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'''Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk''', is a collection of both a complete album and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Not being completely satisfied with an album recorded in the summer of 1996, and early in 1997, he had begun work on many demos and had been reworking the already finished material to gain the sound he was hoping to achieve. To be titled ''My Sweetheart, the Drunk'', the album was never finished, as the rest of the band were traveling to meet Buckley at the time of his death. It was released posthumously on 26 May 1998 (see 1998 in music). Despite its unfinished state, the album garnered many positive reviews; ''The Onion's'' AV Club called it "frustratingly incomplete, but mostly remarkable". The production of this album was overseen by Chris Cornell.
"My Sweetheart the Drunk" was the working title that Jeff Buckley was using while writing and recording the album; the title was intended by his mother and sole heir of his estate, Mary Guibert, to be rendered with parentheses, as ''Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk)'', because Jeff's work was not finished, and therefore was just an outline, or "sketch", of what would have been released, had Jeff been able to complete this project.
Unauthorized recordings have surfaced of other material Jeff considered for the album, including a 4-track demo of "Witches' Rave", A previously unheard track called "Let's Bomb the Moonlight", and an original song called "You and I" that bears no relation to the released song of the same title. Other tracks, including a song called "Sky Blue Skin" (which has been confirmed to exist by Michael Tighe), have not yet surfaced.
Q placed it at #3 on their list of '10 Albums You Will Never Get Around to Playing Ever Again. Ever.'

Contents

Track listing

Samples

Personnel

Charts

Miscellaneous

Notes

Track listing

★ 'Disc One'
#"The Sky Is a Landfill" (Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe) – 5:09
#"Everybody Here Wants You" (Jeff Buckley) – 4:46
#"Opened Once" (Jeff Buckley) – 3:29
#"Nightmares by the Sea" (Jeff Buckley) – 3:53
#"Yard of Blonde Girls" (Audrey Clark, Lori Kramer, Inger Lorre) – 4:07
#"Witches' Rave" (Jeff Buckley)– 4:40
#"New Year's Prayer" (Jeff Buckley) – 4:40
#"Morning Theft" (Jeff Buckley)– 3:39
#"Vancouver" (Jeff Buckley, Mick Grondahl, Michael Tighe) – 3:12
#"You and I" (Jeff Buckley) – 5:39

★ 'Disc Two'
#"Nightmares by the Sea" (Unmixed) – 3:49
#"New Year's Prayer" (Unmixed) – 4:10
#"Haven't You Heard" (Jeff Buckley) – 4:07
#"I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be)" (Jeff Buckley) – 4:27
#"Murder Suicide Meteor Slave" (Jeff Buckley) – 5:55
#"Back in N.Y.C." (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford) – 7:37
#"Demon John" (Jeff Buckley, Michael Tighe) – 5:13
#"Your Flesh Is So Nice" (Jeff Buckley) – 3:37
#"Jewel Box" (Jeff Buckley) – 3:37
#"Satisfied Mind" (Red Hayes, Jack Rhodes) – 6:00
International (non-US) editions of Disc 2 include the bonus track "Gunshot Glitter" (Jeff Buckley) as Track 7 for a total of 21 tracks. The Japanese edition of Disc 2 also includes the bonus track "Thousand Fold" (Jeff Buckley) as Track 11 for a total of 22 tracks. ^[1]

Samples

Personnel

★ Jeff Buckley - guitar, vocals

★ Michael Tighe - guitar

★ Mick Grondahl - bass

★ Eric Eidel - drums

★ Parker Kindred - drums

★ Benjamin Goldstein - ?

★ Chris Theodore - ?

★ 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)

Year	Chart	Position
1998	The Billboard 200	64

Miscellaneous

★ Swedish Gothic Rock band Katatonia recorded a cover of "Nightmares by the Sea", which appeared on the "Tonight's Decision" album and then later on "The Black Sessions" compilation.

Notes

1. Kingdom For A Kiss - The JB F.A.Q.: Sketches