“Mojo Pin” by Jeff Buckley

"Mojo Pin" had a life before Grace. Jeff Buckley first released it on the Live at Sin-é EP, then put it at the very front of Grace, the only studio album he made. He wrote it with Gary Lucas, and the music has its own history: an instrumental take without Buckley's voice, under the title "And You Will", turns up on Lucas's CD Level the Playing Field. Steve Berkowitz shares the production credit with Buckley.

By Buckley's account the song is about a dream, one involving a Black woman, and its tumble of strange images adds up to a craving, whether for a drug or for a person. The music drifts in a psychedelic haze and then breaks into hard rock. In concert it grew a long introduction, "Chocolate", in which Buckley sang in the style of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

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