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Buckley, Jeff Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (1998)
Jeff Buckley's first album, Grace, was finished at the start of 1993. In the four and a half years between then and Jeff's death, on May 29th, 1997, he wrote a lot and recorded often while maintaining a seemingly endless schedule of world tours. There were studio sessions, as well as home demos, live performance recordings, and radio shows. If the music business ran in the nineties as it did in the sixties, Jeff would have had five albums out in that amount of time. But Jeff loved searching more than arriving. As an artist, Jeff was tough to tie down. He might be cruising down one path and suddenly see a light in the distance and, bang, he was off -- following it.\n\nAs the executor of Jeff's estate, it fell to his mother, Mary Guibert, to assist Columbia in deciding what to do next. Shortly after Jeff's memorial services in New York City, Mary met with Sony execs to discuss the preservation of Jeff's musical legacy. Several things were decided at that time.\n\nFirst, there would be no posthumous overdubbing. The songs would stay where Jeff left them, even if a part was missing. Second, the album would not be an overview of Jeff Buckley music. There were good outtakes from Grace and the Live at Sin-e EP. There were b-sides and pre-Columbia recordings Some of those might come out someday, but not now. The last new Jeff Buckley album would be the songs he was working on when he died, the songs he and his band intended to record in June of 1997.\n\nThere were two major sources for recordings of those songs. Jeff and his band had done three sets of official studio demos with Tom Verlaine producing. Two in New York City and one in Memphis. There was a fourth unofficial session, with Verlaine, recorded with Jeff's longtime friend Michael Clouse acting as engineer. The results were, to judge by what we have here, pretty spectacular.\n\nVerlaine said, "I told Jeff when I left Memphis, 'I know you probably want to change everything' - we were laughing about it - 'but as it is, this stuff sounds really good to me. If you feel dissatisfied maybe you want to take it a little easier on yourself, because there's nothing wrong with this'."\n\nVerlaine and the band went back to New York at the end of February. Jeff stayed in Tennessee, in a little house he rented, and continued to work on his songs on a four-track recorder. New songs were written. He sent tapes of his work to the bandmembers, so they would be up to speed with him. He made a decision to take control of the project himself. Toward the end of April, Jeff started making preparations to bring the band and
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