Jeff Buckley
Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk 3LP vinyl

We'll never know for sure what artistic heights Jeff Buckley might have gone on to reach, since he was taken from us so obscenely early, with only time enough to complete one album and begin work on a second. With the help of SKETCHES, though, we can make some educated guesses. This double-disc, lovingly assembled by Buckley's friends, colleagues and family, gathers together both his studio efforts and home 4-track demos for the album he was trying to complete up until his tragic drowning. The studio sessions, produced by Tom Verlaine, find Buckley downplaying his phenomenal vocal abilities somewhat, in favour of focusing on the songs, from the Zeppelinisms of "The Sky Is A Landfill" to the undoubtedly Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan-influenced "New Year's Prayer" and the beautiful, ethereal "You & I". The home demos show Buckley's more experimental, playful side, an aspect of his music presumably encouraged by his pals/heroes The Grifters, whose lo-fi masterpieces inspired Buckley to work in the same studio in Memphis. The closing "Satisfied Mind", from an earlier live radio broadcast, is a touching elegy to an artistic flame that was extinguished far too soon.

NEW / Released in 1998 / Reissue 2018

Tracklist:

A1 The Sky Is A Landfill

A2 Everybody Here Wants You

A3 Opened Once

A4 Nightmares By The Sea

B1 Yard Of Blonde Girls

B2 Witches' Rave

B3 New Year's Prayer

C1 Morning Theft

C2 Vancouver

C3 You & I

D1 Nightmares By The Sea

D2 New Year's Prayer

D3 Haven't You Heard

D4 I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)

E1 Murder Suicide Meteor Slave

E2 Back In N.Y.C.

E3 Gunshot Glitter

F1 Demon John

F2 Your Flesh Is So Nice

F3 Jewel Box

F4 Satisfied Mind