Stars In My Belly A Tribute To Jeff Buckley.

All Flowers In Time (Bend Towards The Sun) was one of several
rare Jeff Buckley songs that a good friend of mine gave me on a mini-disc
of songs which
he had found on Napstar.
It was recorded in a small bar with lots of background noise.
It must be a mini-disc recorder on the table with an external microphone.
You can hear
Jeff tuning up, which helped to work out the weird tuning,
and then he launches into this beautiful song which has hints of lyrics
which turn up later on Sketches For My Sweetheart... There is the
sense that this song is made up on the night. Some of the songs on that mini disc have turned up on legitimate
Jeff Buckley CD releases more recently however All Flowers never
has. I remember I was desperately trying to figure it out for an upcoming
tribute show and
there were no tabs on the net. One site had lyrics which were quite helpful.
Interestingly the one part of the song where I couldn't work out what he
was singing was also a blank on the lyrics on the net. We must have been
listening to the same recording. Perhaps the only recording. I now know he wrote the song with Elizabeth Fraser and there is a wonderful demo of it on the internet if you care to look it up I am deeply in debt to the beautiful work of Tania Bowra, Brendon
O'Brien and The Deadly Nightshades for the lovely harmonies and production. Sadly we did the wrong thing by Jeff Buckley, his manager and
the co-writer of the song, Elizabeth Fraser in releasing a song which the
author had not first released and we have agreed to withdraw the album and
more particularly the song from sale. If you have a copy cherish it and if
you don't, I'm sorry. You can purchase the album on iTunes but it no longer has my track on it.
Release Date: Monday 2 May 2005
Track Listing:
1. Dream Brother -
Matt Tonks
2. Last Goodbye - Paul Greene
3. Mojo Pin - Melanie Horsnell
4. Morning Theft - Wade Jackson
5. All Flowers In Time (Bend Towards The Sun) - Andy Gordon
6. Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Tania Bowra
7. Jewel Box - Mick Hart
8. Yard Of Blonde Girls - Cellar Door
9. Eternal Life - Michael Azzopardi
10. So Real - Matt Anderson
11. Opened Once - Edoardo Santoni