Leonard Cohen has to be raking in big bucks on royalties for his song Hallelujah, but that doesn't mean that he's rejoicing over all of the different versions.Hallelujah has taken on a life of its own over the last decade. The late-Jeff Buckley recorded a version on his last album, Grace, that brought huge popularity to the song. It was used on the soundtrack to a number of movies and became ...
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My Sister's Keeper is a new film that will be out this Friday. And it features a fairly decent soundtrack. One of the songs on the soundtrack is a previously unreleased Jeff Buckley song called We All Fall In Love Sometimes. The song was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. So, it is definitely an interesting song, especially in light of the recently released Grace Around The World which fe...
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So here's a question I've been asking for awhile, "Whatever happened to that damn Jeff Buckley biopic that was announced years ago that seems to have gone nowhere?". Good to know the project is back underway with, "Finally some new news via the Australian press, which we can confirm we've known about for some time. Orian Williams, who produced the well-received Joy Division, Ian Curtis biopic,...
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Check out the new Live CD/DVD "Grace Around the World" by Jeff Buckley!Here's a great description!Nearly fifteen years ago, the world was introduced to a young singer/songwriter from New York named Jeff Buckley. His debut album Grace became one of the most acclaimed and influential albums of his generation.To promote the album, Jeff and his band embarked a seemingly un-ending tour - taking them...
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The first Hollywood heartthrob to take on the Jeff Buckley biopic project was Brad Pitt (as a producer), but that fizzled out despite the blessing of Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert. Now The Courier Press reports (via The Playlist, via The Daily...
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Fifteen years after the release of Jeff Buckley's seminal Grace comes Grace Around the World, a very worthwhile DVD/CD set of live performances from his 1994-1995 world tour with lots of bonus material.
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My review of Grace Around the World (Special Edition) can be found (click here) on treblezine.comJeff BuckleyGrace Around the WorldLegacy/Columbia2009After reading Jeff Apter's brilliant bio, A Pure Drop, I was ready for the new compilation featuring our favorite rocking chansonnier Jeff Buckley, Grace Around the World. In theory, this two DVD, one CD collection looks tasty for the Buckley fan...
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My book review of A Pure Drop can be found (click here) on treblezine.comA Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff BuckleyJeff ApterBackbeat books2009Bono once described Jeff Buckley as "…a pure drop in an ocean of noise." I used to wish there was a book that could capture the complete life of Buckley just as succinctly as Bono's quote. But it seems that there's been a lack of candid biographies willing to.
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Treblezine is up to 1998 in the best albums of 90's feature:http://treblezine.com/features/164.html&page=4I selected Jeff Buckley's Sketches and my review is below:http://treblezine.com/reviews/2817-Jeff_Buckley_Sketches_For_My_Sweetheart_the_Drunk.htmlJeff BuckleySketches for My Sweetheart the DrunkColumbia1998On the cusp of Y2K came the final release of original material by the late great Jef...
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This album, on its surface, didn't strike me as anything overly remarkable when I first hear it. Grace's presentation seemed too flashy and ostentatious, with a singer so in love with his own voice that he has built an hour-long sonic altar to himself. It took a 7 1/2 hour flight from Dallas to Honolulu to give me the mental patience and pliability to give Buckley's debut album an in-depth list...
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I was on CBC Radio One today, on the show Q, talking about "Hallelujah." The podcast is here--I start around 18 minutes in. CBC listeners, the "Hallelujah" essay is here.For regular readers, new content very soon. And possibly more on Hallelujah (!), or at least Jeff Buckley, since apparently not everyone agrees with me about him.
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In 1998 or 1999 I crowded into the top floor of a little church in Noe Valley with a few hundred Jeff Buckley fans. Jeff's mom, Mary Guibert, was on a tour following Jeff's drowning in 1997. That night, Mary talked and answered questions and then played the "Mystery White Boy" DVD. Jeff's body and music were there onstage, and the TV was big enough that he looked more than half life-sized. At f...
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MOG is growing so fast(which is awesome) so I like to post this song every couple of months. The first time I heard this song I was rendered speechless. And through the course of my life...the good, the bad and the ugly...this song has meant different things to me at different times, and I still lean on it when I have moments of doubt.I consider this song my mission statement. It really has bec...
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Jeff Buckley covering The Smiths' The Boy with the Thorn in his Side at The Meltdown Festival circa 1995. This is the best quality version of this recording I could find. Not horrible but also not the greatest. Jeff always loved The Smiths. He once said the only good about the eighties were Morrissey and The Smiths. I don't agree. So many memorable songs and artists came out of the eighties.Enj...
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Treblezine is up to 1998 in the best albums of 90's feature:http://treblezine.com/features/164.html&page=4I selected Jeff Buckley's Sketches and my review is below:http://treblezine.com/reviews/2817-Jeff_Buckley_Sketches_For_My_Sweetheart_the_Drunk.htmlJeff BuckleySketches for My Sweetheart the DrunkColumbia1998On the cusp of Y2K came the final release of original material by the late great Jef...
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