Grace by Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley
Grace
1994
Singer-Songwriter
Columbia

1. Mojo Pin
2. Grace
3. Last Goodbye
4. Lilac Wine
5. So Real
6. Hallelujah
7. Lover, You Should've Come Over
8. Corpus Christi Carol (For Roy)
9. Eternal Life
10. Dream Brother
(Also included is a 700x700 album cover .jpeg)

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more.
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more.
Well, it's you I've waited my whole life to see!
It's you I've searched so hard for...

"Mojo Pin"

Jeff Buckley (son of Tim Buckley) was the singer and multi-instrumentalist for his band, and in his lifetime released only 1 studio album, which is Grace. At the age of 31 (year: 1997), Buckley died by drowning in a channel of the Mississippi River, wearing all of his clothes and singing along to Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."

His death was very tragic, of course, but he left behind some great music that will last forever. Most people probably know Buckley for his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," or possibly his cover of James Shelton's "Lilac Wine." The album is highly regarded as a masterpiece, being given the highest of honors in countless album reviews, and rightfully so.

"Singer-Songwriter" is what Last.fm called it, but I would say Buckley plays a very old-time sounding jazz rock fusion, mixing a the old with the new. He has a very unique singing voice that has inspired the likes of Thom Yorke of Radiohead (who, in my opinion, took Buckley's technique to the next level) and Matthew Bellamy of Muse. He sings right on the dividing line between chest voice and falsetto, a very hard and unnecessary style to pull off. The power behind his voice is always has a "less is more" subtleness, careful not to overstep and come off as pretentious.

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