Jeff Buckley: The Tragic Death Of The Musician & Making Of Grace

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Today we take a look at 90's musician Jeff Buckley

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It’s a voice that was unmistakable and unforgettable. i’m talking of course about musician Jeff Buckley who only released one studio album during his short lived career. Despite his lack of musical output during his time alive he, hE still managed to garner a cult following, which included some of the biggest names in rock n’ roll. His death was not your typical rock n’ roll tragedy. There were no drugs, or large amounts of alcohol involved, instead a strange set of circumstances So what happened? Stay tuned to find out.

Buckley came from a musical family with his mother being a classically trained musician while his father was the psychedelic folk singer named Tim Buckley who died at the young age of 28 due to a drug overdose. Jeff was only 8 years old at the time of his father’s death, but he wouldn’t have a close relationship with him. The younger Buckley was only met his father once several months before he his death. Buckley would tell the new york times in 1993 I never knew him,”. “I met him once, when I was 8. We went to visit him, and he was working in his room, so I didn’t even get to talk to him. And that was it.”
Buckley wouldn’t even be invited to his father’s funeral and his mother would claim in a 2002 documentary that her son tried to avoid much of the same pitfalls that ended the life of his biological father.

Known as “Scott Moorhead” for much of his childhood, Jeff borrowed the name from his step father who he was close to.. It’s likely that Moorhead had a bigger influence on Jeff’s career path than his biological father. Moorhead gave Buckley one of his first albums which was Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. Buckley would tell an interviewer in 1994 reflecting on Led Zeppelin “That was the first voice I really fell in love with. Young Robert Plant back when he sounded like Jeans. He was trying to sound like Howlin' Wolf, but he didn't. He sounded like some big fing animal.” he’d say.

In addition to Zeppelin Buckley would also be heavily influenced by Queen, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Kiss and Pink Floyd.
As a child Buckley lived in many places as his family moved around a lot within California with the singer referring to his childhood as “rootless trailer trash’. Buckley would also claim that he never fit in anywhere as a child telling the guardian newspaper in 1994 how his mother was the one pushing for the family to move around saying “We’d spend a few months in some places, longer in others. But we never hung around for long. The best places were also the worst because just as I’d make friends with someone we’d be out of there. I got pretty good at working out who wanted to punch me and who would defend me. I’m an excellent judge of character now. I guess my mother just always wanted to know what was around the next corner.”
Throughout his years in high school, Buckley played in a series of cover bands and soon after graduation he attended the Los Angeles Musicians Institute He would reveal to Rolling Stone magazine in 1994 that while the institute did teach him a lot about music theory, specifically harmonies,, overall he felt the experience was a waste of time. Buckley would spend the next half a decade in LA playing as a session guitarist in a wide variety of bands covering a range of styles including jazz, reggae, and heavy metal, Lacking any real success and growing tired of the LA music scene, Buckley in 1990 moved across the country to New York City where he initially didn’t have a lot of success working as a musician. He would split time between LA and New York from 1990 to 1991 during which he would record a demo tape.
Buckley would make his solo debut at a tribute show to his father in 1991 at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn. Obituaries for his father failed to mention him having a son and those closest to him were shocked to learn he had a child. It would be his father’s former manager who knew about Jeff and invited him at the last minute to partake in the tribute. Initially Jeff was unsure whether to attend, but deciding it would help him have closure he chose to do so telling Rolling Stone “It bothered me that I hadn’t been to his funeral, that I’d never been able to tell him anything,” “I used that show to pay my last respects.” The younger Buckley would perform a cover of his father’s song “i never asked to be your mountain’ which was penned by his Dad as a send off to the family he was abandoning. For

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