Jeffrey Scott Buckley, raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by performing cover songs at venues in East Village, Manhattan, such as Sin-é, while gradually focusing more on his material. After rebuffing interest from record labels and Herb Cohen—the manager of his father, singer Tim Buckley signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.
In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. On May 29, 1997, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Mississippi River, where he was caught in the wake of a passing boat; his body was found on June 4.
Why did Jeff Buckley change his name?
According to a search, ‘Scottie’ was raised by his mother and stepfather, Ron Moorhead, before officially changing his name to Jeff Buckley in the wake of the early drug overdose death of Tim, at just 27 years of age. Ron raised Buckley on a steady, primarily hard-rock diet of the usual suspects: Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, and of course, Led Zeppelin.
But once Buckley began to master the guitar, his musical palette soon became even more extensive and eclectic, incorporating jazz giants and the Mingus, Ellington, and Davis varieties as well as being heavily influenced by French Chanteuse Edith Piaf and the likes of Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and Nina Simone.
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