On February 4, 1997, Buckley played a short set at the Knitting Factory ‘s tenth anniversary concert featuring a selection of his new songs: “Jewel Box”, “Morning Theft”, “Everybody Here Wants You”, “The Sky is a Landfill” and “Yard of Blonde Girls”. Lou Reed was in attendance and expressed interest in working with Buckley. The band played their first gig with Parker Kindred , their new drummer, at Arlene’s Grocery in New York on February 9. The set featured much of Buckley’s new material that would appear on Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk and a recording has become one of Buckley’s most widely distributed bootlegs. Later that month, Buckley recorded a spoken word reading of the Edgar Allan Poe poem ” Ulalume ” for the album Closed on Account of Rabies . It was his last recording in New York; shortly after, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee.
Performance at Knitting Factory
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