struggling as to what and how he was going to evolve on his second album. The thing with Jeff is that people only know him either for his father or for his rendition of Hallelujah. A moving graphic biography for music lovers, Grace: The Jeff Buckley Story is. He draws out every little dramatic up and down to theatrical heights. Grace is probably my favorite album of all time. Most people come to know the album through the song Hallelujah, and from. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly.
Buckley's takes the concept and turns it universal. Grace legacy edition (or just the original album) is a life-changing experience. Jeff: Grace is what matters in anythingespecially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. Cohen made a personal song, his own private struggle with faith and love. The majority of covers – especially Wainwright's - stem from Buckley's version and not the dark, brooding Cohen original. That said, "Hallelujah" is a Jeff Buckley song first and foremost. Recorded in the fall of 1993 at Bearsville Recording Studio in Woodstock, NY, GRACE features Jeff on vocals, guitars, keyboards, dulcimer and tabla Mick Grondahl and Matt Thompson, members of his touring band, on bass and drums respectively and production by Andy. Try as I might now it's impossible to disassociate the poetic tale from the context of Eddie Murphy's Donkey wandering around an abandoned castle looking sad.īefore you say anything, I know that the version of "Hallelujah" was done by John Cale and that the song was written by Leonard Cohen. Now, Jeff Buckley is releasing his first full-length album, the ten song GRACE. That first experience firmly shaped my associations with the song.
I was in middle school, didn't know anything about music, and was watching the animated movie Shrek. The first time I heard "Hallelujah" was in the summer of 2001.