Peter Wolf - Sleepless Album

With the Sleepless album, Peter Wolf returns to his R&B, soul and country roots with an effort worthy of the legend he inspired on his early discs. The album is a warm love letter to everything the singer holds dear, but his lyrics have a bittersweet edge that dispel the blues caricature that he had embraced in the past. Wolf's songwriting has never been better. The beautiful "Five O'clock Angel", his duet with Mick Jagger on the country blues tune "Nothin' But The Wheel,” and the album closer "Sleepless" were standouts for me here. Wolf has said that he was given a piece of advice from the great country singers to keep it simple and tell the truth. That’s exactly what he does here to beautiful effect.