Jeff Buckley Full Discography Torrent series#

He moved to New York City in February 1990, but found few opportunities to work as a musician. Throughout this period, Buckley limited his singing toВ backing vocals. He toured with theВ dancehallВ reggae artistВ Shinehead and also played the occasionalВ funkВ andВ R&BВ studioВ session, collaborating with fledgling producerВ Michael J. Buckley later told Rolling StoneВ the school was 'the biggest waste of time', but noted in an interview with Double Take MagazineВ that he appreciated studyingВ music theoryВ there, saying, 'I was attracted to really interesting harmonies, stuff that I would hear inВ Ravel,В Ellington,В BartГіk.'Д«uckley spent the next six years working in a hotel and playing guitar in various struggling bands playing in styles from jazz,В reggae, andВ roots rockВ toВ heavy metal. During this time, he developed an affinity forprogressive rockВ bands such asВ Rush,В Genesis, andВ Yes, as well asВ jazz fusionВ guitaristВ Al Di Meola.ДЄfter graduating from high school, he moved north toВ HollywoodВ to attend theВ Musicians Institute, completing the one-year course at the age of 19. He attendedВ Loara High School, and played in the school's jazz band. At the age of 12, he decided to become a musician, and received his first electric guitar - a blackВ Les PaulВ - at the age of 13. Led Zeppelin's Physical GraffitiВ was the first album he ever owned theВ hard rockВ bandВ KissВ was also an early favorite. Buckley began playing guitar at the age of five after discovering an acoustic guitar in his grandmother's closet. Buckley grew up singing around the house and inВ harmonyВ with his mother, later noting that all his family sang. His stepfather introduced him toВ Led Zeppelin,В Queen,В Jimi Hendrix,В The Who, andВ Pink FloydВ at an early age. His mother was a classically trained pianist and cellist.

To members of his family he remained 'Scottie'.Д«uckley was brought up around music. After his father died of aВ drug overdoseВ in 1975, he chose to go by Buckley and his real first name, which he found on his birth certificate. Buckley said he only met him once at the age of eight.

Jeff Buckley Full Discography Torrent series#

His biological father, Tim Buckley, was a singer-songwriter who released a series of highly acclaimedВ folkВ andВ jazzВ albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a child, Buckley was known as Scott 'Scottie' Moorhead based on his middle name and his stepfather's surname. Buckley moved many times in and aroundВ Orange CountyВ while growing up with a single mother, an upbringing Buckley called 'rootlessВ trailer trash'. Buckley was raised by his mother and stepfather, Ron Moorhead, inВ Southern California, and had a half-brother, Corey Moorhead. His mother was aВ ZonianВ of mixedВ Greek,В French, American andВ PanamanianВ descent,В while his father was the son of anВ Irish AmericanВ father and anВ Italian Americanmother. Life and careerД«orn inВ Anaheim, California,В Buckley was the only son of Mary Guibert andВ Tim Buckley. Buckley and his work remain popularВ and are regularly featured in 'greatest' lists in the music press. 1 on Billboard'sВ Hot Digital SongsВ in March 2008 and reached No. Chart success also came posthumously: with his famous cover ofВ Leonard Cohen's song 'Hallelujah' he attained his first No. Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for his unfinished second album My Sweetheart the Drunk, expansions of Grace, and the Live at Sin-Г©В EP. On May 29, 1997, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in theВ Wolf RiverВ when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat his body was found on June 4. In 1997, Buckley moved toВ Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording manyВ four-trackВ demosВ while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. In 1996, they stopped touringВ and made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album inВ New YorkВ withВ Tom VerlaineВ as producer. Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S.,В Europe,В Japan, andВ Australia.

Rolling StoneВ considered him one of the greatest singers of all time. After rebuffing much interest from record labelsВ and his father's managerВ Herb Cohen,В he signed withВ Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.