Back to Sin-'e, Jeff covers Leonard Cohen's haunting "Hallelujah," choosing to cover the John Cale version (and with good reason). As Jeff described it in an interview, "Hallelujah" is a song about the primitive emotions of love and sex, the almighty orgasm. His voice gives dimensions to the song that take it from being a classic song of earthly love to being something ethereal, indeed heavenly.

Sin-'e covers include Dylan's "Like a Woman", a song that before I heard Jeff do it was just another Dylan great - I had no idea of the song's sexual connotations. Buckley has a way of doing that with pretty much any song he chooses, but not in a lascivious way - his is a much more organic and real feel, perhaps the way all good love should be.

At his live shows, Buckley would often play his own version of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" in a very quiet and plodding style - Buckley really emphasizes shock, horror, violence and injustice as a witness to a lynching, and fortunately this is included on the Sin-'e re-release.

There is also a ton of noodling here, and while I typically loathe that sort of thing, Jeff is an amazing guitar player and he makes it almost like listening (almost - but not quite) to Hendrix in practice, and that's a real compliment in my book.

Bob Telson's "Calling You" is resurrected and sounds gorgeous and lush with the velvety tones of Buckley's voice. This is a new fave for me.

I would be remiss not to mention "Last Goodbye," Jeff's best-known song. If I hadn't fallen in love with "Lover..," this would be my favorite song of heartache and breakup. Jeff had amazing insight into the pain and ache of losing that which makes us feel immortal: love.

Jeff and his bandmates were working on a new studio release in Memphis at the time of his death. An unusually early evening of playing music ended at dusk and as they passed a local tributary to the Mississippi river, Buckley, a man guided by "living in the moment," requested they stop by the side of the road so he could go for a quick swim.

As dusk turned to dark, the pitch-black of the murky river swallowed his slender body in a passing undertow and we were all deprived of his beauty forever. His death is a "tear that hangs inside my soul forever" with the knowledge that his voice will never be heard anew ever again.

If you don't own anything by Jeff Buckley, start with Grace, then, if you like it, or love it as I do, buy Live at Sin-'e. I typically shy away from live versions of anything, but sadly a Jeff Buckley fan must take whatever material is available, and this is more than good enough.