He had a unique voice who died too soon. I saw him perform live many times. Perhaps more than any other artists during my early years attending concerts. Watched him play in Philly at small folk clubs like The Main Point and The 2nd Fret, at loud rock clubs like The Trauma, Kaleidoscope and The Electric Factory when he opened for bigger acts, at large festivals like The Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Atlantic City Pop Festival, at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, and surprisingly at a high school gym opening for Badfinger.
Sadly Tim Buckley died of a heroin overdose in 1975 at the age of 28. His son Jeff Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River in 1997 at the age of 30. He was in Memphis recording his second album. Jeff Buckley's only album Grace released in 1994 is spectacular.
I have a lot of Tim Buckley in my collection.
- Tim Buckley, 1966
- Goodbye and Hello, 1967
- Happy Sad, 1969
- Blue Afternoon, 1969
- Lorca, 1970
- Starsailor, 1970
- Greetings From LA, 1972
- Sefronia, 1973
- Look At The Fool, 1974
- Best of Tim Buckley, 1983
- Dream Letter: Live in London 1968, 1990
- Live at the Troubadour 1969, 1994
- Honeyman: Recorded Live in 1973, 1995
- Works in Progress, 1999
- The Dreams Belong To Me: Rare and Unreleased 1968-1973, 2001
- Live at the Folklore Center 1967, 2009
- Lady Give Me Your Key: The Unreleased 1967 Solo Acoustic Sessions, 2016
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