Jeff Buckley’s links to Ireland

If he’d lived, Jeff Buckley would have been 50 next week, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

Early on in his solo career, singer-songwriter, Jeff Buckley picked up a Monday night residency at an Irish bar in New York named Sin-é. Between reinterpreted covers of Led Zeppelin and Edith Piaf, the young musician would throw in his own compositions. It was here that he would hone his craft. As it turns out, the venue was also the latent inspiration behind an RTÉ Radio Documentary which airs this Saturday afternoon entitled Sin-é: Jeff Buckley’s Irish Odyssey.

The 45-minute documentary focuses on the sweet-voiced singer’s relationship with Ireland and is timely given that Buckley would have been 50 next week.