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About Tim Buckley
Hometown
Washington, D.C.
Born
February 14, 1947
Genre
Rock
Tim Buckley was one of the most daring, eclectic, and innovative singer-songwriters to emerge from the ’60s counterculture boom. Born in Washington, DC, in 1947 and mostly raised in Southern California, Buckley was blessed with a superhumanly agile tenor. He was fascinated by folk music early on and began writing his own songs in his teens. He was only 19 when his self-titled debut LP was released in 1966; its 1967 follow-up, Goodbye and Hello, put him on the map with its dizzying blend of psychedelia and folk-informed balladry. Over the next few years, Buckley had an astonishing run of trailblazing, drastically different albums, including the 1969 folk-jazz cult classic Happy Sad and the following year’s unprecedented, avant-garde Lorca. In the ’70s, he turned a bit more accessible, venturing into pop/rock and R&B, but his fluid vocal virtuosity always led the way. He had a fatal overdose in 1975, but reissues and archival live releases helped spread his legend wider in later decades, as did the ’90s work of his son Jeff Buckley.
Tim Buckley has also released music as a member of the bohemians.
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