Editing Jeff Buckley (section)

=== ''My Sweetheart the Drunk'' ===
{{Main|Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk}}

In 1996, Buckley started writing a new album with the working title ''My Sweetheart the Drunk''. While working with [[Patti Smith]] on her 1996 album ''[[Gone Again]]'', he met collaborator [[Tom Verlaine]], lead singer of the seminal punk-[[New wave music|new wave]] band [[Television (band)|Television]]. Buckley asked Verlaine to be producer on the new album and he agreed.<ref name="TheJBFAQ:Sketches">{{cite web|last=Kane |first=Rebecca |title=Sketches |website=jeffbuckley.com |date=July 20, 1998 |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/17sketches.html |access-date=June 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509154730/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/17sketches.html |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref> In mid-1996, Buckley and his band began recording sessions in Manhattan with Verlaine, recording "Sky Is a Landfill", "Vancouver", "Morning Theft", and "You and I".{{sfn|Lory|Irvin|2018|loc=chapter 9}} [[Eric Eidel]] played the drums through these sessions as a stop-gap after Matt Johnson's departure, before [[Parker Kindred]] joined as full-time drummer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kane|first=Rebecca|title=Who were the members of Jeff's band?|website=jeffbuckley.com|date=May 17, 1999|url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/08band.html|access-date=May 5, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029064639/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/08band.html|archive-date=October 29, 2013}}</ref> Around this time, Buckley met [[Inger Lorre]] of [[the Nymphs]] in an East Village bar{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=283}} and struck up a fast and close friendship.  Together, they contributed a track to ''[[Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness]]'', a [[Jack Kerouac]] tribute album.<ref name="TheJBFAQ:Sketches" /> After Lorre's backup guitarist for an [[Transcendental Medication|upcoming album]] quit the project, Buckley offered to fill in.{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=296}} He became attached to one of the songs from the album, "[[Yard of Blonde Girls]]" and recorded a cover.{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=315}} Another recording session in Manhattan followed in early 1997, but Buckley and the band were unsatisfied with the material.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/sketches-for-my-sweetheart-the-drunk-105779/|title=Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk|last=Fricke|first=David|date=May 7, 1998|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=October 10, 2019}}</ref>

On February 4, 1997, Buckley played a short set at [[the Knitting Factory]]'s tenth anniversary concert featuring a selection of his new songs: "Jewel Box", "Morning Theft", "Everybody Here Wants You", "The Sky is a Landfill" and "Yard of Blonde Girls".{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=299}} [[Lou Reed]] was in attendance{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=299}} and expressed interest in working with Buckley.<ref name="VillageVoice" /> The band played their first gig with [[Parker Kindred]], their new drummer, at [[Arlene's Grocery]] in New York on February 9. The set featured much of Buckley's new material that would appear on ''Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk'' and a recording has become one of Buckley's most widely distributed bootlegs.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kane |first=Rebecca |title=What Is Arlene's? |website=jeffbuckley.com |date=April 19, 1999 |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/20arlenes.html |access-date=June 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509154845/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/20arlenes.html |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref> Later that month, Buckley recorded a [[spoken word]] reading of the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] poem "[[Ulalume]]" for the album ''[[Closed on Account of Rabies]]''.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |last=Willner |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Willner |title=Closed on Account of Rabies |others=Various artists, [[Edgar Allan Poe]]|type=Liner notes |publisher=Paris Records |date=August 1997 |url=http://www.parisrecords.net/t-closedonaccountofrabies.aspx |access-date=June 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513221106/http://www.parisrecords.net/t-closedonaccountofrabies.aspx |archive-date=May 13, 2008 }}</ref> It was his last recording in New York; shortly after, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee.<ref name="JBcomBio" />

Buckley became interested in recording at [[Easley McCain Recording]] in Memphis, at the suggestion of friend Dave Shouse from the [[Grifters (band)|Grifters]].{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=294}} He rented a [[shotgun house]] there, of which he was so fond he contacted the owner about purchasing it.{{sfn|Browne|2001|page=1}} From February 12 to May 26, 1997, Buckley played at Barristers', a bar located in [[Downtown Memphis, Tennessee|downtown Memphis]], underneath a parking garage. He played there numerous times in order to work through the new material in a live atmosphere, at first with the band, then solo as part of a Monday night residency.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kane |first=Rebecca |title=Why is Barristers' Significant? |website=jeffbuckley.com |date=June 1, 1998 |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/23barristers.html |access-date=June 13, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509055458/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/23barristers.html |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref> In early February, Buckley and the band did a third recording session with Verlaine in Memphis, where they recorded "Everybody Here Wants You", "Nightmares by the Sea", "Witches' Rave" and "Opened Once",{{sfn|Lory|Irvin|2018|loc=chapter 9}} but Buckley expressed his dissatisfaction with the sessions and contacted ''Grace'' producer [[Andy Wallace (producer)|Andy Wallace]] to step in as Verlaine's replacement.<ref name="TheJBFAQ:Sketches" /> Buckley started recording demos on his own 4-track recorder in preparation for a forthcoming session with Wallace;<ref name="TheJBFAQ:Sketches" />{{sfn|Lory|Irvin|2018|loc=chapter 9}} some of the demos were sent to his band in New York, who listened to them enthusiastically and were excited to resume work on the album. However, Buckley was not entirely happy with the results and sent his band back to New York while he stayed behind to work on the songs. The band was scheduled to return to Memphis for rehearsals and recording on May 29.{{sfn|Lory|Irvin|2018|loc=chapter 9}}<ref name="JBcomBio" /> After Buckley's death, the Verlaine-produced recordings and Buckley's demos were released as ''Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk'' in May 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Forde|first=Eamonn|date=2021-08-31|title='These are his true remains': the fight over Jeff Buckley's final recordings|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/31/jeff-buckley-final-recordings|access-date=2021-11-07|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref>