Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk

Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a haunting, unfinished glimpse of where his music might have travelled after Grace. Released posthumously in 1998, it combines polished studio recordings with intimate demos, revealing both ambition and uncertainty. Songs such as “Everybody Here Wants You” and “Morning Theft” rank among Buckley’s finest, blending sensual soul, atmospheric rock and extraordinary vocal control. Elsewhere, rougher material captures an artist experimenting without settling on a final shape. Inevitably fragmented, the album lacks the unity of Grace, but its beauty, vulnerability and tantalising possibilities make it an essential, deeply moving companion piece.