Jeff Buckley - Grace (w/ guest Ryan Carey)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome journalist and blogger (The Inappropriate Thesaurus) Ryan Carey to talk about Jeff Buckley's landmark but only album Grace (1994, Columbia). Although critically revered, the album never became a commercial success within his lifetime (he tragically died in a drowning accident in 1997 at the age of 30), but has since gone on to become one of the most respected and well known albums from the 90s. Buckley was the son of folk singer Tim Buckley, who gained attention in the 70s before his own untimely death. Although he tried to distance himself from his father, Buckley ended up following in his footsteps as a skilled musician and uncanny singer. (After a slight detour into a discussion about politics) Bill, Brian, and Ryan talk about how Ryan discovered Buckley's music a little later than others, the epic nature of each song on this complex album, Buckley's start in a New York City coffee house, his perfect hair, Buckley's legacy as an artist with a single album, Gary Lucas' influence, how perfect "Hallelujah" really is, cowrites and covers, William Wordsworth, and as always a track by track review.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	I'm
0:04.0	I'm
0:05.0	The Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:41.8	And I'm Brian.
0:42.7	And today, what are we talking about, Brian?
0:44.9	Talking about 1994's Grace by Jeff Buckley.
0:49.7	Yeah, it's about time, right?
0:51.7	I realize I say that almost every week now at this point. But for this one, I mean, you're talking like, this is, for me, this is a desert island one.
1:01.7	This is, this is like maybe one of my, like, five to ten favorite albums of all times.
1:08.0	So you're getting, this is big star, this is pet sounds, you know,
1:13.8	this is me voluntarily knowing everything there is to know about Jeff Buckley. So I'm, I'm,
1:20.2	I'm raring to go. If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week
1:24.6	is take a different album of music and just talk about what makes it great.
1:29.3	We're going to do a little bit of like our personal connections with the music.
1:34.0	And then we're going to talk a little bit about the history of the artist and the production of the album.
1:39.3	And then we're going to get into a track-by-track review.
1:42.0	That sounds good.
1:42.6	You know what's interesting too?
1:44.1	You always say a different album of music.
1:46.5	Like, one day, we're going to do, like, the Halloween sound effects or something like that.
1:53.6	They're like, oh, but this week, it's not an album of music.
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