Mojo: September, 1995
By Sylvie Simmons
Submitted by Sai
Some excerpts from a review of the Meltdown Festival:
Looking ravaged and romantic, Jeff Buckley performed plaintive Purcell and (from his album) Corpus Christi...Buckley returned with Nina Simone's desperate The Other Woman and talked about slashing his wrists. Someone in the audience yelled for Leonard Cohen's positively upbeat Hallelujah, but Buckley turned him down. Instead, by special request from Michael McGlynn, he treated us to Grace. Accompanying himself alone on electric guitar, Buckley's falsetto soared into mad, swirling curlicues. As June Tabor said when she came back for yet another dose of melancholy, "I often wondered what God did with the upper half of my voice!"
By Sylvie Simmons
Submitted by Sai
Some excerpts from a review of the Meltdown Festival:
Looking ravaged and romantic, Jeff Buckley performed plaintive Purcell and (from his album) Corpus Christi...Buckley returned with Nina Simone's desperate The Other Woman and talked about slashing his wrists. Someone in the audience yelled for Leonard Cohen's positively upbeat Hallelujah, but Buckley turned him down. Instead, by special request from Michael McGlynn, he treated us to Grace. Accompanying himself alone on electric guitar, Buckley's falsetto soared into mad, swirling curlicues. As June Tabor said when she came back for yet another dose of melancholy, "I often wondered what God did with the upper half of my voice!"
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