Sleepless (Peter Wolf album)

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Sleepless
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2002
Studio Sear Sound, Avatar, Globe Studios and Red House (New York, NY); Woolly Mammoth Sound (Boston, MA).
Genre Rock, blues [1]
Length40:36
Label Artemis
Producer Peter Wolf, Kenny White
Peter Wolf chronology
Fool's Parade
(1998)
Sleepless
(2002)
Midnight Souvenirs
(2010)
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Sleepless is the sixth solo album by Peter Wolf, released in 2002. The album ranked 427 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [1]

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Wolf told The Boston Phoenix in 2002 that he had a "pessimistic sensibility" in his approach to making the album with no great expectations about the album’s commercial viability after watching his previous record "die on the vine" due to his then label (along with several others) being "swallowed up in (a) big corporate conglomerate". He explained that he "made this record figuring, ‘I have a lot of different interests, a lot of different roots, and this is the painting I feel like painting right now.’ And what’s the single? There is no single. I wasn’t thinking of hooks." [2]

The album features notable guest appearances by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Wolf's former J. Geils bandmate, Magic Dick, and Steve Earle.

Track listing

  1. "Growin' Pain" (Angelo Petraglia, Wolf) – 3:12
  2. "Nothin' but the Wheel" (John Scott Sherrill) – 4:34
  3. "A Lot of Good Ones Gone" (Will Jennings, Wolf) – 3:33
  4. "Never Like This Before" (Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones, David Porter) – 3:21
  5. "Run Silent, Run Deep" (Timothy S. Mayer, Wolf) – 4:13
  6. "Homework" (Dave Clark, Al Perkins, Otis Rush) – 2:39
  7. "Five O'Clock Angel" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:00
  8. "Hey Jordan" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:03
  9. "Too Close Together" (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 2:24
  10. "Some Things You Don't Want to Know" (Jennings, Wolf) – 2:31
  11. "Oh Marianne" (Jennings, Wolf) – 4:19
  12. "Sleepless" (Jennings, Wolf) – 4:05

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 "Peter Wolf, 'Sleepless'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. Music | My dinner with Peter Archived 2013-04-02 at the Wayback Machine