BOXSET 4xLP BLACK VINYL

Jeff Buckley resented being called a folk singer, but he made his name playing solo sets like this one on the New York coffee circuit. Sony released this live EP before his first fully produced rock album, Grace, perhaps to attract attention to the raw power of Buckley's greatest gift, his voice. These four songs certainly accomplished that end. Buckley hurdles seemingly unreachable octaves, suspends notes for what seems like minutes, and belts out his falsetto without a scintilla of restraint. That's a positive inasmuch as it allowed him to show off his considerable talent; it's a negative when it sounded like he was showing off. But his ten-minute cover of Van Morrison's "The Way Young Lovers Do" is a tour de force of strumming and scatting, and his acoustic "Eternal Life" has an electricity that is paradoxically lacking on the plugged-in album version.

A1        Be Your Husband
A2        Lover, You Should've Come Over
A3        Mojo Pin
A4        Monologue - Duane Eddy, Songs For Lovers
B1        Grace
B2        Monologue - Reverb, The Doors
B3        Strange Fruit
B4        Night Flight
C1        If You Knew
C2        Monologue - Fabulous Time For A Guinness
C3        Unforgiven (Last Goodbye)
C4        Twelfth Of Never
C5        Monologue - Café Days
D1        Monologue - Eternal Life
D2        Eternal Life
D3        Just Like A Woman
D4        Monologue - False Start, Apology, Miles Davis
D5        Calling You
E1        Monologue - Nusrat, He's My Elvis
E2        Yeh Jo Halka Halka Saroor Hai
E3        Monologue - I'm A Ridiculous Person
E4        If You See Her, Say Hello
F1        Monologue - Matt Dillon, Hollies, Classic Rock Radio
F2        Dink's Song (Traditional)
F3        Monologue - Musical Chairs
F4        Drown In My Own Tears
F5        Monologue - The Suckiest Water
G1        The Way Young Lovers Do
G2        Monologue - Walk Through Walls
G3        Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin
G4        I Shall Be Released
H1        Sweet Thing
H2        Monologue - Good Night Bill
H3        Hallelujah