CHICAGO TRIBUNE REVIEW: Linda Eder Hits A Personal Best With ‘If You See Me’

Was it possible that a voice this huge and luxuriant was being applied not to the pop trivialities of the moment but to timeless American songwriting made famous by the likes of Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett? Could it be that an emerging singer, who attracted a small audience to her unheralded Chicago debut, was bringing a fiercely personal perspective to music of the Gershwins, Jule Styne and Paul Simon, as well as more contemporary, Sondheimesque fare?