After a week off, Rizzo Music continues with the 2 week tradition of “Song Of The Week”. This week we examine a classic, “Sleepwalker” by The Wallflowers. This gem is a single off of their third studio album, Breach. This was the last single from the Wallflowers to break into the top 40 on either the Mainstream or Modern Rock Chart.
I have always been a fan of this song but recently I came across a great acoustic version that I would like to share with you. It can be found on Imeem, or you can listen to it by clicking here. It is not often that I prefer a revision of an original song but this is one of them. While the original is still solid, Jakob Dylan brings the song to a different level in this version.
You get that live feel to the song without sacrificing the sound quality. You can sense that there is a lot of emotion in the lyrics that he sings: a sense that is lost in the single version. It loses the pop rock feel as well as the clapping, and what is left is a raw look at a great song.
I also included the original song and music video below just in case you do in fact prefer it.
In any case, it is one of my favorites from The Wallflowers, a band that I was lucky enough to see live about a year ago. They put on a great show.
Currently, they are not on tour while Jacob does his thing on his own. He is touring Europe right now, promoting his solo album.
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I kind of feel like the Wallflowers didn’t get all the respect that they deserved exactly.
They had some pretty great songs, although the problem being back in the day you had to actually buy the album to hear them all.