Tim Buckley “Goodbye and Hello” (1967) ...

Tim Buckley “Goodbye and Hello” (1967) Elektra

June of 1967 saw three Orange County lads, just two years out of Loara High School in Anaheim, collaborating on “Goodbye and Hello.” Tim Buckley was the singer with the sweet tenor, Larry Beckett the songwriter/poet, Jim Fielder the bass player.

These songs, with their folk and rock ‘n’ roll roots, are difficult to categorize, but their spacey idealism and a longing for tumultuous social change mark them indelibly as products of the ‘60s. Buckley’s melodic voice was wispy but powerful and carried a sense of tragedy that seemed to foreshadow his death (which came only eight years later, when he was 28).

“Goodbye and Hello” is one of nine albums Buckley recorded in his too-short career. Those who liked Buckley adored him, this reckless young man who “will sing you his 10 tales and then wander till spring.”