American Tune (album) explained

American Tune
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Eva Cassidy
Cover:	Eva_Cassidy_-_American_Tune.jpg
Released:	August 12, 2003
Genre:	Adult Alternative
Length:	40:04
Label:	Blix Street
Producer:	Chris Biondo
Prev Title:	Imagine
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	Wonderful World
Next Year:	2004

American Tune is an album of rehearsal tapes and live recordings by American singer Eva Cassidy, released in 2003, seven years after her death in 1996. It was her second album of mainly live material and her third posthumous album. American Tune spent five weeks on the U.S. Billboard Top 200, and was a UK number one album.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Writing for Sing Out! magazine, Jamie Anderson calls every song on the album "a gem...either remaining true to the original song or presenting the piece in a new way without syrupy trappings".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Drowning in the Sea of Love" [live] (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) – 4:19
2. "True Colors" [live] (Thomas Kelly, Billy Steinberg) – 4:50
3. "The Water Is Wide" [live] (Traditional) – 4:20
4. "Hallelujah I Love Him So" (Ray Charles) – 2:33
5. "God Bless the Child" [live] (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 5:17
6. "Dark Eyed Molly" [live] (Archie Fisher) – 3:28
7. "American Tune" [live] (Paul Simon) – 4:06
8. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" [live] (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 2:23
9. "Yesterday" (Lennon–McCartney) – 3:09
10. "You Take My Breath Away" [live] (Claire Hamill) – 5:39

Personnel

• Eva Cassidy – guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
• Chris Biondo – bass
• Jimmy Campbell – drums
• Dan Cassidy – violin
• Keith Grimes – electric guitar
• Marcy Marxer – bouzouki, guitar, tin whistle
• Raice McLeod – drums
• Bruno Nasta – violin
• Lenny Williams – organ, piano

Production

• Producer: Chris Biondo
• Engineers: Chris Biondo, Cathy Fink, Bryan McCulley
• Mastering: Robert Vosgien
• Technical assistance: Brian Grant
• Arranger: Eva Cassidy
• Overdubs: Marcy Marxer, Geoff Gillette
• Sequencing: Bill Straw
• Design: Eileen White
• Photography: Chris Biondo
• Drawing: Eva Cassidy
• Liner notes: Martin Jennings
• Compilation: Bill Straw

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

1. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/all_albums_album.php?id=929 No. 1 albums
2. Eva Cassidy. Billboard.
3. Anderson, Jamie. "Eva Cassidy American Tune." Sing Out! Spring 2004: 140.
4. Web site: End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2003. Official Charts Company. February 11, 2021.