Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a compilation album by the American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, released by Columbia Records on May 26, 1998,[1] a year after his death.

It comprises recordings Buckley made while working on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk, with the producer Tom Verlaine in 1996 and 1997.

He began recording his second album with the working title My Sweetheart the Drunk in late 1996 with the producer Tom Verlaine.

Soon after Buckley's memorial ceremonies, Guibert learned that Sony was in the process of mixing and mastering the Verlaine recordings for release.

[7] The biographers Dave Lory and Jim Irvin identified influences from Siouxsie and the Banshees on "Nightmares by the Sea" and "Witches Rave".

The reviewer Steve Hochman likened the track "Everybody Here Wants You" to a "70s-ish soul experiment worthy of Marvin Gaye or Al Green", and linked "New Year's Prayer" to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir".