Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon (1970)

There were some names that just had a magical hold on me when I was a teenager. Like Jackson Browne, Kevin Coyne, Peter Hammill, Kevin Ayers, Nick Drake, Roy Harper, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, David Bedford, Pete Sinfield, Roger Dean... and Tim Buckley.

I never really got to hear much of Buckley's music until later, but his early '70s albums, like 'Blue Afternoon' which radiates a stark, stunning dark beauty, never cease to stir the soul. This is mind-and-heart music that has the kind of a spooky, haunting quality which can transform your vision of life.