Live At Sin-E (Legacy Edition)

『Live at Sin-e』レガシーエディションの初アナログ盤化。エレキ・ギター1本のエモーショナルな弾き語りで観客を魅了するジェフ・バックリーの魅力満載のLPボックス。

Rolling Stone (3/10/94, p.65) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...for depth and daring, this is music vast in suggestiveness....thematically complex and sharply imagistic...unified by yearning and an honest passion that refuses to inhibit intelligence...." Rolling Stone (10/30/03, p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The yowl of his voice and the clang of his guitar couldn't drown out the roar of his raw ambition....Blues, R&B, folk rock, acid rock, classic rock and grunge were just the beginning..." Entertainment Weekly (12/26/03-1/2/04, p.142) - Ranked #8 in Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "Records of the Year" - "...This double-disc expansion finally allows us to hear more: rapturous covers...between-song wisecracks, and to-the-bone renditions of his own tunes..." Q (12/03, p.148) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Bittersweet and beautiful..." Q (12/03, p.148) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Bittersweet and beautiful..." Uncut (11/03, p.124) - "...Jeff Buckley would never sound this free again. At a key turning point in his all-too-brief career, hear his unruly magnificence ignite..." Uncut (11/03, p.124) - "...Jeff Buckley would never sound this free again. At a key turning point in his all-too-brief career, hear his unruly magnificence ignite..." Alternative Press (9/03, p.120) - "...[With] plenty of between-song banter that displays the comical side of this dearly departed crooner..." Alternative Press (9/03, p.120) - "...[With] plenty of between-song banter that displays the comical side of this dearly departed crooner..." Melody Maker (4/9/94, p.30) - "...Jeff Buckley has created one of the albums of the year with just a Telecaster and a voice that sounds like a choirboy singing from the rafters of a whorehouse. Buy it and melt..." Melody Maker (4/9/94, p.30) - "...Jeff Buckley has created one of the albums of the year with just a Telecaster and a voice that sounds like a choirboy singing from the rafters of a whorehouse. Buy it and melt..." Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #5 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best EPs Of 1993. Stereo Review (4/94, p.90) - Performance: Astonishing / Recording: Good - "...Here's a prime example of someone who's singing solely because the spirit moves him....Jeff's main instrument is his voice, which swoops, soars, pounces cat-like, feints and dodges, extending syllables into a wordless wilderness of pure expression...." Mojo (Publisher) (11/03, pp.138-9) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Throughout, Buckley refashions the material in a singular style that was equal part rapturous romance and bitter pain..." Mojo (Publisher) (11/03, pp.138-9) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Throughout, Buckley refashions the material in a singular style that was equal part rapturous romance and bitter pain..." NME (Magazine) (4/9/94, p.40) - 6 - Good - "...LIVE AT SIN-E captures Buckley still shaping his identity, hopefully the promise it displays will come to fruition..." NME (Magazine) (4/9/94, p.40) - 6 - Good - "...LIVE AT SIN-E captures Buckley still shaping his identity, hopefully the promise it displays will come to fruition..."

Jeff Buckley resented being called a folk singer, but he made his name playing solo sets like this one on the New York coffee circuit. Sony released this live EP before his first fully produced rock album, Grace, perhaps to attract attention to the raw power of Buckley's greatest gift, his voice. These four songs certainly accomplished that end. Buckley hurdles seemingly unreachable octaves, suspends notes for what seems like minutes, and belts out his falsetto without a scintilla of restraint. That's a positive inasmuch as it allowed him to show off his considerable talent; it's a negative when it sounded like he was showing off. But his ten-minute cover of Van Morrison's "The Way Young Lovers Do" is a tour de force of strumming and scatting, and his acoustic "Eternal Life" has an electricity that is paradoxically lacking on the plugged-in album version. [A deluxe edition released after his death added dozens of additional live tracks.] ~ Darryl Cater