Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
CD, USA, 1998, C2K67228
CD, USA, 1998, C2K67228
| Tracklist: Disc 1: 01. The Sky is A Landfill 02. Everybody Here Wants You 03. Opened Once 04. Nightmares By The Sea 05. Yard of Blonde Girls 06. Witches' Rave 07. New Year's Prayer 08. Morning Theft 09. Vancouver 10. You & I Notes: | the least complete version of 'Sketches' - Missing 'Gunshot Glitter' and 'Thousand Fold', which can be found on other versions. The album title comes from the phrase 'My Sweetheart the Drunk', found in a Poem of Jeffs called 'Sexpot Despair'. At the time of Jeff's death, there were only three recording sessions for his second album: one in Manhattan in the summer of 1996, another in Manhattan in early 1997, and the last in Memphis shortly after, in 1997. The first disc of Sketches is taken from the recordings done with Tom Verlaine. These sessions where initially scrapped, as Jeff was unsatisfied with the outcome of these sessions. The second disc is from Jeff's 4 track demo recordings that he'd made for Andy Wallace, who was set to replace Verlaine at Jeffs request. "[Jeff] described the album to me as a guidebook for losers in love." -- Andy Wallace (producer of Grace and Mixing on Sketches) (Irvin, Jim. "It's Never Over." Mojo, August 1997, Issue 45, Pages 32-38) "[the next album will be] a really radical evolution from Grace, just because we've been together as a band for so much longer than that. On Grace, we had just been together for maybe five weeks and Michael [Tighe] wasn't even in the band. And now everybody really has a really integral part in the way the music's made. It'll be better." -- Jeff Buckley (Kingsmill, Richard. Triple J Radio Interview. December 1995.) Jeff Buckley : Guitar, Vocals Eric Eidel : Drums Mick Grondahl : Bass Parker Kindred : Drums Michael Tighe : Guitar Jeff Buckley : Engineer, Main Performer Tom Cadley : Mixing Jim Caruana : Assistant Engineer Michael J. Clouse : Engineer, Mixing Merri Cyr : Photography Bill Flanagan : Liner Notes Benjamin Goldstein Mary Guibert : Liner Notes, Mixing Nicholas Hill : Producer Nicky Lindeman : Art Direction, Design Joe Lizzi : Assistant Engineer Gail Marowitz : Art Direction, Design Ray Martin : Engineer David Seitz : Assistant Engineer Steve Sisco : Mixing Assistant Chris Theodore Irene Trudel : Engineer Tom Verlaine : Mixing, Producer Andy Wallace : Mixing |