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Grace E.P.

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The live versions of "Grace" and "Mojo Pin" sound just like the versions on "Mystery White Boy", and they probably are the same ones since they were recorded from the same tour. Nothing new there. But the version of "Hallelujah" here is not like the original, and it's even more beautiful here than the album version. Jeff improvises new lyrics at the end and it takes a turn or two. Buy it only for this song. I wish Columbia would dig into their vaults and release some songs we haven't heard before (and there are MANY ...). I will buy anything Jeff Buckley ever recorded, and I'm sure his other fans will, too, but we really don't need 50 versions of each song from "Grace" when there are countless other songs that we've never even heard.

This Grace ep contrasts Jeffs live performances against his album "Grace". It is a must buy for any Jeff Buckley fan and anyone who likes good music!

This is a pretty good single, featuring "Grace" from the album GRACE, the recording of "Grace" from the MYSTERY WHITE BOY album, and great recordings of "Mojo Pin" and "Hallelujah" from the same show as "Grace." Since these three songs were recorded and released very late in the tours supporting GRACE (in 1996, long after Jeff wanted to stop and begin preliminary work on his second, never-to-be-completed album), they are not exactly typical performances; one hears Jeff stretching out and trying to continually perform these songs in new ways. "Mojo Pin" is more hallucinatory and truncates the end of the song, and "Hallelujah" sounds as if it was recorded on a very cold, sad night. It has an amazing ending though, and is ultimately as life-affirming as each of the other recordings. Having three songs from the same show together also illuminates the direction towards which Jeff was heading towards the end of his live career. Very cool and very worth picking up. However, this single has just been rereleased internationally as part of the GRACE EPS box set, in which you can get this (with a bonus track!) and four other difficult to find singles with various live rarities and the few B-sides Jeff actually recorded. It's a better deal, and it has more material. As long as that is in print, there's really no reason to buy this exact item per se.