He Found Recording to Be Nerve-Racking
The first weeks of Grace’s recording sparked what could only be described as a “volcanic eruption of artistry” in Jeff. The artist played around with a string of different musical arrangements, treating the music studio as an experimental lab. Hundreds of ideas were thrown into the air and tested.
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As much as he enjoyed it, Buckley also felt that recording, as opposed to singing live, was an excruciating progress. “It’s obsessive because you’re dealing with ultimate things. It’s not like a live show where you play it and it just disappears into the air like smoke,” he confessed while promoting his album.
Recording Grace was nothing like his early spontaneous gigs in New York.