Live at Sin-é by Jeff Buckley

Live at Sin-é, a four-song EP that Columbia put out on November 23, 1993, was the world's first proper taste of Jeff Buckley on record, and it catches him right where he'd built his following: on stage at a café in Manhattan's East Village, after a decade spent as a hired session guitarist in Los Angeles. There's no studio gloss here, just the raw nerve of a singer who could swoop from a murmur to a wail inside a single line.

It works as a trailer for Grace, the only studio album he would finish, which followed in 1994. After his drowning in 1997 his standing only grew, and the EP came back in 2003 in an expanded edition running past two hours, a much fuller picture of those East Village nights.

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