Sleepless (Peter Wolf album)
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Sleepless is the sixth solo album
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 by Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf is an American Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Rock and Roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983; and for a successful musical solo career to date with writing partner Will Jennings.- Life and career :Wolf was born in the Bronx, New York...

, released in 2002. The album ranked 432 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Track listing

  1. "Growin' Pain" (Antonio Petraglia, Wolf) - 3:12
  2. "Nothing But the Wheel" (John Scott Sherrill
    John Scott Sherrill
    John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. He has written songs for such artists as John Anderson, Brooks & Dunn, Jimmy Buffett , Johnny Lee, George Strait, Steve Wariner, Patty Loveless, Josh Turner, Waylon Jennings, Alison Krauss, Peter...

    , Wolf) - 4:34
  3. "A Lot of Good Ones Gone" (Will Jennings
    Will Jennings
    Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...

    , Wolf) - 3:33
  4. "Never Like This Before" (Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...

    , Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime...

    , David Porter
    David Porter (musician)
    David Porter is an American soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s...

    , Wolf) - 3:21
  5. "Run Silent, Run Deep" (Timothy S. Mayer, Wolf) - 4:13
  6. "Homework" (Dave Clark, Al Perkins
    Al Perkins
    Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....

    , Otis Rush
    Otis Rush
    Otis Rush is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes...

    ) - 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
    Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Willie "Sonny Boy" Williamson was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, from Mississippi. He is acknowledged as one of the most charismatic and influential blues musicians, with considerable prowess on the harmonica and highly creative songwriting skills...

    , Wolf) - 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
    Singing
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  • Larry "Rock" Campbell
    Larry Campbell (musician)
    Larry Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist who plays many stringed instruments in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock...

     - fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

    , guitar
    Guitar
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    , mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

    , pedal steel, background vocals, resonator guitar
    Resonator guitar
    A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar whose sound is produced by one or more spun metal cones instead of the wooden sound board . Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than conventional acoustic guitars which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion...

    , baritone guitar
    Baritone guitar
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  • Crispin Cioe - alto saxophone
    Alto saxophone
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  • John Conte - electric bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Charley Drayton
    Charley Drayton
    Charley Drayton is an American multi-instrumental musician and producer, who has played as a drummer and bass guitarist for many bands and artists and is currently the drummer in Australian rock bands Divinyls and Cold Chisel....

     - drums
    Drum kit
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  • Cornell Dupree
    Cornell Dupree
    Cornell Luther Dupree was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis and Steve Gadd, appeared on David Letterman, and wrote a book on soul and blues guitar: Rhythm and Blues Guitar ISBN 0-634-00149-3...

     - electric guitar
    Electric guitar
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    , soloist
  • Ada Dyer - background vocals
  • Steve Earle
    Steve Earle
    Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....

     - vocals
  • Rob Eaton
    Rob Eaton
    Rob Eaton is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with the renowned Grateful Dead tribute band, Dark Star Orchestra, of which he has been a member since 2001.-Career:...

     - background vocals
  • Laurence Etkin - trumpet
    Trumpet
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  • Robert Funk - tenor trombone
  • Tony Garnier
    Tony Garnier (musician)
    Tony Garnier is an American bassist , best known as an accompanist to Bob Dylan, with whom he has played since 1989...

     - acoustic bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

  • Milt Grayson - bass vocals
  • Arno Hecht - tenor saxophone
    Tenor saxophone
    The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

  • Mick Jagger
    Mick Jagger
    Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....

     - harmonica
    Harmonica
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    , vocals
  • Stuart Kimball - electric guitar
  • Duke Levine - guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, soloist
  • Magic Dick
    Magic Dick
    Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz was the harmonica player for The J. Geils Band. In addition to the harmonica, Salwitz plays the trumpet and saxophone. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he met John "J" Geils and Danny Klein and became a founding member of...

     - harmonica
  • Warren McRae - electric bass
  • Sammy Merendino - percussion
  • Brian Mitchell - accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

  • Paul Ossola - electric bass, acoustic bass
  • Shawn Pelton
    Shawn Pelton
    Shawn Pelton is a New York City-based studio and session drummer. Pelton has worked with the Backstreet Boys, Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion and Billy Joel...

     - drums
  • Angelo Petraglia - acoustic guitar
  • Dan Reiser - drums
  • Keith Richards
    Keith Richards
    Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...

     - electric guitar, vocals
  • Catherine Russell
    Catherine Russell
    Catherine Russell is a British stage, television and screen actress.-Personal:Catherine Russell is the daughter of actor Nicholas Smith and his wife Mary. She is married to film producer Richard Holmes and they have two children, Sam and Poppy...

     - background vocals
  • Kevin Shurtleff - percussion, drums
  • Tom West - organ
    Organ (music)
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  • Kenny White
    Kenny White
    Kenny White is a singer-songwriter from New York City. Originally known mostly as a writer of music for radio and TV commercials and a producer and session keyboard player, in 2002 he released his first album, and began touring to promote his albums...

     - organ, acoustic guitar, piano
    Piano
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    , background vocals, Wurlitzer
  • Teresa Williams - background vocals

Production

  • Producers: Peter Wolf, Kenny White
  • Engineers: Rob Eaton, Chris Rival, Tom Waltz, Dave Westner, Ben Wisch
  • Assistant engineers: Steve Mazur, Jacques Obadia
  • Mixing: Rob Eaton, Phil Greene, Dave Westner, Ben Wisch
  • Mastering: Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....

  • Recording: Rob Eaton, Dave Westner
  • Project coordinator: Karen Rome
  • Session coordinator: Jill Dell'Abate
  • Design: Frank Olinsky
  • Photography: Joe Greene
  • Cover photo: Frank Olinsky

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
2002 Top Independent Albums 39
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