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Jeff Buckley: Grace (Legacy Edition) (Columbia)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2004
Remastered version of the original 1994 album with second CD of outtakes/rarities and DVD of Grace vids and footage of Buckley in Bearsville, New York. ...
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Jeff Buckley interviews Esquivel (1996)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 15 April 1996
Jeff Buckley asks the questions, and Esquivel gives us a glimpse of his happy half-century of music making.
File format: mp3; file size: 42.6meg, interview length: 44' 20" sound quality: **
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A Son's Star Trip: Jeff Buckley: Borderline, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 April 1994
"I NEED A Guinness," murmurs Jeff Buckley, after completing one of his many audacious sorties on the collective heartstring this evening. "And I really mean ...
Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 9 April 1994
DESPITE WHAT WE read in the live pages, many gigs these days are sterile, perfunctory affairs. Bands arrive, playing the roles they're comfortable with and ...
Jeff Buckley: Live at Sin-é (Big Cat)
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 9 April 1994
TALENTS sporting the imprint of famous genetic forbears inspire suspicion and derision in equal measure; look no further than Julian Lennon's career for elucidation. ...
Beck et al: Don't fake the folk
Overview by Cliff Jones, The Face, August 1994
A WASTED voice wails to a scratchy guitar, drifting in some desolate, unforgiven shopping mall limbo: "I was working at McDonald's, doing the late night ...
Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, August 1994
AWARE HE COULD be unfairly accused of trading on the family name, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley's 27-year-old son, has spent the last three years honing ...
Jeff Buckley: Man with the child in his eyes
Report and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 26 August 1994
Jeff Buckley had to become an adult before his time. What he learnt helped to make him a special one ...
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 27 August 1994
Born with a voice to die for and a runaway father who follows him everywhere, JEFF BUCKLEY's wish not to discuss the late, great old ...
Review by Mick Houghton, MOJO, September 1994
OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS Jeff Buckley has become a contender. A minor critical furore greeted his first live mini-LP, while a handful of mesmeric ...
Reading Festival, Melody Maker Stage
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
SO HERE I am, it's 12.15pm, the f***ing cab driver's turfed me out onto the street. I've got miles to walk to the flamin' festival ...
Jeff Buckley: The Garage, London
Live Review by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 5 September 1994
AS JEFF Buckley ambled lugubriously on to the stage, the faces of pretty much everyone in the capacity crowd betrayed the same thought — "How ...
Jeff Buckley: Grace (Columbia)
Review by Byron Coley, Spin, October 1994
ONE OF MY favourite sorts of music has no real generic handle by which it can be carried into the marketplace. Informed by jazz, rock, ...
Jeff Buckley, Bettie Serveert: Astoria 2, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 21 January 1995
WHEN JEFF Buckley's debut album, Grace, was released last year, it received ferocious acclaim and spawned a resurgence of interest in Jeff's folk singing father, ...
Jeff Buckley: Hero of the midnight hour
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 5 May 1995
Caitlin Moran tries to find out why Jeff Buckley has dreams about having his skin flayed by a mad sculptor ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 27 May 1995
"There is no name yet for the places he or his voice can't go..." They said that about Sixties archangel Tim Buckley and they're saying ...
Pulp, PJ Harvey, the Cure et al: Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 30 June 1995
City of 100,000 dancing lights: Caitlin Moran on a Glastonbury weekend that will be remembered chiefly for the coming of Pulp ...
Jeff Buckley: Grace under Fire
Interview by Toby Creswell, Juice, February 1996
"THE RECORD IS FANTASTIC, you and I know that. The band is really great and, let's face it, all the women want to get into ...
Conference Call: Jeff Buckley interviews Esquivel
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, Summer 1996
Take a ride on the mood music elevator as MOJO’s favourite young lion Jeff Buckley enjoys a transcontinental chinwag with space-age septuagenarian Esquivel. ...
Jeff Buckley: "It's Never Over"
Obituary by Jim Irvin, MOJO, August 1997
JUST BEFORE 9PM ON THE EVENING of Thursday, May 29, Jeff Buckley and his friend Keith Foti realised they were lost. ...
Retrospective by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 7 August 1997
On May 29, just as he was to begin recording the follow-up to his acclaimed album, Grace, JEFF BUCKLEY decided to take a swim in ...
Jeff Buckley: Grace under fire
Retrospective by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 1 May 1998
Singer Jeff Buckley lived in the shadow of his father Tim's death. Dave Simpson remembers meeting the visionary of pain and loss, and hears the ...
Jeff Buckley: Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk) (Epic)
Review by Stevie Chick, Melody Maker, 16 May 1998
YOUR INITIAL thoughts as you listen to this — the first posthumous release from mercurial troubadour Jeff Buckley (who drowned in the Mississippi last May) ...
Jeff Buckley: Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk) (Columbia)
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, June 1998
FANS OF Grace might find this album tough going. For one thing, it's hard to divorce the circumstances of its existence from the music – ...
Jeff Buckley: Mystery White Boy (Columbia)
Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, June 2000
Posthumous collection of live tracks culled from the singer's '95-'96 Mystery White Boy tour. Released in tandem with 1995 concert video filmed in Chicago. ...
Our Glorious Spring: Jeff Buckley
Retrospective by Andria Lisle, Oxford American, Summer 2000
THERE IS A PICTURE, taken early in May 1997, at Ellen’s Soul Food Restaurant in Memphis. It’s a Sunday afternoon, and we’ve just arrived from ...
Jeff Buckley: Songs To No One: 1991-1992
Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 8 October 2002
IN THE EARLY '90s, two restlessly inventive musicians, Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas, both haunted by phantoms from the '60s, crossed a generation gap and ...
Keeper of the Flame: Jeff Buckley's Mum
Report and Interview by Mark Paytress, The Guardian, 30 October 2002
IT IS FIVE YEARS since Jeff Buckley took his final, mid-evening stroll into the Wolf River, a sleepy tourist spot on the outskirts of Memphis, ...
Jeff Buckley: They Don't Even Know Me Yet
Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, January 2003
In 1992 Jeff Buckley gave his first ever press interview. A decade later, MOJO unearths this incredible, little-seen document. ...
Elliott Smith et al: It's All Too Beautiful
Report by Graeme Thomson, The Word, June 2007
Pale eulogies on fan sites are giving even obscure dead musicians a career in the afterlife. But does the net build an idealised version of ...
A Pure Drop: The Life Of Jeff Buckley
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, Omnibus Press, August 2008
An excerpt from A Pure Drop: The Life Of Jeff Buckley, by Jeff Apter, published by Omnibus Press, September 2008. (304pp, hardback, £19.95) ...
Book Excerpt by Jim Irvin, 'From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye' (Post Hill), May 2018
Excerpted from Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye by Jeff's former manager Dave Lory and former MOJO man Jim Irvin (Post Hill Press). ...
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