Amazon.co.uk Review
Here's what they say about Jeff Buckley: "He died too young". Here's why they say it:
Grace is simply one of the most amazing things you can do with your ears and a little digitally-encoded disc. He inherited the voice of his father, the legendary
Tim Buckley--seven octaves, each of them only just enough to cram his big feverish dreams into--but his music was all his own. Think Van Morrison's
Astral Weeks on drugs--but then drugs could give some kind of comfort, and there's no comfort in
Grace; just constant flux between crippling despair and an almost violent joy. When "Last Goodbye" unfolds it's third different middle-eight of Bollywood strings and Buckley's ecstatic scatting, it's hard to believe an ordinary human could have had a hand in something so extraordinary.
--Caitlin Moran
Description
This full-length debut was released to critical acclaim in 1994, and hailed as the missing link between Led Zeppelin and the cult folk of his father Tim, who died when he was onlynine years old. Before he had completed the sessions for his follow up to 'Grace', Jeff Buckley's life was also cut short when he drowned in the Mississippi River. On this releasehe managed to fuse folk, rock and jazz - and the material sweeps from mournful ballads to uplifting rockers.