World of Blue - Archived Forum 2007-2022

Jeff Buckley’s first recording sessions for Columbia Records have been unearthed, and are to be released as an album.

You & I, which will come out 16 March 2016, features Buckley performing nine covers and two originals – Grace, which became the title track of his debut album, and the previously unheard song Dream of You and I, described as “mysterious and haunting”. Among the covers are versions of Sly and The Family Stone’s Everyday People, Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman, and two Smiths songs, The Boy With the Thorn in His Side and I Know It’s Over. The release has been overseen by Buckley’s mother. Mary Guibert.

The songs were recorded at Shelter Island Sound studio in New York in February 1993, and were uncovered during research for the 20th-anniversary reissue of Grace. Although the songs have never been released in any form or – according to Sony Legacy, which is releasing the album – bootlegged, many of them were performed live by Buckley during his career.