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Jeff Buckley was a mess of contradictions: a perfectionist who believed in spontaneity, a man who was at once humble and vain, a musician who shunned his father's tumultuous legacy while creating one of his own. These are some of the reasons why he took his time writing and recording the material for his second album, laboring over many songs for months at a time. Given such painstaking methods, it shouldn't have been a surprise that recording was an equally fastidious process. Buckley recorded enough material for an album with producer Tom Verlaine, but deciding that the results weren't quite right, he scrapped them and moved to Memphis to record the album again. He reworked a few songs as home demos as he prepared to cut the album, but it was never made -- Buckley died in a tragic drowning accident before entering the studio. As a way to enlarge his legacy, his mother and record label rounded up the majority of the existing unreleased recordings, releasing them as the double-disc set Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Excepting a few awkward moments and middle-eights, it's hard to see why Buckley rejected the Verlaine productions that make up disc one. The material isn't necessarily a progression from Grace; it's more like a stripped-down, edgier take on the sweeping, jazz-tinged goth folk-rock that made the first album so distinctive. Neither the nearly finished first disc nor the homemade demos and re-recordings on the second disc offer any revelations, but that's not necessarily a disappointment. Sketches adds several wonderful songs to his catalog, offering further proof of his immense talent. And that, of course, is what makes the album as sad as it is exciting.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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TOM VERLAINE, Producer - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Eric Eidel, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Inger Lorre, Lyricist - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums - Audrey Clark, Composer - Lori Kramer, Lyricist
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Eric Eidel, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - Matthew Johnson, Composer, Lyricist - Emily Lazar, Mastering Engineer - ANDY WALLACE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Tighe, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Composer, Lyricist, Bass - Eric Eidel, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Steve Berkowitz, A&R Director
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 2
TOM VERLAINE, Producer, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer, Mixing Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
TOM VERLAINE, Producer - JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Ray Martin, Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Parker Kindred, Drums - Michael J. Clouse, Engineer, Mixing Engineer - Benjamin Goldstein, Assistant Engineer - Chris Theodore, Assistant Engineer - David Seitz, Assistant Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Michael Rutherford, Composer, Lyricist - Anthony Banks, Composer, Lyricist - Phil Collins, Composer, Lyricist - Peter Gabriel, Composer, Lyricist - JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Steve Hackett, Composer, Lyricist - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jack Rhodes, Composer, Lyricist - Joe Hayes, Composer, Lyricist - Nicholas Hill, Producer - Jeff Buckley, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Michael Tighe, Guitar - Mick Grondahl, Bass - Parker Kindred, Drums - Irene Trudel, Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
JIM CARUANA, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Joe Lizzi, Assistant Engineer - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jeff Buckley, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Mary Guibert, Mixing Engineer - Thom Cadley, Mixing Engineer - Michael J. Clouse, Mixing Engineer
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Jeff Buckley was a mess of contradictions: a perfectionist who believed in spontaneity, a man who was at once humble and vain, a musician who shunned his father's tumultuous legacy while creating one of his own. These are some of the reasons why he took his time writing and recording the material for his second album, laboring over many songs for months at a time. Given such painstaking methods, it shouldn't have been a surprise that recording was an equally fastidious process. Buckley recorded enough material for an album with producer Tom Verlaine, but deciding that the results weren't quite right, he scrapped them and moved to Memphis to record the album again. He reworked a few songs as home demos as he prepared to cut the album, but it was never made -- Buckley died in a tragic drowning accident before entering the studio. As a way to enlarge his legacy, his mother and record label rounded up the majority of the existing unreleased recordings, releasing them as the double-disc set Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Excepting a few awkward moments and middle-eights, it's hard to see why Buckley rejected the Verlaine productions that make up disc one. The material isn't necessarily a progression from Grace; it's more like a stripped-down, edgier take on the sweeping, jazz-tinged goth folk-rock that made the first album so distinctive. Neither the nearly finished first disc nor the homemade demos and re-recordings on the second disc offer any revelations, but that's not necessarily a disappointment. Sketches adds several wonderful songs to his catalog, offering further proof of his immense talent. And that, of course, is what makes the album as sad as it is exciting.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:40:53
- Main artists: Jeff Buckley
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia - Legacy
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
(P) 1998 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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