5 Great Bands With Only One Studio Album
3. Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley's music lives in a world that seems disconnected from all other popular music. His sound was one part blues rock, one part folk, one part R&B. The common thread that combined each of these disparate genres was Buckley's voice, which sounded like a cross between Robert Planet and Thom Yorke.
Buckley broke onto the rock scene in the mid 90's and was put under the alt-rock label with most of his contemporaries. Throughout his album Grace, Jeff gives spectral performances from blistering heaviness on songs like "Dream Brother" to the floating croon on "Lilac Wine." The album also contains what has got to be the best cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Throughout each of these tunes, Buckley possesses the ethos of a wounded spirit as he uses these songs to peel back the layers of his broken heart.
As fate would have it, Jeff's ghostly demeanor would become all too real. While working on his second release in 1997, Buckley was found dead in the Wolf River Harbor in Memphis, having drowned in the river. Even in death, Buckley's irreplaceable voice will continue to reverberate throughout the music world for years to come.