“In some ways this album is just as astonishing as his debut and only studio album, Grace, It demonstrates his ongoing development as an artist, his perfectionism as well as his creative spontaneity. Its compilation was overseen by his mother and record label, and released almost a year to the day of his tragic death by drowning in May 1997. . CD one contains the ten tracks produced by Tom Verlaine (of Television fame) but were rejected by Buckley, whether due to the production style or because he wasn’t satisfied with his own songs, is unclear. Since finishing these studio recordings, Buckley had spent time alone from his band writing new songs and recording them on his own 4-track. His band were on the way back to Memphis to record these new songs with him on the day he died. The second CD contains these raw demos. We’re lucky that Mary Guibert, Buckley’s mother, made the wise decision to authorise this posthumous release as a twofer and without adding any production overdubbing to smooth out their rough readiness. . You get some idea of what Buckley might have wanted to do differently from Verlaine’s produced versions when you can directly compare them with his own 4-track recordings: Nightmares by the Sea and New Year’s Prayer are both rawer, harsher, with the former escalating like a whirling dervish until its sudden stop, whilst New Year’s Prayer is one of my favourites, his vocal weaving an angelically light and lyrical melody around simple but affecting accompaniment. . Other highlights are the utterly gorgeous Everybody Here Wants You, which is the bastard lovechild of Al Green and Prince. It was written as a love song for his girlfriend at the time, Joan Wasser, more commonly known as the artist Joan as Police Woman these days...” . FOR FULL REVIEW CLICK LINK IN BIO . #jeffbuckley @jeffbuckleymusic #sketchesformysweetheartthedrunk #everybodyherewantsyou #yardofblondegirls #satisfiedmind #nightmaresbythesea #nowplaying #nowlistening #recordcollection #randomrecordreview https://www.instagram.com/p/CBD82tUpFim/?igshid=1un6xpec4hpg2
