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| - Jeffrey Scott Buckley (Anaheim, 1966 – november 17, Memphis (Tennessee), 29 may 1997) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- Despite passing away at only 30, Jeff Buckley is fondly remembered as an inspired guitarist and singer/songwriter of the 1990s. He first worked in Los Angeles, singing mostly cover songs until he garnered the interest of Columbia Records and created his first and only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Working on that album was Record Producer Andy Wallace, who previously made a name for himself mixing Nirvana's Nevermind. In the years since, Buckley's popularity has grown. "Hallelujah" eventually became the number 1 single on iTunes for a time, and several of his demos were released posthumously.
- Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scottie Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace. Rolling Stone considered him as one of the greatest singers of all time.
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| - Despite passing away at only 30, Jeff Buckley is fondly remembered as an inspired guitarist and singer/songwriter of the 1990s. He first worked in Los Angeles, singing mostly cover songs until he garnered the interest of Columbia Records and created his first and only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Working on that album was Record Producer Andy Wallace, who previously made a name for himself mixing Nirvana's Nevermind. Buckley spent much of the next two years promoting Grace. Sales of the album were mostly lackluster, and the songs received little play on the radio. Despite that, he was a critical darling and received almost entirely positive reviews. His cover of "Hallelujah" was noted as one of his best efforts, and included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Jimmy Page even called Grace his "favorite album of all time", high praise from the man Buckley counted as one of his chief influences. In late 1996, Buckley moved to Memphis to begin work on his second album, but tragedy struck. On May 29, 1997, he disappeared while going for an evening swim in Wolf River Harbor, a channel of the Mississippi river; having waded out into the river, fully dressed, while shouting the lyrics to "Whole Lotta Love", he was swept away while a friend was moving their belongings away from the incoming tide. His body wasn't found until June 4. After an autopsy, it was confirmed that Buckley had taken no illegal drugs or alcohol, and his death was entirely accidental. After his death, it was decided by Buckley's mother to release an incomplete version of Jeff's second album, "My Sweetheart the Drunk". Due to the albums unfinished nature, the album was retitled "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk". The album itself is even less known than it's predecessor, but among serious fans it has the status of being just as good, if not better, than "Grace". That being said, the album is obviously unfinished, with many songs suffering from poor audio quality and general oddities in terms of songwriting. In the years since, Buckley's popularity has grown. "Hallelujah" eventually became the number 1 single on iTunes for a time, and several of his demos were released posthumously. There's also a movie based off of his life in the works right now, with Reeve Carney playing Jeff. It has a tentative title of "Mystery White Boy", a nickname Jeff often went under whilst touring.
- Jeffrey Scott Buckley (Anaheim, 1966 – november 17, Memphis (Tennessee), 29 may 1997) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scottie Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace. Rolling Stone considered him as one of the greatest singers of all time. Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Wolf River when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. His body was found on June 4, 1997. Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for his unfinished second album My Sweetheart the Drunk, expansions of Grace, and the Live at Sin-é EP. Chart success also came posthumously: with his famous cover of Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" he attained his first No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 and reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart that December. Buckley and his work remain popular and are regularly featured in "greatest" lists in the music press.
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