Album of the Day — October 16
Jeff Buckley — Grace
16.October.2020
Jeff Buckley
Grace
1994
Jeff Buckley recorded only one proper album, Grace. And it’s one of the best albums of the 1990s …arguably, one of the best albums in rock history.
No, really, it’s that good.
Grace is that rare album that continues to grow in stature as more people are hipped to Buckley’s unique brilliance.
Buckley’s biological father was folk and jazz artist Tim Buckley, a moderately popular artist in the 60s and 70s who died in 1975 of a drug overdose. The younger Buckley was raised in southern California as Scott Moorhead by his mother and stepfather.
Jeff Buckley only met his biological father once. After his death, he decided to go by his biological name, Jeff Buckley.
After graduating high school, he moved to Los Angeles and began kicking around the scene as a guitar player — picking up sessions here and there and playing in different bands. Six years later, in 1990, he moved to New York City but found the same degree of indifference he encountered in LA.
When his father’s former manager, Herb Cohen, offered to pay for a demo and help the younger Buckley get a recording…
