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Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead,<ref name="Browne2001p58">Browne (2001), p. 58</ref> was an United States|American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of the late Tim Buckley, also a musician. Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover versions at venues in Manhattan's East Village, Manhattan|East Village, such as Sin-Ã©, and he gradually focused more on his own material. After much interest from record labels he signed with Columbia Records|Columbia and, after recruiting a band, recorded his debut studio album, ''Grace (album)|Grace'' (1994).

Over the following two years the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1997 he stopped touring and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to experiment with new material for a second album. During his time there he recorded many Multitrack recording|four-track demo (music)|demos and completed his third recording session for his new album with his band, with Tom Verlaine as producer. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowning|drowned during an evening swim in the Wolf River (Tennessee)|Wolf River. His body was found on June 4, 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://liquidgnome.com/JeffBuckley/bio.html |title=Jeff Buckley - Biography |accessdate=2008-04-28 &l... read all