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Buckley's biological father, Tim Buckley, released a series of folk and jazz albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jeff said they met only once, when he was eight. [ 11 ] After Tim died of a drug overdose in 1975, [ 12 ] Jeff chose to go by Buckley and his given name "Jeff", which he found on his birth certificate. [ 13 ]
Buckley died in 1997 after formally releasing just one studio album, 1994's Grace, which became a hit in Europe and a modest success in the U.S. He was working on recording a second album at the ...
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a compilation album by the American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, released by Columbia Records on May 26, 1998, [1] a year after his death. It comprises recordings Buckley made while working on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk , with the producer Tom Verlaine in 1996 and 1997.
The most profound aspect of Jeff Buckley’s death, and this was captured in David Browne’s brilliant book “Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley,” is that the very fact ...
Buckley and Lorre recorded a demo version of the song in 1996. The song is a tribute to Lori Kramer's childhood friend, who committed suicide in 1993. It is most notably found as a cover on Jeff Buckley's posthumous double album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (1998).
For more than two decades, filmmakers chased the lightning-in-a-bottle story of Jeff Buckley, one of the most gifted and promising musicians of his generation, who drowned in a Memphis river in ...
Verlaine was in discussion with Jeff Buckley to produce his second album before Buckley's death by drowning in 1997. [17] Verlaine guested as guitarist on numerous releases by other artists, including the album Penthouse by the band Luna. He played on Patti Smith's Grammy-nominated "Glitter in Their Eyes" from her 2000 album Gung Ho.
Jeff Buckley once told his manager, Dave Lory, that he wanted to make 18 albums in three years. Sadly, he only made one before he died in 1997. The first time Lory met Buckley was in a coffee shop ...