For those preferring to watch the concert footage without the interview segments that appear between songs, a “Just Play the Music” feature will enable the viewer to bypass the interview footage.

The second component of “Grace Around The World” is an audio CD configuration of the 10 live song performances from the DVD, all previously unreleased on CD. The disc will also feature previously unreleased additional versions of “Grace” and “So Real” from a 1995 performance on MTV’s 120 Minutes.

The third component of the deluxe “Grace Around The World” is Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley, a one-hour DVD documentary created by filmmaker and longtime friend of Jeff Buckley, Laurie Trombly, alongside Nyla Bialek Adams and sanctioned by Mary Guibert. Included are rare  perform­ances and outtakes (culled from the Columbia Records archives), footage, and interviews with him. There are interviews with a variety of artists (painter, dancer, poets, singers, and so on) who pay tribute to Buckley’s influence on them. Interviews also include all
three surviving members of the Jeff Buckley Band, friends, family, colleagues, DJ’s, producers, critics and fans.

“Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley” travels from Sydney, New York and London, to Memphis, Montpellier, and Los Angeles, as it presents a very indie and intimate look at Buckley’s relationship to his music. The film has been screened 30 times over the past several years and has won numerous festival awards, including the Seattle Film Festival, San Francisco World Film Festival, CMJ, among others.

Finally, “Grace Around The World” will include a liner notes booklet curated by Buckley’s former publicist Howard Wuelfing. The notes will be a montage of interviews with Mary Guibert, band members Michael Tighe (guitar, backing vocals), Mick Grondahl (bass), and Matt Johnson (drums), members of Buckley’s touring team, and press quotes from vintage tour reviews.

The magnitude of Jeff Buckley’s popularity around the world is underscored by the continuing best-selling sales of Grace in 2008-2009, with total worldwide sales over 3.4 million copies. Australia leads the tally at 6-times platinum. France, Ireland, Belgium have all logged double-platinum sales. The UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, and Czech Republic are all in the platinum column. And Grace is gold in the US (over 800,000 copies sold), Sweden, Switzerland, and Portugal.

The centerpiece of “Grace Around The World” is “Hallelujah,” the Leonard Cohen song that became a signature track for Jeff Buckley. The song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 (his first #1), and was certified RIAA platinum on April 22nd, for sales over one million copies. It has been heard at countless crucial moments in movies and on such television shows as the season finales of The O.C., The West Wing, Third Watch, and Without A Trace. In the February 2009 issue of Blender magazine, “Hallelujah” was featured as that month’s “Greatest Song Ever” (a monthly feature).

In the UK, “Hallelujah” began to enjoy renewed commercial success as a digital download single in late 2008, when a version by X Factor winner Alexandra Burke and Buckley’s original studio version (from Grace, the best known version) hit #1 and #2 respectively on the UK Singles Chart. Each has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since then, making it the fastest-selling digital single in European history. Leonard Cohen’s original 1984 version of the song also hit the UK chart at #34. Back in 2005, it was named the 10th greatest Canadian song of all time in Chart magazine’s annual readers’ poll.