You And I

My 14 yr old son loves this vibe!

Great product and would buy from again. Well done on a safe delivery as well.

Jeff Buckley doing some amazing things and not so amazing things. It is a nice album to have of studio cuts of unfinished work. It feels cohesive as a piece, so I am going to assume that folks put a lot of effort in making it feel like an album. It only makes me question what was cut.

What's sad is that his demo tape sounds better than most albums put out today. Even at the beginning, Jeff showed his talent and his ability to craft a song into his own.

Brilliant singer.

I thought this album was really good stuff Jeff Buckley was a promising talent 20 years ago but died in an accident. This entire album is tracks he recorded as demos for Sony Music back before he had a recording contract. Sony just found these recordings and compiled them into this album. These are the sample songs Buckley recorded to show he had talent. Listening to them, it's pretty hard to argue with that talent. He's been STRONGLY influence by blues music and just the genre justice. It's a mix of covers of more famous songs and original works...because that's often what you do when you're demoing for a record company. "Just Like A Woman" - A cover of the Bob Dylan son. Right from the start of the album, this song made me feel like I was relaxing in a small bar listening to a band and just quietly listening to the lyrics. It's the kind of music you don't want to sing along to or rock out with. You just want to sit and let it soak it. It hooked me and convinced me to listen to the rest of the album. "Everyday People" - A cover of the classic by Sly and the Family Stone. Funny thing is...and don't hate me on this...but I never liked the sound of the original. I always liked the lyrics but never the sound. But I REALLY liked Jeff Buckley's cover of it. It's that quiet slow melodic tone, which is a huge departure from the original that was jazzy and up tempo. Buckley makes this his own. It changes it from a party song to a deep meaningful song without changing the lyrics. (The lyrics are pretty powerful in their simplicity about coexistence. But in the original fast paced version I always felt that got lost) "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin" - A cover of Ray Charles. This is straight blues. Period. It's Buckley and a guitar. It's a slow bluesy song and it's good. Really good. "Grace" - A Jeff Buckley original. It's more jazzy than his cover songs. This had been previously released on the only album he recorded before his passed away. "Calling You" - A cover of...someone else. This song has been covered numerous times. Buckley does a great job of it. "Dream of You And I" - A Jeff Buckley original. He opens this track talking about what inspired him to write it. It was all from a dream he had. He said he just heard people singing the words 'you and I'. It's mostly a musical piece with 2 lines of lyrics at the end. Then its' Buckley talking about the dream more, explaining it to whoever's listening, almost like notes to himself for later, all while strumming his guitar. It's a description of a dream, which turned out to be a dream about an AIDS rally, which was a much bigger deal in the early 90's. This track is like a time machine. "The Boy With the Thorn In His Side" - A cover The Smiths song. The lyrics to this song are short and simple. This is another song I didn't love originally. The Smiths are good, but I just never loved this song. But I like Buckley's cover of it for the way it sounds. The lyrics still don't wow me, but that's not the cover singer's fault. "Poor Boy Long Way From Home" - A sort of cover....let me explain. 'Poor Boy Long Way From Home' is a classic blues concept. But it's been sung a bazillion times by a bazillion musicians. The only thing that's constant is the inclusion of the line 'poor boy long way from home'. Buckley's version is good. And he records it with a filter so it sounds like it was recorded on out of date equipment from 1920 and played on a wax record. It gives the track an authentic sound for this classic concept of blues. (Full disclosure here...I didn't know any of this. I goggled the song title when I didn't recognize it and read all about this. It's a really interesting backstory on this song. It's well worth looking into yourself to learn something cool. The full story is a lot more detailed than I've described here.) "Night Flight" - A cover of the Led Zeppelin song. This gets back to some more modern electric sound. But he's still putting a blue riff on a classic rock song. It's a good merger of the two. And it does that without giving up the feel of the original. I liked this track. "I Know Its Over" - A cover of The Smiths song. Again, I think Buckley really makes it his own. It's a great cover. Ultimately I really liked this entire album. There were a couple tracks that were 4 stars. But the vast majority of them were 5 star tracks. I wish we could have heard what Jeff Buckley would have done over the past 20 years had he not been cut short.

So happy with the album! The service was prompt!

was it great shape.