Tim Buckley, Heard Again

Live previously unpublished recordings from 1967 of the late folk-rocker Tim Buckley have surfaced, and can be heard online at NPR's (National Public Radio) music site: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111966379

Buckley died while still in his twenties in the mid-'70s, but he had many albums to his credit. Probably my single favorite piece would be "Song To The Siren" which I think was on the Starsailor album. It has been covered by many artists (I especially like versions by Elizabeth Fraser [Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil] and by Sheila Chandra), as have been many, many of his songs.

Ironically, Buckley's son, Jeff (whose own singing -- which you should NOT miss -- sometimes gives me shivers and haunting remembrances of his father) also died at a very young age.