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2011
Tim
Buckley: Tim Buckley - Deluxe Edition
By
Andrew Hultkrans
Spin
Rating - 8 of 10
Largely
known by younger generations as "Jeff's dad," Tim
Buckley was a similarly prodigious, mercurial talent with
a multi-octave tenor and heartthrob good looks, who also died
young.
But on his best records, he was more experimental, blending
folk, jazz, and avant-garde sensibilities into a searching,
mystical style whose only real analogs are Van Morrison's
Astral Weeks and Fred Neil's The Dolphins.
This
expansion of his gorgeously yearning 1966 folk-rock debut
-- decorated by Jack Nitzsche's string arrangements and Van
Dyke Parks' keyboards -- includes stereo and mono mixes, acoustic
demos, plus loose recordings by Buckley's pre-solo band the
Bohemians.
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