All but one of these eight songs from 1968 and 1974 are from the BBC. Five of the tracks were recorded in April 1968 for the
John Peel show, and previously released by Strange Fruit as the
Peel Sessions CD. These feature
Tim Buckley at his most melodic and intimate. As on his posthumously issued 1968 concert recording
Dream Letter, the instrumentation is sparser than on his Elektra albums. On these sessions, he was backed only by longtime guitarist
Lee Underwood and percussionist
Carter Collins. This quintet of tunes features songs from his second and third albums, as well as a couple of cuts that didn't make it onto records in the '60s, highlighted by a ten-minute medley of "Hallucinations" and "Troubadour." There are also a couple of less vital cuts -- "Dolphins" and "Honey Man" -- from a May 1974 broadcast. Ending the disc is a previously unreleased, live 12-minute version of "I Don't Need It to Rain," recorded in Copenhagen in October 1968 with
Underwood on guitar,
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on double bass, and
David Friedman on vibes. It's a reasonable, jazzy number in sync with the mood of
Blue Afternoon and
Dream Letter, but the fidelity, from a tape "found in a box of disintegrating reel-to-reels at
Tim's home," is muffled; a higher-energy and higher-fi version is on
Live at the Troubadour 1969.