T.B. Sheets: In Praise of Tim Buckley
Ian Penman, Wire, The, April 1994
TIM BUCKLEY was small - "this little man," as he said in one of his slow sly seducer's songs - he was small, and white, and a mild mannered L.A. folkie, but he has bequeathed our century some of its most elemental, most experimental - and incomparably sexy - songs.
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