The bulk of the work as a whole one of the best singer / songwriters of all time

No, we're not talking about sales figures. That would be depressing. "Make music because puts money in there, boy," his father had told him, and if the good Tim really believed commercially big to come out, will probably be clarified with a musician who died in 1975 hardly. What would have spoken for: Exceptional as a songwriter and as a vocalist, with a beautiful, intense and modulation enabled voice that makes him, in my opinion one of the best 10 singers of the total pop and rock history. What, however, more or less on the other hand spoke, and unfortunately became a reality: Who complex commutes more or less between folk and free jazz, one hand in the psychedelic scene insufficient lands commercially, on the other hand is seen in the pop just as avant-garde eccentric, comes barely large out. At least not the record sales and the chances of getting good gigs, but remained modest in the second half of the sixties, where most of such music could indeed beat critics hearts high.

This box provides his first five albums that were published from 1966 to 1970. The untitled debut LP was not a great work, but announced in songs like "Songs Of The Magician" and "Valentine Melody" but even great things. And then came also - which published yet in 1967 "Goodbye and Hello", the 1968 opus "Happy Sad", the long time hard to find 1969 gem "Blue Afternoon" and published in 1970 disc "Lorca" offer music of rare intensity and originality, and also show a continuous development: "Goodbye and Hello" is more or less pure folk-rock with psychedelic coloring, on "Happy Sad" it goes slowly towards folk-jazz, which increases to the other plates, and "Lorca" is the most experimental. Ins shot went Buckley, for that matter, then in 1970 also published "Starsailor" which does not contain this box (and is specially discussed). But if still rather conventionally as in "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain" or "Pleasant Street" (both "Goodbye and Hello") or as a courageous border crosser between folk, jazz and psychedelic as in "Love From Room 109" ("Happy Sad ")," The Train "(" Blue Afternoon ") or" Lorca "(from this same) - about one allowed you look at Buckley always be sure: It was music from the depths of his soul, beyond all conventions of contemporary folk and Pop, and high instrumental originality. He himself only played his acoustic 12-string, his sideman used primarily instruments such vibraphone, upright bass, piano and congas, and the electric guitar sounded almost always nice skinny and undistorted, as befits the most jazz. This would still not storm hit parades, alright; on the other hand as an exceptional talent was sentenced to a shadowy existence in the music scene, is and will be sad, and today it is still a secret. After all, optimal production conditions were granted to him - from labels like Elektra (comment superfluous) and Straight (Frank Zappa) was, however, also to be expected.

From 1972 to 1974. published by Tim Buckley still "Greetings From LA", "Look At The Fool" and "Sefronia", where he struck a new, much more buyer-friendly direction, but still with no commercial success. A year later he was dead, 19 years later, not published his son Jeff with "Grace" is one of the ultimate albums of the first half of the nineties, fortunately without commercial success. That Jeff Buckley's career and life ended tragically just as was the case with his father, a can meet only with sadness. But what, have left to music both son like father, is music lovers who are looking for the originality, emotional and musical extraordinary, make a very long time to find any.