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Title: A good start
Review: I really wanted to like this. I've heard so many people gush over Jeff Buckley and how wonderful he is and how I absolutely *must* get this album. I even pretended to like it, because I felt like I ought to. But, well, I don't. There's some good stuff here, but, having listened to so much of Tim Buckley's music, I can't help feeling what Jeff did was only a good start. Tim really knew his voice and did some amazing things with it. Jeff was a good interpreter of others' songs, but he hadn't quite arrived as a songwriter. Tim, of course, wrote his share of duds, but he wrote some wonderful songs, too. And his best ones sound effortless, which is more than you can say for Grace. Sketches... shows Jeff moving in a really interesting direction, and it's unfortunate we'll never see him fulfill his potential.
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