1. Buckley got his show-business break at a tribute concert for late singer Tim Buckley, the estranged father he never knew.
On the opposite coast, plans were afoot to stage a Tim Buckley tribute concert at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn. Since Tim’s obituaries failed to mention Jeff, few realized that the man of honor even had a biological son. Tim’s former manager, Herb Cohen, belatedly informed organizers of the junior Buckley’s existence , and an invitation was extended for him to perform. At first, he wasn’t sold on the idea.
Lucas first composed the instrumental passages to what would become “Grace” and “Mojo Pin” after he recruited Buckley to sing in his raga-rock project Gods and Monsters in the fall of 1991. “I invited him into my group,” Lucas recalled in an interview with Songfacts. “Right away, I thought he could be the great singer I’ve been looking for. He said he would do it, one thing led to another, and he was in.
Shortly after his departure from Gods and Monsters, Buckley made his debut at Sin-é, a non-descript East Village café that would become his home base. He initially stopped by on the advice of Daniel Harnett, an actor friend of Rebecca Moore’s, who talked Buckley up to the club’s owner, an Irish ex-pat named Shane Doyle. “My memory is he just kind of ambled into the place dragging his guitar in the middle of the day with his head half down,” Doyle remembered in.
At the Meltdown in England in 1995, Jeff Buckley sang Dido’s Lament, which is the mot hauntingly beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. Wish I could get a recording of this:
One of the greatest!!!!!
1. Jeff didn’t own any shirts
do we need to know tho?
I'd say legendary is a bit hyperbole, it's more a cult classic loved by a few strange people with bad taste.
I really miss this genius🖤🎸😇
Stellar article- I just stopped everything and read this and then reread it. What a brilliant star he was.
Saw him live twice in Melbourne. His voice was melodic and haunting at the same time. Grace still gets played very often in my car. He had an amazing voice and stage presence.
Arguably the best album of the 90’s and one of the best albums of all time.
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