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Grace - Jeff Buckley
- Jeff Buckley
- Battled with severe
depression - this can be
heard through his lyrics.
- Influences included; Jazz, Rock, Folk and Heavy Metal.
- He was born in California, 1966 and drowned whilst
swimming in Wolf River Harbour, part of the
Mississippi River in !997, aged 30. His death is not
thought to have links with his depression.
- Tim Buckley, his Dad, and Jeff were both musicians and singers with great emotional depth.
- His dad walked out on the family when Jeff was 6 months old.
- Jeff met Tim for the first time when he was 8. Tim died 2 months later.
- Grace
- His only completed album.
- In Eminor, but opens with
Fminor7 and Gminor7, not
generally found in the key
of Eminor.
- Time signature - 12/8
- Lyrics are said to be about a dream Buckley had
about a girl hanging on her boyfriends arm at an
airport, not wanting him to leave, though they are
clearly about death.
- Described as a Rock-Ballad.
- Co-written by Buckley and Gary Lucas, the guitarist.
- Effecs
- Flanger
- Distortion
- Vibrato (strings)
- EQ
- Slides (strings)
- Drop-D tuning (guitars)
- Guitar whispers
- Overdubs
- Delay
- Scoops on the tremolo arm (guitars)
- Chromatic harmony is used to
colour the chords.
- Instrumentation - Guitars
(in drop-d), bass guitars,
synthesisers, drum kit,
vocals.
- Album produced by Andy
Wallace - he had worked with
Sum 41, Nirvana and Rage
against the Machine.
- Released in 1994, the same day as Oasis' Definitely Maybe.
- Sales of the album were slow at
first, but it was soon seen as a
work of major importance by critics
and musicians alike.
- Re-released
post-humously in
2000 under the
title 'Grace-Legacy
addition.'
- Power chords
are used.