Songs to No One 1991–1992 is an album of material from studio sessions, home tapes, and club performances recorded during the collaboration between Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas. The album is the result of an 8 month musical partnership between the duo, beginning in August 1991 and ending in April 1992. It serves as a musical archive of both artists’ aesthetic developments, before Buckley’s solo career began after his 1994 debut release, Grace. Background Gods and Monsters Originating in New York City after leaving Captain Beefheart, the first instalment of Lucas’s first self-directed band arose with a performance debut at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in Prospect Park, June, 1989. Named after Lucas’s favourite quote from the 1935 horror film Bride of Frankenstein, "To a new world of gods and monsters!", the then all instrumental congregation of musicians developed into a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band, Gods and Monsters. After the inclusion of the group’s first vocalist, Julia Heyward, the band expanded to 7-piece art-pop group, taking to the gigging scene of underground New York before being signed to Columbia Records in October 1989. However, this instalment of the Gods and Monsters ensemble proved to be problematic. Whilst having a female lead vocalist made for a tactical development in a commercial sense, the pair had mismatched intentions for what the band could be. Lucas referred to Heyward as a "constant adversarial headache", whose musical agenda was one of politics rather than poetry. These differing artistic directions lead Lucas and Heyward into conflict early on in their collaboration, resulting in having zero tracks committed to tape in over a year signed with Columbia . Reflecting on this partnership, Lucas stated in his book Touched by Grace that he "was pretty fed up with my musical partner and secretly dreamed of finding a male vocalist… a beautiful boy who could flat-out rock and not write peachy didactic lyrics". It was at this point, early spring of 1991, that New York producer Hal Willner contacted Lucas to invite the pair to perform at a Tim Buckley tribute concert, which took place later that year. Willner pushed Lucas to work on a rendition of 'Sefronia — The King’s Chain', a piece that would later see Lucas work with Jeff Buckley for the first time. Greetings From Tim Buckley Greetings From Tim Buckley was a tribute concert for the cult followers of folk come experimental