When “Grace” came out, it was generally lost in the din of grunge and hip-hop, and it was largely dismissed by the critics. However, Jeff Buckley’s musical heroes and contemporaries — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Chris Cornell and Bono, who called Buckley “a pure drop in an ocean of noise” — loved “Grace,” and it wasn’t long before it got its due.
Expectations were high for Buckey’s future, but these were cut short when he died in a drowning accident in the Mississippi River in Memphis, just three years after the album’s release, at only 30 years old.
Since then, “Grace” has only grown in significance. It is frequently on best album lists and one track, Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2014.
