Tim Buckley
The Peel Sessions
Strange Fruit records, 1993
1 Morning Glory
2 Coming Home to You (Happy Time)
3 Sing a Song for You
4 Hallucinations/Troubadour
5 Once I Was
Review by Richie Unterberger
Recorded in April 1968 for the BBC, these five songs -- a short album, or long EP's, worth -- show Buckley at his most melodic and intimate. As on his posthumously issued 1968 concert recording Dream Letter, the instrumentation is sparser than on his Elektra albums. On these sessions, he was backed only by longtime guitarist Lee Underwood and Carter Collins on percussion. This set features songs from his second and third albums, as well as a couple of cuts that didn't make it onto record in the '60s. Highlighted by a ten-minute medley of "Hallucinations" and "Troubadour," it's a worthwhile addition to the Buckley canon.
