New Buckley Material Coming, Mom Says

Both as an attempt to keep fans happy as well as keeping her son's music and spirit alive, Mary Guibert, the mother of the late Jeff Buckley, posted a letter on Buckley's web site stating a record containing his last recordings will be released sometime in the near future. A few weeks ago, JAMTV reported that Buckley's family and Columbia Records together decided to put the project on hold until they felt they had taken enough time to mourn properly.

In the letter at www.jeffbuckley.com, Guibert talks of how once she started listening to the tapes she realized there was plenty of material to choose from for a posthumous record. She said how excited the music makes her feel and that she will release as much of it as she can -- including live material from Buckley's Live and Sine sessions.

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Song Stories

“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

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