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I’ve talked about every aspect of Lilac Wine except Jeff Buckley’s singing, but that’s probably the main thing that drew you to the song in the first place, so let’s get into it. You could write an ...
The other is Lilac Wine. It’s only 75 years old, but it sounds even less like alt-rock than Corpus Christi Carol does. Musical theatre composer James Shelton wrote Lilac Wine in 1950.
Buckley undeniably has the vocal pyrotechnics, but it’s hard not to feel that it, like his cover of “Lilac Wine,” is an exercise in impressive technique rather than genuine feeling.
“Jeff Buckley sounds like a man who doesn’t ... Whatever possessed him to record the bleak, beautiful standard ‘Lilac Wine’? And the bigger question is, how in hell does he make it work?” ...
I find so much to listen to on “Lilac Wine” in terms of Buckley’s delivery ... That’s how I feel when I listen to Jeff Buckley. One song on Grace that really influenced me was “Dream ...
Buckley's bandmates and producers talk about ... a stunning alt-rock track that would break up the hushed fingerpicked guitars of “Lilac Wine” and “Hallelujah” — the latter of which ...
Others like “Lilac Wine” have graced playlists of new relationships ... So, without further ado, dear reader, here are Jeff Buckley’s Top 5 Songs.
However, Jeff only met his birth father once, two months before the elder Buckley overdosed ... but Nina Simone's "Lilac Wine" was planted firmly in the secular world of romance.
Ahead of her 'Jeff Buckley's Grace Tour,' Katie Noonan examines Buckley's influence on her artistry, the challenges of singing his songs, and why she believes he was a "shredder." ...
Jeff Buckley, acclaimed poet and 90s indie-folk musician ... is possibly one of the most beautiful feats of music to be created, and songs such as “Lilac Wine” and “Last Goodbye” solidify Buckley as ...
If so, I’ll stop my dismantling of the legend of Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’ right ... womanly warble to more classical traditions. ‘Lilac Wine’ finds him trying to be Billie Holliday ...