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This album spotlights a surprising chapter of Jeff Buckley's creativity in tandem with acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Gary Lucas. Circa 1991-92, during an intense 10 months period, Jeff and Gary wrote 12 songs for Gary's band ''Gods and Monsters'' which featured Jeff as lead singer. They all began with Gary composing solo guitar instrumentals, complete with the riffs and harmonic structure, to which Jeff added a vocal melody and lyrics. After their packed debut concert in St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn on March 13th 1992, despite a three minute standing ovation at the end, Jeff decided to leave the project and continue solo. From their 12 songs, Jeff will later select ''Mojo Pin'' and ''Grace'' to feature on his eponymous debut album. In 2002, the album ''Songs to No One'' released some of Jeff and Gary's early works. 28 years after they began writing their anthemic songs, for the first time,The Niro and Gary Lucas have recorded the entire original project, including five tracks never before released. Thus, you have ''The Complete Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas Songbook''.

This 2LP edition contains 2 exclusive tracks recorded live during the sessions of the album: ''Cruel'' and ''In the cantina''!

Track Listing

Bonus Materials

• 'Cruel' (live studio version)
• 'In the cantina' (live studio version)

Press Quotes

A few years before critics anointed him rock's Second Coming, Jeff Buckley was just another struggling musician in New York, eking out a career with any band who'd share their stage or studio. But his creative vision crystalized after meeting experimental guitarist Gary Lucas, who first accompanied him during a pivotal tribute show for his late father, songwriter Tim Buckley, and later recruited him to join the psych-rock band Gods and Monsters. Their chemistry proved fruitful: 12 songs in a frenzied 10-month span. But when Buckley fled the band to launch a solo career, most of that heady, exploratory material was relegated to the deep vaults--seminal works of a singular career but only savored by diehards. Two of those prized collaborations wound up as spellbinding centerpieces of Buckley's lone LP, 1994's Grace , but it was a tantalizing tease: Had Buckley not drowned tragically at age 30, could that pairing have blossomed into the next Jimmy Page/ Robert Plant? 25 years after Grace , Lucas has teamed up with Italian singer Davide Combusti for The Complete Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas Songbook , which reimagines the full catalog: the staples (atmospheric epic 'Mojo Pin'), the deep cuts (folky sing-along 'She Is Free,' one of several tracks that appeared in demo form on the Songs to No One compilation) and the even-deeper cuts (the unofficially released 'No One Must Find You Here,' highlighted by Lucas' frenzied fingerpicking and buzzing-bee guitar tones). It's a faithful--and, given the circumstances, bittersweet--salute to partnership that could have defined a generation.

     —Ryan Reed, Relix 12/13/2019

among the five previously unrecorded songs, the epic 'No one must find you here' ('our Kashmir' according to Lucas) and the impressionistic 'In the cantina' are beautifully sung and should appeal to more than just hardcore Buckley completists

     —Nigel Williamson, Uncut