Songbird cover

[Bm7th]

I though<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CWJvKrceMN0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>t this was well done, good vocals and guitar playing. Christine McVie would be proud!

[michelej1]

[Bit on Marina Pryor in the Maitland Mercury]

http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/2155531/marina-prior-is-returning-to-cessnock/?src=rss

Australian musical star Marina Prior is returning to Cessnock Performing Arts Centre following her performance at the venue in October last year.

This new tour is in support of an upcoming CD box set that features a new single called Songbird, which was written by Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac.

[SteveMacD]

Christine Collister

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[SteveMacD]

Eva Cassidy

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[SteveMacD]

Willie Nelson

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[jcfree]

Eva Cassidy's version of Songbird is beautiful. Got to say, Willie Nelson's version really surprised me, it's very good. His version definately fits his style and is more uptempo, great guitar on it! Great finds!

[michelej1]

Elysa Gardner, USA Today, November 3, 2014

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/11/03/playlist-elysa-gardner-bette-midler-jessie-ware-annie-lennox-john-denver/18186543/

Songbird, Anna Wilson

Wilson rediscovers the aching purity of Christine McVie's enduring ballad, among other tunes, on Jazzbird/Songbird.

[jbrownsjr]

Wow, I was surprised to see the date on that article, Michele.

[michelej1]

[From a Story about Anna Wilson and her album Jazzbird/Songbird]

Scott Iwasaki, The Park Record, July 24, 2015

http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_28534776/wilson-batalla-go-art-pop-big-stars-bright

The jazz songs are inspired by the Great American Songbook and the other half are inspired by the song "Songbird" by Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac.

"I have this songwriter side of me and it's important to me to have that voice as well," Wilson said. "The record is like a journey moving from jazzbird to songbird."

doing this, Wilson got in touch with her first influences, the singers and songwriters from the 1960s and 1970s.

[michelej1]

[From an article on Nerissa More]

Belfast Telegraph By Una Brankin Published 16/01/2016

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/i-used-to-be-painfully-shy-but-now-ive-found-my-voice-34361805.html

Although she has written a couple of songs, Nerissa never sang on a stage before The Voice audition, but she has uploaded her rich rendition of Christine McVie's Songbird from Fleetwood Mac's seminal album Rumours, a song better known to her generation through the late Eva Cassidy's soaring version.

"Aye, I just did that in my living room, not very glamorous," she laughs. "I went from that to singing in The Voice. I saw the application form online and just went for it. I might have looked cool on stage and I was grand all day, but when I had to stand waiting to go on at the side of the stage, I got really nervous. I thought I'd forget all the words and never get through it.

"You've to stand on the stage in silence for about five seconds before you start and it feels like forever. I was a nervous wreck, but once I got into it, it was a real adrenalin rush. I didn't even realise I was through at first, but when I listened back, it wasn't too bad. I'll get to prove myself properly in the battle-of-the-singers part of the show in a few weeks."