Artist: Mark Lanegan
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Discography:
Field Songs
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
I'll Take Care Of You
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Scraps At Midnight
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Whiskey For The Holy Ghost
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Mark Lanegan's solo albums ar sufficiently dissimilar in tone of voice from those of his steady radical, Screaming Trees, to make listeners marvel where his true interests lie. His records ofttimes engage a much more acoustic tonicity, and turn to a lot more serious, personal concerns. Despite ample critical spat, Lanegan always kept the Screaming Trees his primary concern (that is, until their separation). The original plan for Lanegan's number one solo recording was to do an EP of blues songs with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Chris Novoselic, as well as Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel. That didn't work out, and The Winding Sheet terminated up being recorded with Pickerel, guitar player Mike Johnson (later on bassist in Dinosaur Jr.), and famed producer Jack Endino on bass. Released in 1990, the record album included a cover of the Leadbelly sept number "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" from the aborted roger Huntington Sessions with Cobain and Novoselic; it became the ground for Nirvana's version on MTV Unplugged. Despite a good response from the tube, it took until 1994 for Lanegan's bright assured follow-up, Whisky for the Holy Ghost, to surface, which once again featured Johnson in a striking role. Afterwards, Lanegan in one case once again returned to Screaming Trees for what proven to be the band's last album, 1996's Dust. With the Trees on abatement, Lanegan resumed his solo life history with 1998's Food waste at Midnight, which followed in the mineral vein of its predecessors. The followup appeared much more chop-chop this clip; 1999's I'll Take Care of You was a quietly stunning covers album drawing on Lanegan's interest in roots music. Two long time later, Field Songs arrived. In November of 2003, after a short erolia minutilla as vocalist with Queens of the Stone Age (he american ginseng on the album Songs for the Deaf and appeared as part of the subsequent tour), the freshly formed Mark Lanegan Band released Here Comes That Weird Chill: Methamphetamine Blues, Extras, And Oddities, an EP that anticipated the Lanegan Band's first full-length album, Bubblegum. Featuring guest appearances from Polly Jane Harvey, Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri of QOTSA and quondam Guns 'n Roses members Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagen, Bubblegum was released in August of 2004.
