Sleepless (Peter Wolf album)

Sleepless
Studio album by Peter Wolf
Released	September 10, 2002
Recorded	Sear Sound, New York, NY
Genre	Rock, blues
Length	40:36
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.

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."

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,) – 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

• Peter Wolf – vocals (all tracks)
• Larry "Rock" Campbell – fiddle, guitar, mandolin, pedal steel, background vocals, resonator guitar, baritone guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12)
• Crispin Cioe – alto saxophone (3,4, 12)
• John Conte – electric bass (8, 11)
• Charley Drayton – drums (3, 7)
• Cornell Dupree – electric guitar, soloist (4, 5, 12)
• Ada Dyer – background vocals (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12)
• Steve Earle – vocals (10)
• Rob Eaton – background vocals (1)
• Laurence Etkin – trumpet (4, 12)
• Robert Funk – tenor trombone (4, 12)
• Tony Garnier – acoustic bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12)
• Milt Grayson – bass vocals (11)
• Arno Hecht – tenor saxophone (3, 4, 12)
• Mick Jagger – harmonica, vocals (2)
• Stuart Kimball – electric guitar (4)
• Duke Levine – guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, soloist (all but track 9)
• Magic Dick – harmonica (9)
• Warren McRae – electric bass (3, 7)
• Sammy Merendino – percussion (12)
• Brian Mitchell – accordion (11)
• Paul Ossola – electric bass, acoustic bass (9)
• Shawn Pelton – drums (all but track 3, 7)
• Angelo Petraglia – acoustic guitar (1, 4, 10)
• Dan Reiser – drums (11)
• Keith Richards – electric guitar, vocals (9)
• Catherine Russell – background vocals (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12)
• Kevin Shurtleff – percussion, drums (1, 3)
• Tom West – organ (10)
• Kenny White – organ, acoustic guitar, piano, background vocals, Wurlitzer (all tracks)
• Teresa Williams – background vocals (2, 10)
• Cire Jones – background vocals (3, 11)
• Fred Griffith – background vocals (11)

Production

• Peter Wolf - producer
• Kenny White - producer
• Rob Eaton - engineer
• Chris Rival - engineer
• Tom Waltz - engineer
• Dave Westner - engineer
• Ben Wisch - engineer
• Steve Mazur - assistant engineer
• Jacques Obadia - assistant engineer
• Rob Eaton - mixing
• Phil Greene - mixing
• Dave Westner - mixing
• Ben Wisch - mixing
• Bob Ludwig - mastering
• Rob Eaton, Dave Westner - recording
• Karen Rome - project coordinator
• Jill Dell'Abate - session coordinator
• Frank Olinsky - design
• Joe Greene - photography
• Frank Olinsky - cover photo

Charts

Album – Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
2002	Top Independent Albums	39