Jeff Buckley - Grace and The Grace EPs
It was cool that Simon mentioned Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah rendition on American Idol.
It’s really hard to believe that Jeff’s been gone for almost 11 years … what a great loss … so much potential. Well, at least we’ve got Grace and the other great recordings that he did around that time.
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Five CD box set comprising EPs released around the world at the time of the Grace album & subsequent tour, 2 of these have never been released commercially & are real collector’s items selling for high prices on internet auction sites. They feature alternative versions from the album plus many non-album tracks, live versions & remixes. Mary Guilbert, Jeff’s mother, is providing liner notes, together with contributions from the other 3 band members. There are also rare or unseen photos included on the inner slipcase. 19 tracks - 14 non-album tracks/versions, over 2.5 hours of playing time. The titles are - Live From The Bataclan, the Grace EP (Australian Tour), Last Goodbye (Japanese EP), So Real (Dutch Promo) & Peyote Radio Theatre (Promo). Paper sleeves housed in an elegant slipcase. Columbia. 2002.
And the original near-perfect record in it’s original form. At many points in this record you’d swear he’s calling for his untimely demise that would unfortunately happen only three years later 
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Resembling at times a soft-sung Robert Plant, Buckley was an intuitive vocalist capable of dizzying arabesques and choir-boy sweetness. He is joined here by a tight band for 10 tracks highlighting his stylistic range–Pearl Jam bluesy on “Eternal Life,” impossibly serene on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” art-school noisy on “So Real,” Led Zep daring on “Mojo Pin.” Unorthodox, this was the debut of ‘94. –Jeff Bateman
