This month makes it ten years since the sad, premature passing of Jeff Buckley. I've often mused on whether the rock music scene of the late '90s would have been different had Buckley and Kurt Cobain lived on. I think things would have been much more beautiful and artistic than what came to the fore with the rap-rock schlock from the likes of Korn and Limp Bizkit.
May 22 is the slated release date for So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley. Taking its name from a personal favorite Buckley song of mine, the Legacy release consists of some of Buckley's best as well as two previously unreleased tracks. There's an acoustic take on the title track. And there's a cover of the Smith's "I Know it's Over" originally intended but cut from a radio broadcast.
All of this got me remembering a long ago set Buckley put in for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic which, thanks to the station's amazing archives, you can still pull up here. The version of "So Real" here is cathartic.
Read on after the jump for the compilation's tracklist...
1. Last Goodbye
2. Lover You Should Have Come Over
3. Forget Her
4. Eternal Life (Road Version)
5. Dream Brother (Alternate Take)
6. The Sky is a Landfill
7. Everybody Here Wants You
8. So Real (Previously Unreleased Edition)
9. Mojo Pin
10. Vancouver
11. N'En Connais Pas La Fin
12. Grace
13. Hallelujah
14. I Know it's Over