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Mar 8, 2016Occasionally, there's a slight surprise--Buckley attempts Bukka White's Delta stomp on a slippery, slurred version of "Poor Boy Long Way from Home" -- but usually, You & I feels of piece with the rest of his early work.
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UncutMar 7, 2016It's covers that make the bulk of the songs, and some are more successful than others. [Apr 2016, p.90]
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Mar 7, 2016Whether it was classic rock or the blues, Buckley’s covers were never simply exercises in imitation, always revealing a part of him, but it’s his original material, too little of which is found here, that truly provides a glimpse into his soul.
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Mar 16, 2016A good 80% of You and I, the latest album of the lot, consists of covers, many already released in some format.... The new material includes a version of "Grace" that is basically a fully formed demo, while "Dream of You and I" is barely even that; the title is literal, Buckley thinking aloud about a dream he had about a band’s "space jam," which inspired him to write what’d eventually become "You and I."
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Mar 9, 2016You and I is more a raw sketch than a fully formed portrait of a 26-year-old artist still coming to terms with what he wanted to say and how he wanted to say it.
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Mar 7, 2016It’s upon closer inspection that You And I starts to lose some of its luster. To start with, some of these songs have appeared in various forms across his live catalog.
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Mar 14, 2016There is a very good reason this has sat in a vault for 23 years: it fails to capture Buckley’s magic as well as the Live at Sin-é EP, which would be his debut release later in 1993.
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Mar 10, 2016Putting to the test the number of posthumous albums that one died-too-soon musician can bear comes You & I, the fifth collection of tracks.... It is painful, not least because these are unpolished demos and covers on which Buckley’s voice is tart enough to make your face pucker.
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MojoMar 7, 2016Worth a listen, but not game-changing. [Apr 2016, p.103]
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Q MagazineMar 7, 2016These recordings feel more an exercise in keeping Buckley's name alive than effectively deepening his work. [Apr 2016, p.106]