Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead,[1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan’s East Village, such as Sin-é, and he gradually focused more on his own material. After much interest from record labels he signed with Columbia and, after recruiting a band, recorded what would be his first and only studio album, Grace. In 1991 Jeff Buckley flew to New York to make his public singing debut at a tribute concert for his father called “Greetings from Tim Buckley”. Buckley rejected the idea of the concert as a springboard to his career, instead citing personal reasons regarding his decision to sing at the tribute. He performed “I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain”, a song Tim Buckley wrote about an infant Jeff Buckley and his mother, accompanied by experimental rock guitarist Gary Lucas. On subsequent trips to New York in mid-1991 Lucas co-wrote two of the songs, “Grace” and “Mojo Pin”, from Jeff Buckley’s popular and critically acclaimed album Grace. Early collaborations can also be heard on the recent Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas album Songs To No One, which charted internationally with worldwide sales approaching 100,000. Towards the end 1991 Jeff Buckley began performing with Lucas’ band Gods and Monsters around New York City. The day after Gods and Monsters officially debuted in March 1992, Buckley decided to leave the band. |
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