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Jeff Buckley
Remember Jeff Buckley with the release of Legacy's So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley in stores May 22nd.
One of rock’s hardest lessons is that the impact of an artist’s career is often not measured by the time he spends among us, but rather by the intensity with which his music reverberates after he is gone. Jeff Buckley yielded one original studio album on Columbia Records during his lifetime, the impossibly glorious Grace, released in the summer of 1994. It made its way onto many a fan and critic’s list as one of the most important recordings of the ’90s.
Buckley's "lamentably brief career," as it has been characterized by his mother, Mary Guibert, came to a tragic and untimely end on May 29, 1997 (at age 30) when he died in a swimming mishap outside Memphis by the banks of the Mississippi River, during a recording stint in Memphis. One week prior to the 10th anniversary of that date, SO REAL: SONGS FROM JEFF BUCKLEY the first official anthology of his work (including two previously unreleased performances) – "the closest Jeff Buckley – singer, songwriter, guitarist, seeker – ever comes to having his own greatest-hits record," as Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke's liner notes begin.
Of primal interest to fans, collectors and completists will be the two tracks making their album debuts on SO REAL: SONGS FROM JEFF BUCKLEY. "So Real," originally the centerpiece of Grace, is heard in an acoustic version recorded in Japan. It was previously available only on a promotional single.
The other rarity closes the album, a live version of Buckley and his band "space walking with elegance through the harrowing resignation of 'I Know It's Over'," as Fricke introduces this cover of the song from the Smiths' 1986 album, The Queen is Dead. The scene was a live session at Sony Studios in New York intended for broad cast on WNEW-FM on April 6, 1995. But the session was edited and the song was not included on the radio broadcast. The remaining 12 other tracks on the generous 73-minute collection are drawn from Jeff Buckley's four principal Columbia and Columbia/Legacy catalog releases.
Track Listing
1. Last Goodbye
2. Lover, You Should've Come Over
3. Forget Her
4. Eternal Life [Road Version]
5. Dream Brother [Alternate Take]
6. Sky Is a Landfill
7. Everybody Here Wants You
8. So Real [Acoustic][Live]
9. Mojo Pin [Live]
10. Vancouver
11. Je N'En Connais Pas La Fin [Live]
12. Grace
13. Hallelujah
14. I Know It's Over
 
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