Live at Sin-é
Jeff Buckley
Label Columbia
Orig Year 2003
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Be Your Husband
2. Lover, You Should've Come Over
3. Mojo Pin
4. Monologue: Duane Eddy/Songs for Lovers
5. Grace
6. Monologue: Reverb, The Doors
7. Strange Fruit
8. Night Flight
9. If You Knew
10. Monologue: Fabulous Time for a Guinness
11. Unforgiven (Last Goodbye)
12. Twelfth of Never
13. Monologue: Café Days
14. Monologue: Eternal Life
15. Eternal Life
16. Just Like a Woman
17. Monologue: False Start/Apology/Miles Davis
18. Calling You
Disc: 2
1. Monologue: Nusrat/He's My Elvis
2. Yeh Jo Halka Halka Saroor Hai
3. Monologue: I'm a Ridiculous Person
4. If You See Her, Say Hello
5. Monologue: Matt Dillon/Hollies/Classic Rock Radio
6. Dink's Song
7. Monologue: Musical Chairs
8. Drown in My Own Tears
9. Monologue: The Suckiest Water
10. Way Young Lovers Do
11. Monologue: Walk Through Walls
12. Je N'En Connais Pas la Fin
13. I Shall Be Released
14. Sweet Thing
15. Monologue: Good Night Bill
16. Hallelujah
The ecstatic nature of Buckley's art is showcased on his extended journey through Van Morrison's "The Way Young Lovers Do," where the lyrics gradually dissolve into long scatting choruses of wordless moans and cries, as his voice and flamenco-styled guitar evoke an almost gospel fervor. Buckley's lyrics are just as personal as his voice. "Mojo Pin" is a dreamscape full of delirious visions and moody imagery of lost love, while on "Eternal Life," his rolling blues chords set the tone for nightmares about his own mortality, recalling the tormented hellhounds of Robert Johnson. A talent like Jeff Buckley's comes along once in a lifetime, and LIVE AT SIN-E certainly whets the appetite for his first group recordings, GRACE.
This Legacy Edition of LIVE AT SIN-E includes a DVD.
Recorded live at Sin-e, New York, New York in August 1993.
Solo performer: Jeff Buckley (vocals, guitar).
2cdsRolling Stone (10/30/03, p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The yowl of his voice and the clang of his guitar couldn't drown out the roar of his raw ambition....Blues, R&B, folk rock, acid rock, classic rock and grunge were just the beginning..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/26/03-1/2/04, p.142) - Ranked #8 in Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "Records of the Year" - "...This double-disc expansion finally allows us to hear more: rapturous covers...between-song wisecracks, and to-the-bone renditions of his own tunes..."
Q (12/03, p.148) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Bittersweet and beautiful..."
Uncut (11/03, p.124) - "...Jeff Buckley would never sound this free again. At a key turning point in his all-too-brief career, hear his unruly magnificence ignite..."
Alternative Press (9/03, p.120) - "...[With] plenty of between-song banter that displays the comical side of this dearly departed crooner..."
Melody Maker (4/9/94, p.30) - "...Jeff Buckley has created one of the albums of the year with just a Telecaster and a voice that sounds like a choirboy singing from the rafters of a whorehouse. Buy it and melt..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/03, pp.138-9) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Throughout, Buckley refashions the material in a singular style that was equal part rapturous romance and bitter pain..."
NME (Magazine) (4/9/94, p.40) - 6 - Good - "...LIVE AT SIN-E captures Buckley still shaping his identity, hopefully the promise it displays will come to fruition..."
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