I’m telling you people reading or listening to this review that Jeff might have the greatest male singing voice of all time. I wasn’t getting the feelings like I remember. For some reason I was not “committing” to this. While driving for about the first half mile, I remember thinking whether I should pick another album. When we committed to reviewing this album several weeks back, I didn’t pull it up on my car stereo until about three weeks ago. AND for just the second time, I now am including clips of the songs we talk about to give you, the listener, an immediate opportunity to understand what we are describing. To really understand what I’m talking about, you’re going to have to listen to this album. But what Jeff Buckley does so seamlessly in his music is develop minor chords and carefully place them into his songs where they many times are communicated as major chords. ![]() The darker, more mysterious parts of music many times are written in minor chords.Įven if you are an average musician, you can play a major chord and a minor chord fairly well. ![]() For those of you who are going, “huh? What’s a major chord? What’s a minor chord? Think of it this way……this is easy…almost every time you feel that “hook” in a song, usually during the part that repeats itself, the chorus, this is typically played in a major chord. Practically every verse of each song is in a minor chord, only to explode during the chorus into a very brief major chord. When she first played me Grace, I was mesmerized by the strange minor chord structures that exist all over this record. ![]() Now, I was introduced to Jeff Buckley through a former girlfriend who had an underrated ear for good music. Andy has a laundry list of accolades including production, mixing, and engineering contributions to albums from bands such as Slayer, Run DMC, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Helmet, Fishbone, Rush, Rage Against the Machine and over 75 more. Recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY, Grace was produced by Andy Wallace. Listen to an audio version of this review by Greg
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