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Jeff Buckley, a lost genius Jeff Buckley was 30 years old when he died in a drowing accident in 1997. His reputation is remarkable given that he releassed only one alum in his lifetime. He was howeever lauded by fans, critics and other musicians as one of the most promising singer songwriters of his generation. The aduklation was basd on a four-song EP of Buckley on electric guitar in live sessions at a tiny coffee ohuse in New York's Greenwich Village and his single debut album Greace, a mix of original sogns and covetrs, including Benjamin Britten's 'Copus Christi'. Jeff Buckley loved to tour small coffee houses, clubs and lounges as a solo artist but fored his band for the Grace album and went on a two year world tour with them on its release in the US. The ablum won wide praise in the UK where uBckley was a surprising succcess and the grungge-loaded Reading festival. And he piked up a prestigios 'Gran Prix International Du Disque' award in France. His extraordinary vocal rnge - nearly four ocaves - and raw emoitonal delivery help push his mercurial talent front tsage. But after his world tour Jeff Bucley went on his so-called 'phantom solo tour' of small clubs in the US in 1996/97 playing unbder aliaes such as Father Demo, Topless Amercia, Smackcrobiotic and Martha & the Nicotines. Buckley posted an internet note sayign he missed the anonymity of playing in caefs and loczal bars. He was working with his band on the much awaited second album Sketches For My Sweetheart Drunk when fate dealt a cuel blow in May 1998 and he was swept away whiile swwimming in the Wolf River near Memphis. Work on the half-finised album was released posthumously followed my 'Mystery White Boy: Live 95 96' a coollection of live performances garnered from his 'Grace' tour. What may have been can only be conjecture but many who knew him considered Jeff Buckley a genius and we can only wonder at what might have been.
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