"] She covered a song by a songwriter named Doug MacLeod called Nightbird. Here's what he had to say about it. [I]I have a couple of favorites[/I] (covers of his songs). [I]One was Eva Cassidy’s version of Nightbird. That song is about a prostitute, a prostitute that I used to live with who really watched out for me. I have no idea if Eva Cassidy knew what that song was about and I never hear it until my wife played it for me during a drive to Los Angeles from San Luis Opisbo. I’m a huge baseball fan, and my team, the Cardinals from St. Louis, were playing the Dodgers and I wanted to listen to the game. My wife said “I got something for you to hear?”, and I said, “But the Cardinals are on” and she said “This is more important than the Cardinals” and she put this CD on of Eva Cassidy. I tell you, it moved me so much, I pulled over to the side of the road and I was weeping. I have never done that song again. When people ask me to do Nightbird, I tell them that if they want to hear THE version, she is the one to listen to. And then of course she died before I got a chance to meet her and ask her how she interpreted it like that.[/I] [MEDIA=youtube]K-X1g-aEeNc[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]