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Bio |  |  | | Born in Washington DC, Buckley lived for 10 years in New York before moving to southern California. During his childhood, he was a fan of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, although country music was his foremost passion. He left school at 18 with twenty songs written with Larry Beckett under his belt - many of which later featured on his debut album. Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black introduced Buckley to Herb Cohen, and he quickly got him signed to Elektra record company. He also met guitarist Lee Underwood around this time, who became a big part of nearly all of Buckley's artistic endeavors.
Buckley released his debut album Tim Buckley on Elektra in 1966. A folk-rock album, it contained psychedelic melodies written with input from Beckett. Jack Nitzsche and Van Dyke Parks were involved with some performing/arranging aspects of the album. |
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Links | | | www.timbuckley.com |
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Press | | Reviews
"The closest we'll get to being in a studio with TIM BUCKLEY as his creative muse runs wild. Often revelatory." -- David Browne, author of Dream Brother: The Lives of Jeff and Tim Buckley (2001, HarperCollins).
'Hour long treasure trove of Buckley rarities and goodies, including two newly discovered songs. Remarkably, each posthumous release of TIM BUCKLEY material seems only to enhance his reputation. This collection is split into two groups of studio demo sessions. Those from '68 (previously available as the limited edition Works In Progress) find Buckley easing into the loser, jazz inflected style that was soon to emerge on Happy Sad. The musicians are backgrounded in the mix but overall, these selections are well recorded and Buckley's voice revels in the space. The '73 demos for Sefronia are the real revelation. Buckley's voice sounds smokier, sexier, more powerful than on that album - when apparently he was labouring under the effects of a cold. Its generic West Coast production job condemned it to second division status: had it been presented in the raw, urgent style captured here, it could have been up there with his best.' Reviewed by Mike Barnes, Mojo, June 2001 |
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Releases | |  | | Tim Buckley
The Dream Belongs To Me:Rare & Unreleased Recordings (1968-1973)CD [Click Here To Purchase][Download From iTunes] |
| Manifesto has discovered eight recordings from late in Buckley's career, from early 1973, several months before he went into the studio to record Sefronia. That album has often been criticized as over-produced and out-of-character, but these tracks offer fresh insight to what might have been. Included are two songs that have never been heard before, "Falling Timber" and "The Dream Belongs to Me."
In addition, we have included six bonus tracks from 1968. These six recordings, including some of Buckley's most beloved works ("Song to the Siren," "Sing a Song for You," and "Buzzin' Fly") were previously unreleased, except for the internet-only CD Works in Progress (Rhino Handmade 1999). |
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| | This is the second Buckley live show to be released, this time from 1969. It was released in early 1994 to rave reviews in the British press. |
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| | This album contains a totally unreleased concert of TIM BUCKLEY, recorded in New York in late 1973, about 18 months prior to his death in 1975; Honey Man contains material from his later albums. This third "live" album of Buckley performances released since 1990, after Dream Letter and Live At The Troubadour 1969. |
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Dream Letter:Live In London 19682xCD [Click Here To Purchase][Download From iTunes] |
| | This critically acclaimed double live album features folk rock legend TIM BUCKLEY at the height of his popularity in 1968. Contains the Buckley classic "Morning Glory" and "Once I Was." This two-hour recording, first released in 1990, has been a consistently popular recording among Buckley fans. |
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| | Buckley's 9th and final album, from 1974. Buckley died on June 30, 1975, at the age of 28. |
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| | Released in 1973, this is the next-to-last Buckley album. Contains "Dolphins" by Fred Neil and "Martha" by Tom Waits. |
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