Track Listing

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: Caf� 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

Disc 3:

1. Interview With Jeff Buckley [#]
2. Way Young Lovers Do [#]
3. Kick Out the Jams [#]
4. New Year's Eve Prayer [#]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15820 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2003-09-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Live, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .43 pounds

Customer Reviews

Wow.
This set is indecribably beautiful. This is what Jeff Buckley fans have been waiting for. As you know, Jeff performed at the Sin-e, a small coffee place in NYC in the early 90's, and some of it was recorded and released as the Live at Sin-e EP. This is an updated version with....a lot more stuff. The entire package is worth every penny - in fact, I'd pay a lot more for this stuff. You get 2 CD's, full of amazing music and hilarious monologues, and a DVD with an interview and videos of live performances at Sin-e.

The songs on the CDs are breathtaking, with great covers, some great blues guitar work on "Strange Fruit", epic versions of "Lover You Should've Come Over", "The Way Young Lovers Do", "Sweet Thing", and "Hallelujah", and hilarious in-between monologues (my favorites include his imitation of Miles Davis, and his "Musical Chairs" song). He even manages to do a good rendition of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Yeh Halka Halka Saroor Hai" (I highly recommend Nusrat's Intoxicated Spirit Album or his Greatest Hits). Almost all of these versions of the songs have never been released before, except for the few from the Live at Sin-e EP.

The DVD contains an interview, which unfortunately is the same as on the Jeff Buckley Live in Chicago DVD, so nothing new there. Also on the DVD are live videos of Jeff performing part of "The Way Young Lovers Do" and his cover of MC5's "Kick Out the Jams". He also reads aloud a beautiful poem he wrote hours before the show.

I cannot recommend this package highly enough.

NOTE: THIS CD PLAYS PERFECTLY IN COMPUTERS AND CAR CD PLAYERS. I have had no problems playing in my car, on my computer, and I easily made a digital copy to my hard drive without any problems. This CD is NOT copy-protected in any way.

Finally, a Buckley release that equals Grace.
a two disk set of buckley? but i can hear you saying: i feel like i have 'grace' three times already, do i really want five? isn't this just repeating his already limited catelogue?

well, yes, in a way, but primarily, it's a no. even where he does repeat music, this is buckley unlike you've ever heard him. this rare, vintage, the reason why there is 'grace'.

the back of the box reveals the many, many songs done by buckley that have not been collected before. they're covers for the most part, but as anyone who has heard a few of buckley's covers before, they'll realise that this is just as good as new music. (buckley's cover of leonard cohen's 'hallelujah' is absolutely brilliant.)

the album was recorded in 1993, before buckley began work on grace, so he doesn't have his band with him. it is essentially buckley in a small cafe with a guitar and his voice, and inbetween songs, he pauses to crack jokes, and to play a few tunes to songs people request. it's an intimate album, perfect for late nights, and professionally recorded--you can't hear the crowd talking over him, and there is no hiss or crack over the music. it's as perfect as one could hope for sound quality in an album like this.

live at sin-e, spread across two disks, contains twenty one songs, and thirteen monologues, and a third disk with live footage. as odd as it might sound, it feels like a new buckley album, a side of him that was stolen in the river he drowned in, and thought forever lost in the murky depths. it's a rare thing, and beautifully packaged, and almost makes you want to say that a giant corporation did a good thing.

Superb historical document
When Jeff Buckley's debut album, "Grace", was released, listeners were amazed at the power and maturity of the music. Criticisms were often made about the rambling quality of some of the pieces, but it seemed as if Buckley had emerged fully formed from the head of his father. Of course, little could be further from the truth-- Buckley had a history long before "Grace" appeared, a pedigree in New York's downtown scene-- from jumping into John Zorn's Cobra performances (Buckley can be heard briefly on "Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory", long out of print) to his work with Gary Lucas to unaccompanied performances-- just his voice and guitar. When Buckley was signed to Columbia, they made the odd and remarkably wise decision to capture him in his then-natural element-- at Sin-e on St. Mark's Place in the East Village. His two days of performance that were recorded were boiled down to about 25 minutes and released as the "Live at Sin-e" EP. This material has been expanded on this "Legacy Edition" to well over two hours of material.

The performance is-- you know, given it and Buckley's place in history, it's tempting to call it flawless, but it's really not. What it is though is utterly engaging and, for a then-totally unknown artist being recorded by his new record label, it's awfully brave. Buckley mixes originals and covers as diverse as Led Zeppelin, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, traversing genres intuitivity and naturally. All in all, it's a lot of fun, fairly goofy (his Miles Davis impression is priceless) and at times, completely brilliant. And yeah, Buckley rambles now and again, and a couple of the pieces are a bit tedious-- but any time I think of it in this light, something comes on that's of such stunning beauty ("Twelfth of Never") or incredible power ("Strange Fruit", which threatens at Billie Holiday's original in terms of power of performance).

One thing it's not though is polished, and this is ok, because it's really quite exciting and engaging in its own way, but not being polished, it's not a good place to start for newcomers.

I'm guessing the recording was remastered for this release (truth to be told, I never got the original EP), because the sound is fantastic throughout. The bonus DVD isn't really a high selling point for me, all told it's about ten minutes long, with brief interview snippets (from the same session that produced the "Making of Grace" and the video press kit on "Live in Chicago". The live clips on here (a snippet of "The Way Young Lovers Do", a performance of "Kick Out the Jams", and the reading of a goofy poem by Buckley titled "New Year's Eve Prayer"). All of this is wrapped in a multi-panelled digipack in a plastic sleeve. The liner notes include essays from Mitchell Cohen (who saw Buckley a number of times at Sin-e and other clubs), Mary Guibert (Buckley's mother) and producer Steve Berkowitz.

Again, as nice a package as it is, it's not a good place for newcomers (start with "Grace"). For the converted, this is essential listening. Highy recommended.