Description
Describing himself as rootless trailer-trash born in southern California, Jeff Buckley grew up singing in the car with his mother, a classically-trained pianist and cellist. At the age of five, he discovered his grandmothers guitar and began to teach himself to play. At 17, he left home, finished high school and wound up in Hollywood. The widening orbit of his sensibility led him through a motley series of rock and reggae bands and he did scattered studio session work for grocery money.
In 1990, he moved to New York, performing with various local outfits before striking out on his own. Hanging out on the Lower East Side, he found himself feeling very much at home. More than any place, he claims, this is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am hereI couldnt do it any place I lived as a child. I never fit in in California, even though my roots are there.
Jeff Buckley describes his music as a low-down dreamy bit of the psyche. Its part quagmire and part structure. The quagmires important for things to grow indo you ever have one of those memories where you think you remember a taste or a feel of somethingmaybe an objectbut the feeling is so bizarre and imperceptible that you just cant quite get a hold of it? It drives you crazy. Thats my musical aestheticjust this imperceptible fleeting memory. The beauty of it now is that I can record it onto a disc or play it live. Its entirely surreal. Its like theres a guard at the gate of your memory and youre not supposed to remember certain things because you can only obtain the full experience by completely going under its power. You can be destroyed or scarredyou dont knowits like dying. (via Label)
Vinyl tracklist:
A1 Mojo Pin // Written by Gary Lucas, Jeff Buckley
A2 Grace // Written by Gary Lucas, Jeff Buckley
A3 Last Goodbye // Written by Jeff Buckley
A4 Lilac Wine // Written by J. Shelton
A5 So Real // Written by Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe
B1 Hallelujah // Written by Leonard Cohen
B2 Lover, You Should’ve Come Over // Written by Jeff Buckley
B3 Corpus Christi Carol // Written by Sir Benjamin Britten
B4 Eternal Life // Written by Jeff Buckley
B5 Dream Brother // Written by Jeff Buckley, Matt Johnson, Mick Grondahl
Label: Columbia, Legacy
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 Gram
Released: 2015 / Original Release: 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
File under: TAV Essential Listening
File under: School of Rock
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