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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