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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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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This morning I woke up and looked at my Apple homepage and saw that Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" was #2 on iTunes. I love this song, but Buckley covered it back in '94, so I wondered what had caused this iTunes phenomenon. I did some research (a.k.a. Googling) and found out that American Idol contestant, Jason Castro, sang it a couple of nights ago.The judges say they like his rendition. Even Si...
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A Jeff Buckley track that we've never heard before is a rare thing, but that's just what this recording of the late singer/songwriter singing The Smiths' "I Know It's Over" is.Originally recorded on April 6, 1995 for a radio program on WNEW-FM, it appears on the upcoming compilation album So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley that will be released May 22.Check out this stream:Quicktime:http://www.so...
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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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Today marks the 10th anniversary of Jeff Buckley's death. Were he still alive, he would be 40 years old.Listen to Grace today, in his honor.
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When I saw Hamlet set to the music of Radiohead at the local college it was pretty awful, but I could kind of picture this: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been made into a musical adaptation featuring the songs of Jeff Buckley and, most...
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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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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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