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Tim Buckley: Live At The Troubadour 1969
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, April 1994
HE WAS, ABOVE all, a beautiful boy. Sure, the album sleeves show those impossible good looks steadily thickening into manhood and by 1974's Look At ...
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Interview by Andy Childs, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1974
From Van Gogh to Hank Williams to Hunter S Thompson via RD Laing and Ray Charles: Tim Buckley on life, America, and all his albums.
File format: mp3; file size: 79.2mb, interview length: 1h 22' 31" sound quality: ***
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Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, May 1967
Jimmy Castor, Tim Buckley, Jimmy Ruffin, Judy Collins ...
Column by Judith Sims, TeenSet, September 1967
HOWDY, hip happies! I'm in a good mood, in case you couldn’t guess from that kray-zee salutation! Why am I in a good mood? You ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, September 1967
WE ARE sitting around talking about music when the adjective and the noun link: someone says that Tim Buckley is incredible. ...
Loraine Alterman on Pop Records: A Powerful New Kind of 'Suite'
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 8 October 1967
TWO EXCELLENT new albums show how far the best contemporary song-writing and record making has come from the June-moon-spoon days. One is Of Cabbages and ...
Tim Buckley: Garrick Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 14 November 1967
BLUES-ROCK BAG SUNG BY BUCKLEY California Tenor Enlivens a Quiet Monday 'Village' ...
Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 30 December 1967
Dear Beat, I KNOW YOU get a good deal of mail pertaining to new groups that various people throughout the country feel are talented. Because of ...
Essay by Mike Jahn, Escapade, 1968
STANDING AT THE edge of Fire Island surf at seven in the morning is like standing with arms outstretched at the edge of the universe, ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 March 1968
"Rock and Roll '68" — Good Panorama of the Pop Scene ...
The Folk Poets: Hardin, Buckley, Ian & Collins
Profile by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 23 March 1968
MUSIC HAS become a very personal thing. With the advance of the writer-singer, songs have become an expression of internal feelings mirrored for everyone. These ...
Incredible String Band/Tim Buckley: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 6 April 1968
TIM BUCKLEY made a guest appearance at the Incredible String Band's packed Royal Festival Hall concert last Saturday and amply illustrated the difference in approach ...
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 April 1968
TIM BUCKLEY is a vague, interesting folksinger who doesn't know how many copies his records have sold or which of his songs have been put ...
Tim Buckley/Mary McCaslin: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Live Review by Stephen M H Braitman, Van Nuys Valley News, May 1968
The electric-haired Tim Buckley returned to Doug Weston's Troubadour Tuesday night with his wild, wide spectrum of musical style, which in his record albums reflect ...
The Growing Mystique of Tim Buckley
Comment by Ellen Sander, Hit Parader, September 1968
HE DOESN'T talk very much and journalists are almost unanimous in their frustration of trying to get a word out of him. His presence is ...
Tim Buckley: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY; Danny Kalb: Café Au Go Go, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 17 March 1969
Poet-Singer Draws Throng With Band at Philharmonic ...
Tim Buckley: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 4 November 1969
Tim Buckley sets Low-Keyed Mood At a Jazz Concert ...
Review by Mike Jahn, Detroit Free Press, 11 September 1970
Tim Buckley — Folk's Own Jazz Singer ...
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 14 November 1970
THIS IS presumably Buckley's last album for Elektra, being recorded (so I'm told) at the same time as Happy/Sad and before his first Straight album, ...
The Faces: Long Player (Warner WS 3011, £2.15); Tim Buckley: Starsailor (Straight STS 1064. £2.19)
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 13 March 1971
Hot strong rock in the mod tradition ...
Tim Buckley: Starsailor (Straight 1064)
Review by Nick Jones, Cream, May 1971
THE BELIEF that certain kinds of music have a quintessential equilibrium which, when penetrated by the listener transforms itself into regenerative power, may conceivably make ...
Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 28 September 1972
JOY JUICED ...
Tim Buckley: Greetings From L.A. (Warner Bros/Straight)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 October 1972
AFTER THE gradual progression through Lorca, Blue Afternoon, and Starsailor, one might have expected Buckley to continue with such a startlingly fresh line of development ...
Tim Buckley: Greetings from LA/ Domenic Troiano: Dom
Review by Simon Frith, Cream, November 1972
DOMENIC TROIANO has just been signed up as lead guitarist for the James Gang (transfer fees?) but I don't know where he came from nor ...
Tim Buckley: Greetings from L.A. (Straight)
Review by Ken Barnes, Creem, December 1972
IT'S BEEN ABOUT two years now since Tim Buckley has had an album out. ...
Tim Buckley: Digging Deeper to the Roots
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 1973
IN A WORLD that seems grossly over-populated with singer/songwriters whose crotchets and quavers reflect their personal attitudes and experiences, Tim Buckley stands out like the ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, February 1973
TIM BUCKLEY had moved from the East Coast to Southern California and became involved, playing and touring, with various country bands like Princess Ramona and ...
Tim Buckley: Boarding House, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 March 1973
Stupendous Show by Tim Buckley ...
Tim Buckley: How a Hippie Hero became a sultry Sex Object...
Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 8 June 1974
...and had a simply devastating effect on the glands of a certain Chrissie Hynd [sic]. ...
A Happy Sad Starsailor from Washington D.C.
Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, August 1974
BEFORE I ENTERED the glamorous and exciting world of the rock n' roll business on a full-time basis, I used to "work" (a rather loose ...
Tim Buckley: Look At The Fool (Discreet Import)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 October 1974
SO WHAT'S all this fuss about Tim Buckley all of a sudden, already. ...
Tim Buckley: Greeetings From L.A.
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 1 March 1975
WAY BACK in the dim and distant, old Tim had to sing for his supper, along with the likes of Steve Noonan and Jackson Browne, ...
Tim Buckley: Greetings From LA
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 1 March 1975
WAY BACK IN the dim and distant, old Tim had to sing for his supper, along with the likes of Steve Noonan and Jackson Browne, ...
Tim Buckley: Starwood, West Hollywood, CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 1975
Tim Buckley and His Band: Sinuous Folk-Rock ...
Tim Buckley Dies: He Put His Soul Where His Mouth Was
Obituary by Idris Walters, Sounds, 12 July 1975
TIM BUCKLEY died at his home in Santa Monica, California, after appearing at a concert on Sunday, June 29. The exact cause of death of ...
Tim Buckley: The Candle Died, Now You Are Gone, For The Flame Was Too Bright
Obituary by Andy Childs, ZigZag, August 1975
LESS THAN a month after I started work at ZigZag, I had the privilege of meeting Tim Buckley. I interviewed him at some length and ...
Tim Buckley Dead at 28; Murder Charged
Report by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 14 August 1975
LOS ANGELES — Singer/songwriter Tim Buckley died at the Santa Monica Hospital emergency room at 9:42 p.m. on June 29th. At first police suspected that ...
A Fleeting House: The Music of Tim Buckley
Retrospective by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, October 1975
LIFE AND DEATH are becoming indistinguishable. New biologies are beginning to prove that Death is just a change of state in the cycle of life. ...
A Fleeting House: The Music of Tim Buckley
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, October 1975
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Tim Buckley: The Fantastic Voyage of a Starsailor
Retrospective by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 22 December 1979
"I'm as puzzled as the newborn child I'm as riddled as the tide Should I stand amid the breakers Or should I die with death my bride? Come hear ...
Tim Buckley: Dream Letter — Live In London 1968
Review by Martin Aston, Q, July 1990
FOR ANY ADMIRER of Tim Buckley's unique talent, this double live album taken from his London debut in 1968 (at Queen Elizabeth Hall) comes right ...
T.B. Sheets: In Praise of Tim Buckley
Retrospective by Ian Penman, The Wire, April 1994
TIM BUCKLEY was small - "this little man," as he said in one of his slow sly seducer's songs - he was small, and white, ...
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 2 April 1994
TIM BUCKLEY died at 28. He never had a Top 40 album. But two recent live album releases and the emergence of his son, Jeff, ...
Retrospective by Martin Aston, MOJO, July 1995
IN 1965, THE LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE CHEETAH dubbed three emerging singer-songwriters – Jackson Browne, Steve Noonan, and Tim Buckley – 'The Orange County Three'. ...
Tim Buckley: Talking In Tongues
Interview by Steve Turner, MOJO, July 1995
IF TIM BUCKLEY was alive today I'd probably get in touch with him to apologise. You probably don’t remember me, I'd say, but I interviewed ...
Starsailor: Voyage into the Unknown
Book Excerpt by David Browne, Dream Brother, 2000
By early 1970, Larry Beckett had had an eventful 18 months, albeit in the worst ways. After being drafted, he had been assigned to a ...
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, July 2000
Driven to despair by commercial neglect, his visionary genius unrecognised, TIM BUCKLEY died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28. On the 25th ...
Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, September 2000
IS THERE any point in anyone trying to recast the lassitudinous spacesail of Tim Buckley? As a singer, Buckley belongs to the Eternal(s), so aren't ...
Tim Buckley: The Multi-media Musings of an All American Ego
Retrospective by Heather Harris, Rock's Backpages, 15 December 2000
L.A.-based photographer/writer Heather Harris was the last journalist ever to interview Tim Buckley. This is her account of the meeting she had with him in ...
Tim Buckley: Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology
Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, April 2001
FOR AN OVERVIEW of a career that began in seemingly humble singer/songwriter tradition, shot skyward in a surge of near-astonishing artistic ambition, then apparently fizzled ...
Tim Buckley: The Dream Belongs To Me (Manifesto)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, July 2001
NO COMPILATION HAS ever been adequate to the task of representing Tim Buckley in his full groove, strangeness and charm; this is a man responsible ...
Elektra Label: Various Reissues
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001
Twenty-album reissue programme commemorates a great Sixties label ...
School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008
"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...
'Song to the Siren''s irresistible tang
Retrospective by Martin Aston, The Guardian, 17 November 2011
Its writer refused to record it. Pat Boone almost killed it. Then it was resurrected as a B-side to an indie prestige project. Martin Aston on how ...
The Dream Belongs to Me: The Tragic Journey of Tim Buckley
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, November 2016
FIFTY YEARS AGO this month, an album was released that, in its own strangely magical way, managed to stand out among the recent folk boom ...
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