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Greetings From Tim Buckley

- Source: Rolling Stone

Aspiring musician Jeff Buckley (Penn Badgley), 24, leaves California for New York in 1991 to reluctantly perform in a concert tribute, at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Church, to his singer-songwriter father, Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose in 1975, at 28.

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Album: This Mortal Coil, This Mortal Coil (4AD)

- Source: The Independent - Music

The project began as a vehicle for Ivo's personal taste, with Tim Buckley and Big Star songs prominent in its repertoire - notably the exquisite cover of Buckley's "Song To The Siren" - while various Cocteau Twins and members of Dead Can Dance formed the core of the musical realisations.

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Album: Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley (Elektra/Rhino)

- Source: The Independent - Music

The sleevenote to Tim Buckley's debut album fancifully described him as "a kind of quintessence of nouvelle" – a ludicrously high expectation to place on a 19-year-old's shoulders, but one that Buckley was to fulfill time and again, changing his approach radically from album to album, taking in folk-rock, art-rock, folk-jazz, avant-garde jazz, erotic funk and AOR soul.

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