Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as
Scotty Moorhead,
[Browne (2001), p. 58] was an American
singer-songwriter and
guitarist. He was the son of
Tim Buckley, also a
musician. Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in
Manhattan's
East Village, such as
Sin-é, and he gradually focused more on his own material. After much interest from record labels he signed with
Columbia and, after recruiting a band, recorded what would be his first and only studio album,
Grace.
Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1997, he stopped touring and moved to
Memphis, Tennessee, to experiment with new material for a second album. During his time there, he recorded many
four-track demos and completed his third recording session for his new album with his band, with
Tom Verlaine as producer. While awaiting the arrival of his band from
New York, he
drowned during an evening swim in the
Wolf River. His body was found on June 4, 1997.
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