Dream Brother
Jeff Buckley
Mystery White Boy
/ Rolling Stone (5/25/00, p.73) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Features Buckley's most intemperate guitar-rabid work: pushed-to-the-limit renditions of that album's peaks, unreleased raw originals and perversely divergent covers..." Spin (8/00, pp.154-6) - 8 out of 10 - "...Cobbles together an eclectic group of performances recorded from Hamburg to Seattle during 1995 and '96....Buckley could turn his shows into gender-bending cabarets and dramatic sacrilegious services..." Entertainment Weekly (5/12/00, p.78) - "...In full Led Zep bombast mode here, the late singer and his band rip through unreleased originals and noisy takes from Buckley's '94 album, GRACE....unfailingly inspirational....We're lucky these recordings exist..." - Rating: A- Q (6/00, pp.120-1) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A very human album....the perfection of some of the performances is breathtaking....an increasingly apt [album] title..." Mojo (6/00, p.114) - "...A talent as large and far-reaching as his father's..." CMJ (5/22/00, p.26) - "...Captures Buckley's transcendent, emotionally charged performances with a level of intimacy that few live recordings offer..." NME (12/30/00, p.78) - Ranked #25 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year". NME (5/13/00, p.35) - "...A fantastic live document of the improvisatory and highly dramatic Jeff. Previously unrecorded tracks [and] incendiary performances by one of the greatest back-up bands..." Melody Maker (5/30/00, p.57) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...There's no doubt he had many talents....Like his father before him, Jeff was capable of placing moments of beauty next to unfocused blather..."
[Thanks for the heads-up recommendation JohnD , this as a follow-up to Grace, I'll now persue his other few releases]
These Live recordings of Jeffs, work as a nice compliment to, and after becoming familure with the studio recordings on GRACE to be more fully appreciated, IMO...
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Postcard Blues
Cowboy Junkies
The Trinity Session
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