Grace (Jeff Buckley album)

Grace
Studio album by Jeff Buckley
Released	August 15, 1994 (1994-08-15)
Recorded	Late 1993 – 1994
Studio	Bearsville, Woodstock, New York
Genre	Alternative rock[1] folk rock[2] jazz-rock[3]
Length	51:48
Label	Columbia
Producer	Andy Wallace, Jeff Buckley ("So Real")
Jeff Buckley chronology
Live at Sin-é (1993) Grace (1994) Live from the Bataclan (1995)
Singles from Grace
"Grace" Released: August 1994 "Last Goodbye" Released: January 1995 "So Real" Released: June 1995 "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. It was produced by Buckley and Andy Wallace.

After moving to New York City from Los Angeles in 1991, Buckley amassed a following through his performances at Sin-é, a cafe in the East Village and signed a record deal in 1993. He recorded Grace in Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, with musicians including Gary Lucas, Mick Grondahl, Michael Tighe and Matt Johnson. 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.