Biography

Since he was the son of cult songwriter Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley faced more expectations and preconceived notions than most singer/songwriters. Perhaps it wasn't surprising that Jeff Buckley's music was related to his father's by only the thinnest of margins. Buckley's voice was grand and sweeping, which fit with the mock-operatic grandeur of his Van Morrison-meets-Led Zeppelin music. Buckley released two critically acclaimed studio albums, a handful of EPs and numerous live recordings before drowning in the Mississippi River in 1997. Buckley was 30 years old. A collection of unreleased recordings, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, appeared in 1998. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• Back In N.y.c.

• Dream Brother

• Dream Brother [howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 12/02/94]

• Eternal Life

• Everybody Here Wants You

• Grace

• Hallelujah

• Hallelujah [mtv, Japan,tokyo, 01/31/95]

• I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (if We Wanted To Be)

• Last Goodbye

• Medley: Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin/hymne A L'amour

• Mojo Pin

• Mojo Pin [live Aus Dem Sudbahnhof, Frankfurt, 02/24/95 ]

• Morning Theft

• New Year's Prayer

• Nightmares By The Sea

• So Real

• The Way Young Lovers Do

• The Way Young Lovers Do

• Yard Of Blonde Girls

Discography

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• Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

  Columbia

  1998