“I didn't know anything about Jeff Buckley before he died. I don't think I'd ever been exposed to his work. (MTV sure covered his mysterious death, but they hadn't seemed to play any of his videos. Then again, I was in the middle of college, so maybe I missed it.) I asked a friend if he knew Buckley's music: he replied that he had sold ever CD he had ever owned (in ill-advised fits of underemployment and chain smoking) except for Buckley's "Grace". I spent the rest of that summer enchanted by his performances, his story, his skills as a vocalist and his contrary attitude about stardom. (This was only three years after Cobain died, so it seemed we were losing our generation's talent left and right.) But I suppose songs like this one emphasize the timelessness of his songs, which seem impeccably, impossibly arranged. I actually don't know that much about what he wrote or who arranged what, but the songs on this record transcend any analysis I could offer. So I won't.”

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