17 November 2024
New Jersey‘s hip-pop-hop artist 070 SHAKE just released her 3rd longplayer Petrichor.
One of the tracks is her cover of SONG TO THE SIREN, a Tim Buckley (1947-1975) pearl
from 1970.
Shake invited Courtney
Love to do it together.
Entrancing take.
5 November 2020
The much-lauded, unfortunate singer/songwriter TIM BUCKLEY, who died at the
age of 28 from a heroin overdose, released his sixth LP STARSAILOR 50 years ago,
on 2 November 1970.
UNCUT magazine named
it his “mercurial masterpiece.”
Here’s why…
10 July 2019
This day 50 years ago, on 10 July 1969, the late great Washington D.C. born TIM BUCKLEY released his third, superb LP ‘HAPPY SAD‘. A truly remarkable longplayer. Ambitious, jazzy, bluesy and with a similar exploring and soul-stirring effect as Van Morrison‘s Astral Weeks.
ALL MUSIC wrote: “Easily Tim Buckley’s most underrated album, Happy Sad was another departure for the eclectic Southern California-based singer/songwriter. After the success
of the widely acclaimed Goodbye and Hello, Buckley mellowed enough to explore his jazz
roots. Sounding like Fred Neil’s Capitol-era albums, Buckley and his small, acoustic-based ensemble weave elegant, minimalist tapestries around the six Buckley originals. Lovingly
under-produced this is one of the finest records of the late ’60s.”
Full review here – Score: 4.5/5
Stream HAPPY SAD here…
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TIM BUCKLEY: Biography – Facebook
R.I.P.