Grace (Jeff Buckley album)

Grace
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 15, 1994 (1994-08-15)
RecordedLate 1993 – 1994
StudioBearsville, Woodstock, New York
Genre
Length51:48
LabelColumbia
ProducerAndy Wallace, Jeff Buckley ("So Real")
Jeff Buckley chronology
Live at Sin-é
(1993)
Grace
(1994)
Live from the Bataclan
(1995)
Singles from Grace
  1. "Grace"
    Released: August 1994
  2. "Last Goodbye"
    Released: January 1995
  3. "So Real"
    Released: June 1995
  4. "Eternal Life"
    Released: August 1995

Grace is the only studio album by the American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, released on August 15, 1994 in Europe and on August 23, 1994 in the United States by Columbia Records.

Buckley amassed a following through his performances at Sin-é, a cafe in the East Village, Manhattan, and signed a record deal in 1993. He recorded Grace in Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, with the producer Andy Wallace. It includes versions of the jazz standard "Lilac Wine", the hymn "Corpus Christi Carol" and the 1984 Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah".

Grace did not meet Columbia's sales expectations, reaching number 149 on the US Billboard 200, and initially received mixed reviews. Buckley died in 1997 while working on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk. After his death, the popularity and critical standing of Grace grew. It was praised by musicians including Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Bob Dylan and David Bowie. By 2011, it had achieved sales of two million, and in 2016 it was certified platinum in the US. Rolling Stone included Grace in three of its lists of the 500 greatest albums and named Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" one of the 500 greatest songs.

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