26: Jeff Buckley (11/17/66-5/29/97) "The Last Goodbye" for my new gallery "Telling
Stories from the Grave" and the November Song Titles/One Artist Challenge.



On the evening of May 29, 1997, Buckley's band flew to Memphis intending to
join him in his studio there to work on the newly written material. That same
evening, Buckley went swimming in Wolf River Harbor, a slackwater channel of
the Mississippi River, while wearing boots, all of his clothing, and singing
the chorus of the song "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. Buckley had gone
swimming there several times before. A roadie in Buckley's band, Keith Foti,
remained on shore. After moving a radio and guitar out of reach of the wake
from a passing tugboat, Foti looked up to see that Buckley had vanished.
Despite a determined rescue effort that night, Buckley remained missing. On
June 4, two locals spotted his body in the Wolf River near a riverboat, and
he was brought to land.