I was just having a whole long conversation about the Boston band Morphine, which then led to me thinking of other great Boston bands, including the Dambuilders, which was the first time I saw Joan Wasser live. I looked at her Wikipedia page and there were several things I didn't know in there. One question I saw asked here in this forum in the last month was whether it was certain or not that she and Jeff were ever actually engaged. I'd say her Wiki page referring to him as "her fiance of 3 yrs" pretty much answers that question, because if that wasn't true I can't imagine her leaving that up on her page.

Here's the rest of the section I found most interesting, mainly about Jeff. I didn't know most of this:

Black Beetle

In May 1997, her fiance of three years,^([15]) musician Jeff Buckley, drowned accidentally in Memphis.^([16]) She found it "such a traumatic experience of loss. I needed to grieve but I didn't know how".^([5]) She continued to play with Those Bastard Souls, a band started in 1995 by a close friend of the couple, Dave Shouse of Grifters. They made a record entitled Debt & Departure attempting to respond to Buckley's death.^([17]) In late 1997, she created a band with the remaining members of Buckley's band called Black Beetle and finished an eponymous album that was never released.^([18]) This was the first project where she was writing as well as fronting a band. She commented, "I found singing terrifying at first, I didn't know about the boundaries of my voice and I had no idea what words I wanted to say. The violin had been my voice for so long."^([5])