So Real (Jeff Buckley song)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“So Real”
“So Real” cover
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 Jeff Buckley
Andy Wallace
Jeff Buckley singles chronology
"Last Goodbye"
(1994)
"So Real"
(1994)
"Everybody Here Wants You"
(1998)
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 Buckley subsequently replaced it with So Real. The former, 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]

"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] Track listing

  1. "So Real"
  2. "Lost Highway"
  3. "Tongue"

[edit] Notes