Track Listing
1. Mojo Pin
2. Grace
3. Last Goodbye
4. Lilac Wine
5. So Real
6. Hallelujah
7. Lover You Should've Come Over
8. Corpus Christi Carol
9. Eternal Life
10. Dream Brother
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Andy Wallace, Jeff Buckley | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel: Jeff Buckley (vocals, guitar, harmonium, organ, dulcimer, tabla); Gary Lucas, Michael Tighe (guitar); Loris Holland (organ); Matt Johnson (vibraphone, drums, percussion); Mick Grondahl (bass); Misha Masud (tabla).With GRACE, his first full-length statement as a bandleader, songwriter-guitarist Jeff Buckley sets out upon a road less travelled, avoiding the safe and predictable in favor of the ecstatic and the personal.Not that such obvious influences as the Beatles and Led Zeppelin have disappeared from this young talent's music. Buckley's voice is an exquisite, malleable instrument, and from his daring vaults into the upper registers to his long, enraptured middle-register ornaments and moans, he suggests the breakthroughs of a young Robert Plant or Van Morrison.Songs like "The Last Goodbye" (with its coy slide intro and ragaish string backgrounds) and "Lover You Should've Come Over" (with its late Beatles harmonies and Edith Piaf vocal ornaments) are powerful evocations of failing relationships ("too young to hold on, and too old to just break free and run"). "Lilac Wine" and "Hallelujah" feature his glassy translucent guitar and poignant vocals in mystical, folkish settings, while "Dream Brother" achieves an almost Doors-like melancholy. Elsewhere, Buckley showcases his new band's power on "Mojo Pin" and "Eternal Life," which draw upon blues imagery and metaphors to create a subtle, hard-rocking atmosphere.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
Included on Stephen Holden's list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - ...The year's most impressive solo debut.
New York Times (01/05/1995)
Ranked #23 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (02/28/1995)
Ranked #21 in NME's list of the Top 50 Albums Of 1994.
NME (12/24/1994)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Buckley's got huge ears and an even bigger record collection: He jumbles jazz, R&B, blues and rock references with such apparent nonchalance that he can seem like a showoff...
Rolling Stone (11/03/1994)
Highly Recommended - ...If Buckley continues to evolve in the direction that GRACE indicates, only good things can result...
Spin (10/01/1994)
...a faultless expansion of Buckley's solo shows in New York clubs...
Musician (11/01/1994)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...This is no pretty folk LP, it's a powerful album of unlocked emotions, poetry and drama, where ringing guitar and driving drums mix with swaying spartan tenderness and almost awkward rhythmic changes...
Q (09/01/1994)
Recommended - ...It's a voice that leaps tall buildings in a single bound, smells of sex and Chanel and never stoops to showboating...
Melody Maker (08/13/1994)
9 (out of 10) - ...Just for once, the child of a star looks capable of transcending the family legacy. From here on in, the sky's the limit...
NME (08/13/1994)
...a dreamy and original set of songs....Too good to be true... - Rating: A+
Entertainment Weekly
Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (12/01/1999)
Ranked #3 in EW's Top 10 albums of the '90s
Entertainment Weekly
Included in Mojo's 25 Best Albums of 1994 - ...Audacious, adventurous, often tear-jerkingly beautiful and spiritually rousing, GRACE has it all...
Mojo (01/01/1995)
Ranked #12 in The NME Top 30 Heartbreak Albums.
NME (08/12/2000)
Ranked #14 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime
Q (10/01/2001)
9 (out of 10) - ...Just for once, the child of a star looks capable of transcending the family legacy. From here on in, the sky's the limit...
NME (08/13/1994)
Ranked #14 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's LifetimeRolling Stone (5/13/99, p.55) - Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.Q (12/99, p.82) - Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.Entertainment Weekly (Spring 2000, p.166) - Ranked #3 in EW's Top 10 albums of the '90sMojo (1/95, p.50) - Included in Mojo's 25 Best Albums of 1994 - ...Audacious, adventurous, often tear-jerkingly beautiful and spiritually rousing, GRACE has it all...New York Times (1/5/95, p.C15) - Included on Stephen Holden's list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - ...The year's most impressive solo debut.Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #23 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.NME (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #21 in NME's list of the Top 50 Albums Of 1994.NME (8/12/00, p.28) - Ranked #12 in The NME Top 30 Heartbreak Albums.Rolling Stone (11/3/94, p.101) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Buckley's got huge ears and an even bigger record collection: He jumbles jazz, R&B, blues and rock references with such apparent nonchalance that he can seem like a showoff...Spin (10/94, p.111) - Highly Recommended - ...If Buckley continues to evolve in the direction that GRACE indicates, only good things can result...Musician (11/94, pp.87-88) - ...a faultless expansion of Buckley's solo shows in New York clubs...Q (9/94, p.98) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - ...This is no pretty folk LP, it's a powerful album of unlocked emotions, poetry and drama, where ringing guitar and driving drums mix with swaying spartan tenderness and almost awkward rhythmic changes...Melody Maker (8/13/94, p.34) - Recommended - ...It's a voice that leaps tall buildings in a single bound, smells of sex and Chanel and never stoops to showboating...NME (8/13/94, p.44) - 9 (out of 10) - ...Just for once, the child of a star looks capable of transcending the family legacy. From here on in, the sky's the limit...Entertainment Weekly (8/26-9/2/94, p.112) - ...a dreamy and original set of songs....Too good to be true... - Rating: A+
Q (10/01/2001)
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