Episode #132 | 6.6.23
Jeff Buckley: Dreaming of Music, Drowning, and Eternal Life
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In this episode
Jeff Buckley released his only studio album, Grace, at the height of grunge rock. But it didn’t sound like grunge. It sounded like nothing else out there. It defied categorization. It was full of originals and covers, some complex and cerebral, others straight-up pop. From the pissed-off punk takes to the Eastern-influenced meditations, the constant was Jeff’s voice. A voice unlike any other. A voice that could do anything. A voice that was singing out loud on May 29, 1997, when Jeff Buckley, just 30 years old, waded into the Wolf River in Memphis…and never came back.
Sources
Dream Brother: The Life and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley, by David Browne
Jeff Buckley’s Grace (33 ⅓), by Daphne A. Brooks
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN Interview, January 1996,... (Interview Magazine)
Jeff Buckley's first steps – an oral history: "He’d always say, 'It’s about the music, stoopid!’" (Uncut)
The Son Also Rises (Rolling Stone)
Interview, 1994 (MuchMusic)
Interview, 1995 (The JFiles)
Interview, 1994 (Citytv)
Grace documentary (Columbia Records EPK)
Jeff Buckley: “Hallelujah” (Rolling Stone)
Jeff Buckley Knew He Was “Going To Die Young” (Mojo)
Jeff Buckley: River's Edge (Rolling Stone)
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