KEXP is celebrating our 50th anniversary this year, and we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year, and our writers are commemorating a song from that year that resonates with them. This week, KEXP's Dusty Henry looks at Jeff Buckley's 1994 masterpiece 'Grace' and how "Lover, You Should've Come Over" might be his greatest artistic achievement. 

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50 Years of Music: 1994 – Jeff Buckley - “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over”

Jeff Buckley - If You See Her Say Hello

Jeff Buckley - All That I Ask RRR Rooftop Cafe 8.31.95

Jeff Buckley - Theme from Land of the Giants TV Show (The Fez, NYC, June 19, 1994)

This Live performance happened on December 17, 1995 on Idiot's Delight w/ Vin Scelsa on WXRK K-Rock-NY just after Glen Burtnik was promoting the Bottom Line X-Mas show.  This recording is from my personal DATs and equipment.  The Air Personality, Vin Scelsa, is heard as bleed-through from the voc & Instru. mics.  This is 2nd of 2 songs he performed that day and was never recorded in the studio.

19951217 ID Jeff Buckley - Woke Up In A Strange Place

The story of the day Jeff Buckley arrived on the UK music scene, March 18th 1994, from a photo shoot with Kevin Westenberg in the morning, a live appearance on GLR in the afternoon and a gig at Bunjies folk club that was so over-booked that a second concert was arranged for later that evening at the 12 Bar.  Told by those who were there: manager Dave Lory, booking agent Emma Banks, photographer Kevin Westenberg and tour manager Steve Abbott.  With exclusive interview and music recordings featuring Jeff.

"Truly great singers all have moments at the start of their career when they were raw, pure, still within reach, yet already with one foot on another planet. That tingly intimacy courses through this memory of Jeff Buckley’s 1994 UK tour." - Radio Times, July 2014

"It was terrific, rich in detail and shot through with a melancholy of what would come later." - The Independent, 10th July 2014

First broadcast on 5th July 2014 BBC Radio 4
Produced by Alan Hall

The Grace of Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley receives a phone call from WFMU.
Cast:
WFMU guys + guest musicians, Irwin as the 'secretarial type', The Bongo Cat, Jeff Buckley, & somebody named Robert Zimmerman cameos at the end.

Jeff Buckley - I Shall Be Released (WFMU phone call - Unedited)

Jeff Buckley stories - Jeff Buckley: Fall in Light, 1999

Jeff Buckley - "My feet are too big"

Jeff Buckley
La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France 14 February 1995

Jeff Buckley - Valentine's Day Improvisation

«Greetings From Tim Buckley». St Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, April 26, 1991

 J. Buckley (Vocal), Lucas.

19951217 ID Jeff Buckley - Woke Up In A Strange Place

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