From Billboard
This day in music -1997:
"The body of Jeff Buckley is found floating in a harbor leading to the Mississippi River. Buckley had disappeared the previous Thursday while swimming with a friend in a Memphis harbor."

I can’t believe it’s been five years since Buckley’s death….it still seems unreal. “Grace” is one of my all-time favorite records (It's almost even more strange to realize it's been nearly 8 years since that album's release). Songs such as “Last Goodbye”, “So Real”, “Lover, You Should Have Over” spark with a fervent intensity. still when I listen to it I hear something raw – unfinished. I don’t think Jeff Buckley ever really had the chance to make the record he was truly capable of. Despite its title there are moments of inelegant gracelessness on the album – those clumsy instances, however, make me love the record even more – with its flaws, it’s endearingly human to me.
There are some traces of greatness of “Sketches (For my Sweetheart the Drunk” – but one could easily trim that two-CD set down to one disc and save the demo versions for another record.
As such, tonight I will play “Grace” in memory of the boy with the angel voice. For further reading on Buckley and his father Tim Buckley you should check out David Browne’s excellent biography ”Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley”.