So Real (Jeff Buckley song)
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| "So Real" | ||
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| Single by Jeff Buckley | ||
| from the album Grace | ||
| Released | 1994 | |
| Format | CD, LP | |
| Recorded | Bearsville Recording Studio, Woodstock, NY (Fall 1993) | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 4:43 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Producer(s) | Jeff Buckley Andy Wallace |
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| Grace track listing | ||
| "Lilac Wine" (4) |
"So Real" (5) |
"Hallelujah" (6) |
"So Real" is song #5 on Jeff Buckley's 1994 album Grace. It was also released as a single - the 3rd single from the album - and had a video.
Michael Tighe, a guitarist who joined Buckley late in the recording of Grace, brought with him what was to become the main riff on "So Real" that is played during the verses.
"Forget Her" was originally on the Album tracklist, but once he heard Tighe's riff, Buckley, a perfectionist by nature, is believed to have said that this was the song that would make the album what he wanted it to be, and subsequently replaced "Forget Her" with this song. The latter song, while not appearing on the album, was subsequently released on the second disc of the 10th anniversary Legacy Edition of Grace, and is also on the official Jeff Buckley site, with a recent video made of existing footage of Buckley while alive. This video is also found on the DVD that comes with the aforementioned legacy edition. [1]
It is also believed "Forget Her" was too personal a song for Buckley to place on the tracklist, and that this was another reason for the substitution.
"I love "So Real" because it's the actual quartet that you see in that picture right there that you have on the wall, on the album. And that one I produced live all one moment, the vocal is the first take, all one take. It was three o'clock in the morning." [2]
[edit] Notes
| Jeff Buckley |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums: Grace | Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | Songs to No One 1991-1992 |
| Live albums & Eps: Live at Sin-é | Live from the Bataclan | Mystery White Boy | Live a L'Olympia | The Grace EPs | Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition) | Live in Chicago |
| Singles: Grace | Last Goodbye | So Real | Everybody Here Wants You | Forget Her |
| Related articles |
| Tim Buckley | Gary Lucas | Chris Cornell | Matt Johnson |
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