The difficulty that Buckley faced was in producing a second LP that would have been superior to Grace. Judging by the collection of offcuts and demos that were eventually released, Sketches for My ...
When Jeff Buckley died in 1997, a young singer-songwriter’s promising career was cut much too short. He was just 30, and had been working on his second studio album at the time of his accidental ...
Gary Lucas still tingles at the memory. It was the spring of 1991, and at St Ann’s Church in New York, the former Captain Beefheart guitarist was packing up his gear when a stranger approached. “He ...
Jeff Buckley, acclaimed poet and 90s indie-folk musician, would have been 57 on Nov. 17. Buckley is most well-known for his cover of Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” on his album “Grace.” Although ...
1990s revivalism may be entering its dwarf-star phase without ever having shed proper light on itself. Last week, the 22-year-old rapper Vince Staples argued that for his generation, hip-hop's ...
Jeff Buckley released only one album before his death from drowning in 1997 at the age of 30, but the singer-songwriter influenced a generation of musicians, including Coldplay's Chris Martin and ...
The late Jeff Buckley only released one full-length studio album, 1994’s Grace, before his tragic passing in 1997. Since then various Buckley recordings have been posthumously released and now there’s ...
Albums provide the soundtrack to our lives. Invoking a multitude of emotions and reactions — from silent awe to loud excitement and from stankfaces to tears — albums help us endure hard moments, ...
“Dream Brother,” the epic penultimate track on the late, great Jeff Buckley’s lone studio album Grace, is not a song I would have ever selected for an electronic dance remix. But that’s why they pay ...
Jeff Buckley managed to become a legendary artist with only one album under his belt. And I can’t help but wonder where his career would have gone if we hadn’t lost him so soon. The “Hallelujah” ...
Nearly 30 minutes of previously unreleased footage featuring the late Jeff Buckley performing solo at the Middle East in Cambridge, Ma., on Feb. 19, 1994, will be exclusively shown following ...
It's our June member drive! Yet Buckley did share a particular subject position with Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur and Polly Jean Harvey. He was born in 1966 to parents enmeshed in the counterculture. He ...