Song:Come Here Woman
Album:Starsailor
Fans of the late singer songwriter Jeff Buckley are probably not aware that his dad Tim Buckley was also a very talented musician who also died prematurely. I guess Jeff was a chip off the old block. Tim Buckley was born Feb. 14, 1947 in Washington, DC and grew up in Amsterdam, NY and then the Los Angeles suburb of Bell Gardens. He was a quarterback in high school but injured his hand and turned to music with the folk group The Bohemians. He started writing songs with Larry Beckett. They played gigs around Los Angeles and were spotted by Mothers Of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black. He took Buckley to manager Herb Cohen and this led to a contract with Elektra. The problem was that Buckley's music wasn't commercially successful. So he recorded a few albums and Cohen moved him to his own Straight label for Starsailor in 1970. But Buckley was getting into jazz so Starsailor was even less commercial. Then he started recording with funk musicians for his 1972 album Greetings From LA. There are Tim Buckley comps available but Come Here Woman is only on Starsailor and Rhino hasn't released a special edition of that CD yet. Of course Buckley was addicted to heroin. He tried to quit but relapsed and died of an overdose under very strange circumstances on June 29, 1975 at age 28. Tim Buckley has been very influential to a generation of singer songwriters but the general music buying public probably isn't familiar with him. Here's Tim Buckley performing Come Here Woman on The Show at Harrisburg, PA PBS station WITF 1970. You can get this on the 2007 DVD My Fleeting House.
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