Jeff Buckley - Gunshot Glitter (Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk) |jt1674

For Gary Lucas . . . .  

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Jeff Buckley - THREE PIECES | TREON TO Gary Lucas

Jeff Buckley: Live On KCRW 1994

Morning Becomes Eclectic & Man In The Moon Sessions 1994  | The Right Ear of Nash /Far Out Magazine on Live at Sin-e

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Two radio sessions from Jeff Buckley, performed for KCRW in 1994. Both sessions have been recorded from the stream on the KCRW website.

Jeff Beckley - Live on KCRW 1994 - HERE

Tracklist:
Morning Becomes Eclectic Session (28.07.94)
01 - Intro
02 - Chocolate/Mojo Pin
03 - Interview
04 - Corpus Christi Carol
05 - Grace
06 - Interview
07 - So Real
08 - Lover, You Should've Come Over

Man In The Moon Session (25.01.94)
09 - Grace
10 - Interview
11 - I Against I (Bad Brains Cover)
12 - Interview
13 - Lover, You Should've Come Over
14 - Interview
15 - Last Goodbye
16 - Interview
17 - Strange Fruit

the wonderful Gary Lucas recently mentioned his work and friendship with the stellar Jeff Buckley ( Gary co-wrote two of Jeff’s greatest works IMHO, ‘Grace' the title track of his sole album whilst he was alive and  ‘Mojo Pin’ the two opening tracks on Live at Sin-é - see below) so both of these really worth exploring

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Live at Sin-é: Watch the shows that launched Jeff Buckley

As Jeff Buckley gained the courage to put his music out there, his residency at New York's Sin-é made him a star and directly led to the creation of 'Grace'.

Jeff Buckley - The Way Young Lovers Do (Live at Sin-é)

 FOR GARY LUCAS . . . . 

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GRACE - JEFF BUCKLEY

 Don’t think I will ever not re-post this when it pops up and jt1674 posted it this morning . . . . . . I was heartbroken and shocked when he drowned and the tragedy of the loss of his father was just too cruel it seemed. Imagine what great things he would have gone on to create and Gary Lucas re-aquaints me with this fact all the time . . . they played together on the first album and all the better for it! Stunning creative genius . . . . . 

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Jeff Buckley E.P. - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun (feat. Elisabeth Fraser) REMASTERED | The Right Ear Of Nash

This is nice and we don’t often featured downloads from TREON but we should and this is why!

Jeff Buckley: All Flowers In Time EP 

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A Six track collection featuring remastered tracks from Rarities From NYC by Jeff Buckley.

 

Notes:

Track 01: A new remaster for 2024 using the same source as found in "Rarities From NYC".

Track 02: A new track not featured on the blog before.

Track 03: Same track that featured on "Rarities From NYC" but from new lossless source.

Track 04: A new remaster for 2024 using a new higher quality source.

Track 05: A new remaster for 2024 using a new higher quality source.

Track 06: A new remaster for 2024 using the same source as found in "Rarities From NYC".

 

Tracklist: 

01 - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun (with Elizabeth Fraser)

02 - Forget Her (Radio Edit)

03 - Sky Blue Skin (Demo)

04 - Lover, You Should've Come Over (Live On Idiot's Delight WXRK 17.12.95)

05 - I Woke Up In A Strange Place (Live On Idiot's Delight WXRK 17.12.95)

06 - Last Goodbye (WHFS Radio Promo Version) 

If you’re a Buckley fan (who isn’t? if you’re not get outta here!) then this is for you a remastered version of this classic little set

CLASSICS Revisited | JEFF BUCKLEY | Jeff Beckly - GRACE - The Late Show 1995

 

Jeff Buckley, one of the most hauntingly beautiful voices of the 1990s, left an indelible mark on the world of music with his profound lyrics and angelic voice. Born in 1966 in Anaheim, California, Jeff came from a musical lineage. His father, Tim Buckley, was an acclaimed folk-rock singer, but Jeff’s relationship with him was distant. Despite this, music ran deep in Jeff's veins, and he carved out a unique path that combined soul, rock, and folk, all wrapped in the raw emotion that became his signature sound.

Buckley’s reflections on life, like his famous quote, “I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate,” offer a glimpse into his deeply philosophical and introspective nature. Buckley was not just a musician—he was a poet who saw the world through a lens that many people longed to understand. His music, especially his 1994 debut album Grace, is a testament to this worldview, combining his intricate guitar work with poignant, emotional lyrics that often seemed to reflect the beauty he found in both joy and pain.

The 1990s were a pivotal era for music, defined by the grunge movement, alternative rock, and the rise of singer-songwriters who focused more on emotional depth than polished pop production. Buckley found himself in this world, yet stood apart. He did not belong to any specific genre or trend. Instead, he created his own space, which allowed him to be authentically himself. Tracks like “Hallelujah,” his stunning rendition of Leonard Cohen’s classic, showcased his ability to transform songs into deeply personal experiences. It was not just his technical ability as a singer or musician that captivated audiences, but the way his voice and lyrics carried an otherworldly, almost spiritual quality.

His music often reflected his personal struggles and inner conflicts. For Jeff, there was beauty even in moments of pain, frustration, and doubt, a sentiment he often expressed. His quote about being awake to the poetry of the moment, even in places one might hate, encapsulates a mindset of presence and awareness that he lived by. Jeff Buckley was someone who refused to numb himself to life’s complexities. Instead, he embraced them fully, finding meaning in every facet of existence—whether it was performing for a packed audience or wandering alone through the streets of New York.

Buckley’s life was tragically cut short when, in 1997, at just 30 years old, he drowned in the Wolf River in Tennessee. His death shocked the music world, leaving a void that has never quite been filled. Though his career was brief, the legacy of his music continues to influence generations of artists. Fans still revisit Grace and his posthumously released recordings, searching for the layers of meaning woven into his lyrics and melodies.

The message Jeff Buckley left behind was one of mindfulness and awareness of life’s fleeting, yet beautiful moments. In a world that can often feel overwhelming and chaotic, his words and music serve as a reminder to slow down and find the poetry in every experience, no matter how mundane or difficult. He saw beauty where others saw struggle, and through his art, he invited listeners to do the same.

Jeff Buckley’s influence continues to resonate, not only because of his unmatched musical talent but because of his ability to articulate the human experience with such tenderness and vulnerability. His legacy is that of a true artist—one who lived deeply, loved fiercely, and created with an honesty that continues to touch the hearts of many.

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Jeff Buckley - Grace | BBC | The Late Show | London | 1/17/1995

Rarity of The Week : Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun

 

Unreleased (unfinished) acoustic track by Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser. Recorded sometime around 1995-1996.

Jeff Buckley drowned in the river Mississippi the evening of the 29th May 1997 in a spot called Wolf River Harbour 

Elizabeth

From 1994 to 1995, Buckley had an intense relationship with Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins. They wrote and recorded a duet together, "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun", which has never been released commercially.

*NB Buckley's autopsy showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in his system, and the death was ruled an accidental drowning after being pulled under the water by the force of the wake of the tugboat. The official Jeff Buckley website published a statement saying his death was neither mysterious nor a suicide.

VINCE MARTIN - If the Jasmine Don't Get You ... The Bay Breeze Will - Plain & Fancy

 

      Well here's a delight . . . . . . . you know how someone used to burst into your house with an album under their arm and say "Hey, listen you really gotta hear this!" and you put another disc on the record player and sat back and got lost in reverie . . . . . it happened for me with John Sebastian, Tim Buckley (and his son Jeff) and Fred Neil and many more . . . . . people we hadn't necessarily heard of and another vinyl album hit the deck and we were gone . . . . . . so Plain and Fancy has done us proud with this latest posting with this from Vince Martin who I confess I had never heard of! But downloaded anyway and what it pleasure it has proved  . . . my song of the day must be his Snow Shadows and the Rockasteria provides his usual interesting notes to boot:

"Vince Martin first emerged in the late 1950s as a folk-blues singer around Greenwich Village...of the tendency which kind of avoided the academic approach. A friend of commercial folk-pop group The Tarriers, he was the lead singer on their 'Cindy Oh, Cindy' 45, a monster hit and one of the first real big successes to emerge from the Folk Boom. Vince, lending not only a gritty edge of authenticity, but a note of wistful yearning no amount of study can bring, in the early 1960s, gravitated toward the intense club nights presented by black activist and broadside editor, Len Chandler. Starting a celebrated partnership with fellow maverick Fred Neil which stretched over live appearances which influenced a generation, David Crosby, Mama Cass, Richie Havens, you name them... and cutting an acclaimed and now-classic album for Elektra.

It was Vince who started the to-ing and fro-ing of the folk scene players between Greenwich Village and Florida's Coconut Grove (*see below), a place he discovered by chance in 1961, later immortalized in a song by Fred Neil covered by everyone. All of this is perfectly captured on Vince Martin's 1969 album, If the Jasmine Don't Get You ... The Bay Breeze Will, one of that decade's overlooked gems, and a record whose title truly says it all, and whose time has come. From the opening cut, 'Snow Shadows,' the sound is an airy blend of folk spirit and rock dynamics. Softly brushed drums push forward behind propulsive flat-picked twin acoustic guitars; Martin's high tenor sings of romantic loss, quivering over the lines 'Stumbling through the snow..../Nothing waitin' for me like I'm leaving behind..../Cities are meant for leaving before I get too black and blue.' 

As the song builds, the drummer dramatically downshifts, cracking his snare with a full stick. Martin's voice in turns seems to lift off with a thrilling effect, soaring, as he croons, 'Heading south without you like a wild bird flying blind/Someone should have told me I'd never go home.' Produced by infamous A&R man/producer Nickolas Venet at Capitol's studio in Nashville, Tennessee, this record came in out on Capitol releases which included Euphoria, Gandalf, and Karen Dalton's self titled album... strange company indeed"

Musicians:

*Vince Martin - Vovcals, Guitar

**Charles R. McCoy - Harmonica

*Fred F. Carter, Jr. - Guitar

*Henry P. Strzelecki - Bass

*John Buck Wilkin - Guitar

**Kenneth Buttrey - Drums

*Lloyd Green - Dobro, Steel Guitar

*Murrey M. Harman, Jr. - Drums

Snow Shadows

* Fred Neil, John Sebastian, Vince Martin (and others) - 'Dolphins' at The Coconut Grove

From The Rolling Coconut Revue, August 2nd, 1976, Coconut Grove, Florida. The only known footage of Fred Neil in existence... Fred Neil- Vocals, Guitar Vince Martin- Backing Vocals, Guitar John Sebastian- Harmonica Bobby Ingram- Guitar Pete Childs- Slide Guitar Pete Seiler- Bass

Musician Vince Martin talks about his first job, how he got his stage name and his 1956 hit song with The Tarriers (Alan Arkin, Eric Darling, Bob Cary), Cindy Oh Cindy. Interview recorded in Brooklyn, September 14th & 15th, 2009. 

Coming soon : "Tear Down The Walls: An Album by Martin & Neil", where Vince and old friend Bob Ingram will talk about the seminal 1964 Elektra recording that inspired the Folk-Rock movement.

** noting that it was Charlie McCoy and Kenney Buttrey who featured on Bob Dylan's 'John Wesley

Harding' album

 Thanks, Marios

 SONG OF THE DAY

"CRUEL"

GODS & MONSTERS

Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas

After checking out the Interview with Gary Lucas that Aquarium Drunkard featured recently it showcased this video and it is really worth a visit not least to see a v young Jeff Buckley but its a fine number and Gary's guitar work is exceptional here from 1992 in the Knitting Factory NYC

the notes say 

Jeff Buckley performing with Gary Lucas' Band, Gods and Monsters at the Knitting Factory in New York City on 22 March 1992. Notes: With Gods & Monsters, Live from The Knitting Factory. This show was broadcast on WFMU radio and hosted by Nick Hill from inside the venue - you can see him during the video with his headphones and broadcast mic. It was also videotaped from a tripod inside the Knitting Factory. Gary Lucas and Jeff play the first two songs as a duo, and then there is a break for a performance by another artist. When they take the stage again, it is as a full band. Until the encores, that is. Jeff stays on alone to sing 'Satisfied Mind' in a very public break from his collaboration with Gary Lucas. Video contains all the additional unbroadcast content. "About a year after the Tim Buckley tribute, on March 13, 1992, Gods & Monsters had a big showcase concert at St. Ann's during which the sound was bad and each fine musician onstage seemed to be listening only to himself. After that performance Jeff told Lucas he was quitting; he would play the rest of the gigs they had booked that week and that was it. Jeff Buckley's final show with Gods & Monsters, to a small audience at the Knitting Factory the following weekend, was filled with tension and barely contained recriminations. One song into the set Buckley told the soundman, "Let's hear Jeff's guitar," and proceeded to hijack Lucas' band for the remainder of the night. As Jeff led the group, Lucas filled in piercing guitar leads and counterpoint. Jeff let loose howling, primal vocals that were, ironically, like the young Robert Plant while Lucas--relieved of leading the group-- played with disciplined abandon, raising the stakes at every hand. It was an amazing set, everything that the St. Ann's showcase had failed to be. It took the grim relief of failure and the anger of a breakup to show what the musical prototype for Lucas to Buckley should have been--not Page to Plant, but James Honeyman-Scott to Chrissie Hynde. One scene-maker leaned over duing the set and said, "If all the A&R people who'd been at St. Ann's were here tonight, these guys would be going home with a record deal." When the last Gods & Monsters song ended, Maimone, Fier and Lucas walked offstage but Buckley hesitated. He then surprised everyone--including himself--by staying onstage and continuing to sing alone. It was a bravura, egotistical move, a violation of all band etiquette, and exactly the right thing to do to establish that he had the guts and the ambition to build his own vision, and that he was not going to be tied to anyone else on his way. When he finished singing, Jeff walked off the stage and across the room to his girlfriend Rebecca. They locked into an embrace in the middle of the club, his head buried in her shoulder, not speaking and oblivious to the people who came up to tell him what a great finale it had been. "It was after that night," Jeff says of quitting Gods & Monsters, "that I knew I needed to invoke the real essence of my voice. I didn't know what it tasted like at all. I knew I had to get down to work and that anything else would be a distraction. In that band there were conflicts. It was really crazy, a desperate situation. I just didn't need things to be desperate. I needed them to be natural." " -- (from the article 'The Arrival of Jeff Buckley: A Talented Young Musician Learns to Navigate the Record Business While Protecting His Music', Bill Flanagan, Musician, February 1994, p97-101).

Full show: https://youtu.be/w4IsHo9Tsdk Gods And Monsters - Cruel | St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, NY, 3/13/92: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKwC... #JeffBuckley #GaryLucas #KnittingFactory

and mostly just because I think this live TV performance is quite extraordinary but there's this from the BBC 2 Late Show and it came up after playing the above video of Gods & Monsters  . . . . . . . 

 JEFF BUCKLEY

Joan Wasser aka Joan as Police Woman: 

“Jeff was born today 54 years ago and this is what selfies looked like 25 years ago. No cell phones. An actual camera. 2nd Avenue. I needed to get us both in the frame without knowing if I had or not until the film was developed. I miss him every single day and am grateful every one of those days that I got to spend the time with him I did. Live now. It’s so much more fun than living in the past or the future. I’ve tried both and neither work. I’m going to keep living now until I’m no longer living. It’s how I witnessed Jeff live. It’s worth it. 💚 Sending love out to this beautiful and delicate world.” 17th November 1966

Did I know? Had I forgotten that Joan was 'Joan as Police Woman' and had a relationship with Jeff Buckley? That he was involved with her and seemed to have asked her to marry him at the time of his death at 30. I like both and Jeff's death knocked us all sideways and transformed us in some kind of collective shock as we had been excited by such a debut in 'Grace' . . . . .that he had produced quite difficult work just post that astonishing first album is a given to me and that then he should have perished by drowning in the Mississippi River that sounds so dark and foreboding, exotic and on the banks of the home of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain and people drifting on the gambling riverboats which is what sucked Jeff to his death. It all seemed so alien to us here in a continent of European eccentricity, British oddness and less so somehow, than such a mythic place. That he should slip away by the currents of a river of such power and mystique seemed somehow so cruelly unfair and so distressing to those who were so expectant of his early promise. Joan I think comes into that somehow American oddness, its peculiarity  . . . its otherness. I first registered her as 'Joan as Police Woman' of course and thought at the time now THAT is the strangest title for a singer, are they a band? What IS going on? . . . . . I know something of what is going on now and admire the plain fact that she can sing and write and reinvent herself  . . . if she chooses

Jeff here . . . .

Joan As Police Woman

'Grace' . . . . . live on The BBC 'The Late Show' - N.B. if you listen to just one thing today, make it this live performance of Jeff at his very zenith . . . . .  

Joan's Holy City . . . . 

Intriguingly enough (well for me) Floppy Boot Stomp have posted a set from Jeff's dad, the legendary Tim Buckley, the other day and I found both of those things at the same time . . . 

Tim Buckley - Happy Mad [plus Peel Session bonus] - Floppy Boot Stomp

Though it seemed Jeff had conflicting ambivalent feelings about his dad and understandably so (he was brought up Scott 'Scottie' Moorhead and self described his upbringing as 'rootless trailer trash' he only met his father once at the age of eight and only later discovered his true name when faced with his birth certificate and changed his name back while his family continued to call him 'Scottie') it seemed apposite here to make the connection . . . .both lost to us for very differing reasons both are terrifying losses of the truest of creative forces in both father and son

Oh thanks to Jeff Harris' wonderful blog Behind The Grooves (if with a slightly US bias ahem . . . ) for the heads up on this reminder of a truly tragic story

Bought this when it came out and can't recall who turned me on to Jeff Buckley (Tim's son for those who don't know- who's THAT?! ED) but his tragic death so young by swimming in the Mississippi river robbed us of a true star and incredible creative force. His first album here blew almost everyone away with any ears to hear and sensibilities to boot! I loved this album and still do . . . . . 

On this day in music history: August 23, 1994 - “Grace”, the debut album by Jeff Buckley is released. Produced by Jeff Buckley and Andy Wallace, it is recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY from Late 1993 - Early 1994. Singer, songwriter and musician Jeff Buckley was the son of folk music legend Tim Buckley (though he grows up being unaware of his true lineage until he meets his biological father for the first and only time when he is eight years old), and is raised his mother (a classically trained musician) and stepfather in Southern California. Two years after moving to New York to heighten his profile as a musician, he is signed by Columbia Records. Upon its release, the album initially receives mixed reviews and sells poorly until Buckley’s emotional and ethereal live performances of the material win critics and fans over. It eventually comes to be regarded as one of the finest singer/songwriter albums of the 90’s. Though Buckley does not live to see much of this belated acclaim and appreciation for his artistry. Ironically and tragically, he dies young like his father years before him (his father died of an accidental drug overdose in 1975 at the age of 28). Jeff accidentally drowns while swimming in the Mississippi River in Memphis, TN, during a break in working on material for his second studio album in 1997. Buckley is only thirty years old at the time of his death. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the albums’ release in 2004, “Grace” is remastered and reissued as a double CD + DVD deluxe edition. Disc one includes the original ten song album, with the second disc featuring various outtakes, alternate takes and other previously unreleased material. The DVD contains a documentary on the making of the album, along with behind the scenes footage of the making of the four music videos shot for the singles. Originally released on vinyl only in Europe in 1994, the album receives its first US release on vinyl, packaged with a bonus 7" of “Forget Her” b/w “Strawberry Street”, pressed on blue vinyl. The LP is reissued as a 180 gram LP by Music On Vinyl in 2009, and again by Columbia/Legacy in 2010. “Grace” peaks at number one hundred forty nine on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

Buy the deluxe edition here . . . .

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Jeff Buckley / Lover, You Should’ve Come Over




because . . . . . . .

We posted my attitude to Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' earlier and this is just a reminder and features perhaps my favourite track from that fine album . . . . . . tragic loss

On this day in music history: August 23, 1994 - “Grace”, the debut album by Jeff Buckley is released. Produced by Jeff Buckley and Andy Wallace, it is recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY from Late 1993 - Early 1994. Singer, songwriter and musician Jeff Buckley was the son of folk music legend Tim Buckley (though he grows up being unaware of his true lineage until he meets his biological father for the first and only time when he is eight years old), and is raised his mother (a classically trained musician) and stepfather in Southern California. Two years after moving to New York to heighten his profile as a musician, he is signed by Columbia Records. Upon its release, the album initially receives mixed reviews and sells poorly until Buckley’s emotional and ethereal live performances of the material win critics and fans over. It eventually comes to be regarded as one of the finest singer/songwriter albums of the 90’s. Though Buckley does not live to see much of this belated acclaim and appreciation for his artistry. Ironically and tragically, he dies young like his father years before him (his father died of an accidental drug overdose in 1975 at the age of 28). Jeff accidentally drowns while swimming in the Mississippi River in Memphis, TN, during a break in working on material for his second studio album in 1997. Buckley is only thirty years old at the time of his death. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the albums’ release in 2004, “Grace” is remastered and reissued as a double CD + DVD deluxe edition. Disc one includes the original ten song album, with the second disc featuring various outtakes, alternate takes and other previously unreleased material. The DVD contains a documentary on the making of the album, along with behind the scenes footage of the making of the four music videos shot for the singles. Originally released on vinyl only in Europe in 1994, the album receives its first US release on vinyl, packaged with a bonus 7" of “Forget Her” b/w “Strawberry Street”, pressed on blue vinyl. The LP is reissued as a 180 gram LP by Music On Vinyl in 2009, and again by Columbia/Legacy in 2010. “Grace” peaks at number one hundred forty nine on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

Jeff Buckley on swappers blog here

thanks to Jeff Harris' wonderful blog 'Behind The Grooves  On this day in Music History