Tim Buckley

Dreamily handsome, possessed of a genuine, if eccentric, poetic gift, capable of singing a veritable choir of voices, and brandishing an archetypal romantic sen-sibility, Tim Buckley was a sort of late-'60s folkie Coleridge -- overwhelmed by the gods with too many gifts. His work was as ambitious as that of any of his contemporaries: It was also a commercial disaster. His fatal overdose in 1975, h...