Grace

Jeff Buckley was singing covers in a tiny East Village cafe when Columbia signed him. He recorded Grace in Woodstock in 1994 with producer Andy Wallace, the engineer who had mixed Nevermind: seven originals and three covers, including Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, which his version turned into a standard. The album barely sold at first. Three years later Buckley drowned in a Memphis river at thirty, partway into the follow-up, and Grace slowly became one of the most loved rock records of its decade.