YOU & I

Recently discovered in the Sony Music archives during the research for the 20th anniversary edition of Buckley's 'Grace' album, the performances on 'You And I' are a revelation, an intimate portrait of the artist performing a variety of cover songs and original music expressing a range of emotion channeled through his singular sensibility.

Long rumored to exist, as the Addabbo sessions, but previously unheard outside the studio, these seminal recordings are a fan's Holy Grail, a rare opportunity to hear Jeff Buckley in peak form, developing his artistry through a series of spellbinding solo performances, each one captured in pristine sonic detail.

The songs on 'You And I' reveal, in part, the eclectic scope of Jeff Buckley's extraordinary musical tastes and abilities. The covers on the album include Jeff's highly personal interpretations of songs written by Bob Dylan (Just Like a Woman); Sylvester Stewart (Everyday People, recorded by Sly & the Family Stone); Joe Green (Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin', recorded by Louis Jordan, Ray Charles and others); Bob Telson (Calling You, recorded by Jevetta Steele for the 1987 film Bagdad Caf ); Morrissey and Johnny Marr (The Boy with the Thorn in His Side and I Know It's Over, recorded by the Smiths); Booker T. Washington Bukka White (Poor Boy Long Way from Home, from a 1939 field recording made by John Lomax) and John Paul Jones/Jimmy Page/Robert Plant (Night Flight, recorded by Led Zeppelin).

Rounding out 'You And I' are two pieces of original music: the first-ever studio recording of his signature song, Grace (which Buckley cowrote with Gary Lucas) and Dream of You And I, a mysterious and haunting instrumental guitar piece which informs the deeply intimate and profoundly personal mood of the album.

These tracks offer an incredible, rare glimpse of an artist, alone, in the sacred space that is the studio. There's an intimacy and an honesty to the performances that's literally breathtaking.