Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser Duet
I was reading in Drum today of a Tim and Jeff Buckley tribute night at The Basement this Friday and was shocked to realize that Jeff Buckley would have been 40 on November 17. What would he be doing now if he hadn’t died so young? Perhaps something like this duet he did with his friend Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. ‘All Flowers In Time Bend Towards the Sun’ was never released and only performed a couple of times (including the only performance with the band at Jeff’s last Sydney show at the Coogee Bay Hotel in 1996). Below is a recording that I know nothing about. I don’t know where you can find it, where it was recorded, or when. All I know is that it’s Jeff and Elizabeth and an acoustic guitar. And it’s brilliant.
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Someone with a much less beautiful voice than Jeff Buckley is me. If you want to hear for yourself, I’ll be on Matt’s radio show Join The Dots tomorrow (Thursday) night on FBi (listen online here). I’ll be on just before 10pm talking about the Australia’s Top 25 Bands & Artists list. No idea what I’m going to say really. In the comments feel free to nominate an awkward word you’d like me to work into a conversation and I will try and do one or two (maybe). Be random. And tune in and see if you can join the dots.
November 15th, 2006 20:48
drop the word/s whiteboy
no particular reason hehe
November 15th, 2006 22:49
best of luck on the radio thing.
or as we say here: merde!
November 15th, 2006 23:15
Seems like FBI is having a lot of blogger guests lately, there was me, elmo, you and god knows who next.
I want you to say on air that you love U2 and not just cause your girlfriend makes you
November 16th, 2006 02:14
that’s a great song. you knew that she and jeff were briefly lovers, right?
November 16th, 2006 04:31
please repost. limit reached already. 8 hours ago was the original posting and already the limit has been reached. my heart is broken. please help.
November 16th, 2006 06:04
thanks kev!
dan: i do like U2…just not the last 2 albums. But i would not have gone to the shows if Amanda hadn’t been going.
Joseph…i did not know that.
November 17th, 2006 06:28
Me too – please repost! really really would love to hear this song.
November 17th, 2006 10:55
Yes, please repost!
November 17th, 2006 13:31
You should inform the general public about the powers of Aus music blogs, and tempt them to join our dark side.
Then we can rule the empire!
November 17th, 2006 16:00
i’ve reposted once already, and i’ll do it one more time. better get it!
November 17th, 2006 17:54
Heard you on the radio last night. Nice work fella. Those dulcet Canadian tones worked well on radio.
November 18th, 2006 21:20
haha thanks dan! have fun this weekend.
December 20th, 2006 19:43
Loved the duet with Jeff and Liz! Thanks for posting it!
January 25th, 2007 23:34
[...] You should really hear his duet with Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins, it remains officially unreleased but is a wonderful meeting of voices: Jeff Buckley and Liz Fraser All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun [...]
October 25th, 2007 15:15
amazing, thank you.
October 31st, 2007 08:55
I know it’s probably uncool to blow your own trumpet on these forums but it is a beautiful song and I recorded a version of All Flowers In Time… for a locally released Jeff Buckley Tribute album called Stars In My Belly. It is hard to get now because Jeff’s management were none to keen on us releasing an unreleased song and shut it all down. But there you go it is out there in some folks homes.