Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk - Definition and Overview

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a collection of four-track demos and other sessions recorded by Jeff Buckley. It was released posthumously on 26 May 1998. The demos were recorded for an album - to be titled My Sweetheart, the Drunk - which was never finished, as the rest of the band was traveling to meet Buckley at the time of his death. Despite its unfinished state, the album garnered many positive reviews; The Onion's AV Club called it "frustratingly incomplete, but mostly remarkable". The title is sometimes rendered with parentheses, as Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk).

Track listing

all songs by Jeff Buckley, except where noted

1. "The Sky Is a Landfill" (Buckley, Michael Tighe) - 5:09
2. "Everybody Here Wants You" - 4:46
3. "Opened Once" - 3:29
4. "Nightmares by the Sea" - 3:53
5. "Yard of Blonde Girls" (Audrey Clark, Lori Kramer, Inger Lorre) - 4:07
6. "Witches' Rave" - 4:40
7. "New Year's Prayer" - 4:40
8. "Morning Theft" - 3:39
9. "Vancouver" (Buckley, Mick Grondahl, Tighe) - 3:12
10. "You and I" - 5:39
11. "Nightmares by the Sea" - 3:49
12. "New Year's Prayer" - 4:10
13. "Haven't You Heard" - 4:07
14. "I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be)" - 4:27
15. "Murder Suicide Meteor Slave" - 5:55
16. "Back in N.Y.C." (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford) - 7:37
17. "Demon John" (Buckley, Tighe) - 5:13
18. "Your Flesh Is So Nice" - 3:37
19. "Jewel Box" - 3:37
20. "Satisfied Mind" (Red Hayes, Jack Rhodes) - 6:00

Personnel

• Jeff Buckley - guitar, vocals
• Eric Eidel - drums
• Benjamin Goldstein -
• Mick Grondahl - bass guitar|bass
• Parker Kindred - drums
• Chris Theodore -
• Michael Tighe - guitar

Production

• Producers: Nicholas Hill, Tom Verlaine
• Engineers: Jeff Buckley, Michael J. Clouse, Ray Martin, Irene Trudel
• Assistant engineers: Jim Caruana, Joe Lizzi, David Seitz
• Mixing: Tom Cadley, Michael J. Clouse, Mary Guibert, Tom Verlaine, Andy Wallace
• Mixing assistant: Steve Sisco
• Art direction: Nicky Lindeman, Gail Marowitz
• Design: Nicky Lindeman, Gail Marowitz
• Photography: Merri Cyr
• Liner notes: Bill Flanagan, Mary Guibert

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)