Midnight Souvenirs

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Midnight Souvenirs
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 6, 2010
Studio Sear Sound, Red House Studio, Joe Music Studio and Crushing Music (New York City, New York); Camp Street Studios (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Middleville Studios (North Reading, Massachusetts); 8H Studios (Boston, Massachusetts); Woolly Mammoth Studios (Waltham, Massachusetts); Shabby Road Studios (Somerville, Massachusetts).
Genre Rock
Length49:20
Label Verve
Producer Peter Wolf, Kenny White
Peter Wolf chronology
Sleepless
(2002)
Midnight Souvenirs
(2010)
A Cure for Loneliness
(2016)
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Midnight Souvenirs is the seventh solo album by Peter Wolf. It won the award for Album of the Year at the 2010 Boston Music Awards, [1] [2] was No. 27 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010. [3] It peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard 200. [4] The album has sold 42,000 copies in the United States as of March 2016. [5]

Contents

Eight of the album's songs were co-written with Will Jennings. [6] The track "Thick as Thieves" is a re-imagining of a track from Wolf's second solo album, Come as You Are. Wolf created the album's artwork himself. [6]

Track listing

  1. "Tragedy" (with Shelby Lynne) (Peter Wolf, Angelo Petraglia) – 4:30
  2. "I Don't Wanna Know" (David Johnston) – 2:54
  3. "Watch Her Move" (Wolf, Taylor Rhodes) – 3:58
  4. "There's Still Time" (Will Jennings, Wolf, Bob Thiele, Jr.) – 5:09
  5. "Lying Low" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:12
  6. "The Green Fields of Summer" (with Neko Case) (Jennings, Wolf) – 2:57
  7. "Thick as Thieves" (Wolf, Tim Mayer) – 2:44
  8. "Always Asking for You" (Jennings, Mayer) – 2:58
  9. "Then It Leaves Us All Behind" (Jennings, Mayer) – 3:33
  10. "Overnight Lows" (Wolf, Petraglia, Chuck Prophet) – 5:07
  11. "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky" (Allen Toussaint) – 2:14
  12. "Don't Try and Change Her" (Jennings, Mayer) – 3:33
  13. "The Night Comes Down (For Willy DeVille)" (Jennings, Mayer) – 3:57
  14. "It's Too Late For Me" (with Merle Haggard) (Jennings, Mayer) – 2:47

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [7] 45
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [8] 12
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [9] 14

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