| Rebel, Sweetheart | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Wallflowers |
| Cover: | The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart.jpg |
| Recorded: | July 2004–2005 |
| Studio: | Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta Georgia, additional recording at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood California |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, roots rock |
| Label: | Interscope |
| Producer: | Brendan O'Brien |
| Prev Title: | Red Letter Days |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Rebel, Sweetheart is The Wallflowers' fifth album, released in 2005. The two singles released from this album were "The Beautiful Side of Somewhere" and "God Says Nothing Back." The single "The Beautiful Side of Somewhere" hit #5 on AAA radio stations.
The album has sold approximately 116,000 copies, according to Billboard and Nielsen Soundscan.
The album received a score of 73 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally positive reviews." In a positive review, Allmusic wrote "not that Rebel, Sweetheart offers anything all that different from previous Wallflowers albums -- they just do what they do better than they have before." RollingStone magazine also praised the album, writing "Dylan sings these adult tales of disillusionment and perseverance with the gritty timbre of a young Warren Zevon" while naming "Here He Comes (Confessions of a Drunken Marionette)" as the standout track on the album. Other reviews were less positive, with Uncut magazine giving it 6 out of 10 stars and calling it "accomplished but seldom inspired."
In an interview with Uproxx in 2021, Dylan fondly remembered recording the album with Brendan O'Brien and said he still likes the album "quite a bit." He commented that "sonically, it sounds very similar to those Bruce Springsteen records that Brendan was making at the time" [1]
All songs written by Jakob Dylan.
British bonus track
Japanese bonus track
Personnel adapted from Rebel, Sweetheart liner notes [2]
The Wallflowers
Additional personnel