Jeff Buckley With Sean Fennessey

Bandsplain

The Ringer

Music

4.4 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 232 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Yasi is joined by The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey to dive into the brief, brilliant career of Jeff Buckley. They cover his rise on New York’s café stages and the making of his only studio album, 'Grace,' and they discuss how his singular voice, his wildly varied influences, and his tragic and untimely death helped to shape one of the most enduring myths in modern music. Episode Playlist Listen to the Jeff Buckley playlist HERE CREDITS:Host: Yasi Salek @yasisalekGuest: Sean Fennessey @seanfennesseyProducer: Rob SundermannEditor: Adrian BridgesAdditional Production Supervision: Justin SaylesTheme Song: Bethany Cosentino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What's with this band anyway?
0:07.0	I don't get it, can you please explain?
0:12.0	Wait, like, Bansplaine?
0:16.0	Never heard this band in my life?
0:20.0	Oh, you haven't? I love that. Really? Why?
0:23.6	Yeah, I love this song. Oh, I don't know that one.
0:27.6	Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplaine.
0:30.6	I really hate this band!
0:32.6	Whatever, I'm their biggest fan.
0:34.6	Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain.
0:41.3	Bansplain!
0:42.2	Bandsplain!
0:45.6	Hello and welcome to Bandsplain. I am your host, Yassie Sallick. This is a show where I invite
0:50.2	on an expert guest to help me explain a cult band or iconic artist. Today's episode is about
0:55.8	Jeff Buckley. If you've never heard Jeff Buckley, this is your last goodbye to that part of your
1:02.1	life, and thank God, honestly, you're going to be better for it, or worse. I'm not well right now.
1:25.5	My guest today, the host, the host, you might know him from the new yorker magazine, host of the big picture podcast and my grand boss, Sean Fennessee.
1:26.3	Hi, hello.
1:29.9	Welcome to the pod, Sean. Grand boss. Well, now that we've done some org, some org reorging, you're now my grand boss. Should we put the org chart to the entire
1:35.9	company up on the screen here? I think that the bands playing listeners are deeply interested in that.
1:40.2	There probably would be several Reddit threads about it. Yeah, absolutely. Sean, thank you so much for coming on the pod.
1:47.4	Thank you so much for inviting me on the pod.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.