Jeff Buckley - Grace: Legacy Edition (Bonus Dvd) (Spec)
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Music CD Cover Artist: Jeff Buckley Edition: Music CD Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Special Edition CD Release Date: 2004-08-24 Music Label: Sony Product features:
Music CD 1
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Free Music Review: Not The Messiah, But Hallelujah He's Good
Hit: 4 Stars
Like similar one album legends such as The La's and the Sex Pistols (it's hard to argue anything other than Never Mind The Bollocks was a proper Sex Pistols release), the estate of Jeff Buckley has done very well off the back of such notably small output. It's the lavish packaging for this latest vault-digging adventure that initially grabs the eye, although it takes little time for the music to avert attention from the unreleased photographs, Bill Flanagan's interesting liner notes, the annotations from producer Steve Berkowitz and the overall polished sheen of this Legacy Edition. While cynics may scoff at this latest repackaging of Buckley music, fans are sure to lap up this special version of Grace. Any true Buckley aficionado's copy of Grace will no doubt be worn out due to years of loaning to unenlightened friends and soundtracking a decade of memories. This new version is a damn good excuse to update, although even an extra disc of rarities and a DVD inclusion cannot alter the fact the original Grace album remains a staggeringly beautiful enigma on its own. Ten years on, the record still holds an undeniable freshness and vitality. Corpus Christi Carol still divides listeners as to whether it is a beautiful piece or melancholy or simply a wishy washy medieval ballad, but there's no doubting the staggering worth of the Leonard Cohen cover, Hallelujah (also covered by Bono, kd lang and Rufus Wainwright, although never bettered) and Last Goodbye. Of the bonus disc tracks, the superfluous bluesy sketches of Alligator Wine and Parchman Farm Blues are quickly forgotten as the fantastic alternate version of Dream Brother and the haunting and desolate sounds of the Hank Williams track Lost Highway (made even more eerie by the similar age at which both artists died) drift by. The `short 14 minute' live version of Big Star's Kanga-Roo and the chilling bonus track Strawberry Street (when Buckley sings the line "born to die young" it's hard not to gasp) wrap up the bonus CD, while the Grace documentary and five music clips of the DVD add further weight to this hefty release. Unlike other estates that continuously dredge up unnecessary scraps from long deceased artists, Grace (Legacy Edition) has made a positive addition to Buckley's canon. With Grace a designated classic album, Jeff Buckley's spirit lives on through fitting tributes such as this.