Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley recorded Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah for his 1994 album Grace. The official album notes describe it as a solo performance recorded live in the studio, rather than a later concert rendition.

Electric guitar and voice carry the arrangement. The guitar’s repeating figures leave space for Buckley to vary the length and strength of each vocal phrase, so small changes in delivery create much of the performance’s movement.

This page uses the Grace recording. Continue through Jeff Buckley’s catalogue to compare its stripped-back setting with the full-band sound of the album’s original songs.