Dream Brother - The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Reinterpreting the music of ‘60s troubadour Tim Buckley and his prodigiously talented son is a daunting prospect, so great is the legend that’s sprung up around them both since their freak untimely deaths (the former, a drug overdose; the latter, drowning in the Mississippi). IDream Brother/I succeeds not through radical reinterpretations or flamboyant histrionics--after all, who could compete with Jeff on that front?--but by virtue of a set of quiet, unfussy interpretations that sidestep melodrama or excess gravitas and let the good songs shine through. p The Magic Numbers contribute a delicate, harmony-laden take on Buckley elder’s "Sing A Song For You", while Fence Collective mainstay King Creosote envisages the title track from Jeff Buckley’s IGrace/I using acoustic guitar and quiet wheezes of accordion. Two highlights come from the American contingent, Texas troubadour Micah P Hinson and Michigan’s Sufjan Stephens, who turn out mesmerising takes on "Yard Of Blondes" and "She Is" respectively. Meanwhile, Tunng turn the album’s one modern interpretation, infusing "No Man Can Find The War" with the warm tick of folk-inflected electronica.--ILouis Pattison/I

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2006-07-07 rating:
Beautiful!
I think it is far to dismissive to say these are 'dismal approximations of the originals.' If you put stubborn-mindedness aside and take these covers as a new peice of material and approached them with an open mind you will find many great tracks here. It includes some talented emerging artists.

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review by: date: 2006-06-29 rating:
Get over it
This album is covers not the originals, not its not Tim and Jeff so if you are so blinkered that even the thought of someone covering them brings you out in hives, then this is not for you. This is particularly the case as unlike lots of dull cover albums the versions on here are quite different to the originals. As for comments like `when you cover a pair of artists who were as talented as Jeff Tim, you be asking for trouble' get over it. Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be touched, people who like music (I not talking about the bed wetter who pulls out the old `tortured soul' line), real music fans like music because it pushes forward with the odd nod to what came before. br / br /In summary if you love Tim and/or Jeff because your a music fan always searching for something new and existing this is a worthwhile investment, some outings stronger than others but on the whole a good CD. br / br /Now if you love Tim and/or Jeff with some sort of weird serial killer like obsession or if you cannot accept that music is music (as the Jessie Jackson quote goes) then save your money and at the next opportunity attempt to look yourself in the mirror and ask why do I continue with this `I like music' façade. Find something that you genuinely like and leave the music to someone else, your just kidding yourself.

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review by: nixon_fiend date: 2006-02-02 rating:
a bit off
when you cover a pair of artists who were as talented as Jeff tim, you be asking for trouble. Of course, the covers are all rather dismal approximations of the originals.. it's nice that they're tried to approach the songs from a different 'angle' as it were... but to completely lose what made those great is a poor do. The magic numbers cover is actually very good.. gaunty and with the same 'spirit' as the original.. but the others are plain baaaad.. 'yard of blonde girls' cover is especially offensive.. lacking even a coherent melody.. makes you realise how damn good the originals were.. but to the reviewer who dissed the notion of an album about the both of them... get over it.. they were the same kind of musician, bound by blood, a guitar and a slice of talent.. but tim was a fair bit better.. it's more of an insult to him to be included with Jeff than vise versa . and "tortured soul?" oh for pity's sake, this ain't emo.

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review by: date: 2006-01-15 rating:
An Absolute Disgrace
Compare stories between Jeff and Tim Buckley. Tim; self-satisfied, uncaring father. A cult figure. Jeff; a bipolar (manic-depressive), tortured soul, permanently scarred by meeting his father once, when he was ten, and never again. Writing angelic music; singing it likewise. You simply cannot put them in the same boat merely because they are father and son; their music wasn't even similar. This is not worth your money.


review by: withdean1 date: 2005-12-01 rating:
hidden gems
tracks by sufjan stevens, king creosote,adem and stephen fretwell are superb. i love the music of both jeff and tim (less so) and are familiar also with the above artists and think the versions are a credit to BOTH the original and contemporary artist. way above the quality of a normal tribute album.

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