How to Perform Live… Jeff Buckley
Son of the late Tim Buckley, also a musician. Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover versions at venues in Manhattan’s East Village, such as Sin-é, and he gradually focused more on his own material. After much interest from record labels he signed with Columbia and, after recruiting a band, recorded his debut studio album, Grace (1994).
In 1997 after extensive worldwise touring of the Grace album, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during an evening swim in the Wolf River. 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 and expansions of debut album Grace and his Live at Sin-é EP. Buckley’s first #1 came posthumously in March 2008 when “Hallelujah” topped Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs following a performance of the song on American Idol. Buckley and his work continue to remain popular and regularly feature in ‘greatest’ lists in the music press.
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