Mark Lanegan ...
Singing with a deep, nicotine-ravaged growl that's rich, strong, and sensuously forbidding, Mark Lanegan first rose to fame when his band the Screaming Trees won a taste of mainstream recognition in the '90s. Though his first success was tied to the grunge scene, Lanegan subsequently carved out a strong identity of his own as a vocalist and songwriter. Lanegan's music is nearly always informed by the blues, but the singer is willing to take his darkly poetic sensibility wherever his muse points him. His solo work has veered from the semi-acoustic atmospheres of 1990's The Winding Sheet and 1998's Scraps at Midnight to the adventurous hard rock of 2004's Bubblegum and 2012's Blues Funeral and to the clean electronic surfaces of 2014's Phantom Radio. And Lanegan has been a frequent collaborator with a number of noted artists, including Greg Dulli, Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, Soulsavers, and Duke Garwood.
Born in Ellensburg, Washington on November 25, 1964, Lanegan, by his own word, he grew up in a dysfunctional household and developed a powerful appetite for liquor and drugs in his teens that led to scrapes with the law. When he was 18, he struck up a friendship with Van Connor, who shared Lanegan's interest in music. Lanegan originally agreed to play drums in a band with Van and his brother, Gary Lee Connor, but when it was decided Lanegan was a better singer than a percussionist, Mark Pickerel came on board to play drums with the band that became known as the Screaming Trees. The Screaming Trees released their first album, Clairvoyance, in 1986, but it wasn't until 1992 that the band scored a commercial breakthrough when their song "Nearly Lost You" -- which appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Singles as well as their album Sweet Oblivion -- became a surprise hit thanks to extensive MTV play.
By the time "Nearly Lost You" hit the charts, Lanegan had already launched a solo career. He and Kurt Cobain shared a passion for the blues, particularly the music of Lead Belly, and the two formed a side group with Krist Novoselic and Mark Pickerel known as the Jury, with a plan to record an EP of Lead Belly tunes. While the Jury project soon fell apart, Lanegan used a recording of Lead Belly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" with Cobain and Novoselic as the launching pad for his darkly atmospheric solo debut, 1990's The Winding Sheet. The album earned enthusiastic reviews, but after the success of "Nearly Lost You," Lanegan and the Trees hit the road for a long tour; by most accounts, the group had a strained relationship in the best of circumstances, and as weeks turned into months on the road, the hard-drinking band clashed frequently. After the Sweet Oblivion tour ran its course, the group took a break and Lanegan cut another solo album, 1994's Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, a more dynamic set that once again impressed critics with Lanegan's powerful vocals and deep lyrical visions. In 1996, the Screaming Trees finally released their follow-up to Sweet Oblivion, but Dust failed to live up to the commercial success of their breakthrough album, despite the modest success of "All I Know" as a single and the band joining the bill for the 1996 Lollapalooza tour.
In 1998, Lanegan released his third solo album, Scraps at Midnight, followed by I'll Take Care of You, a collection of covers, in 1999, and in 2000, after playing a show to celebrate the opening of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Screaming Trees announced they were breaking up. With his main band out of the picture, Lanegan began to dive deep into collaborations with other acts; he'd already contributed to tribute albums honoring Willie Nelson and Skip Spence and appeared on Mike Watt's solo debut, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, and in 2000, he performed guest vocals on the breakout album from Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R. While Lanegan was never an official member of QOTSA, he became a valuable ally to leader Josh Homme, contributing vocals and collaborating on songs for 2002's Songs for the Deaf, 2005's Lullabies to Paralyze, and 2013's Like Clockwork. In 2003, Lanegan worked with former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli on the sophomore album from Dulli's project the Twilight Singers, Blackberry Belle, and he would also appear with Dulli on two subsequent Twilight Singers albums, 2004's She Loves You and 2011's Dynamite Steps. Dulli and Lanegan would also record a collaborative album under the name the Gutter Twins, 2008's Saturnalia. In 2005, Lanegan recorded an EP of duets with Isobel Campbell, formerly of Belle & Sebastian, entitled Ramblin' Man; the pair would go on to record three full albums together, 2006's Ballad of the Broken Seas, 2008's Sunday at Devil Dirt, and 2010's Hawk. The U.K. electronic group Soulsavers brought Lanegan in to sing on their albums It's Not How Hard You Fall, It's the Way You Land (2007), Broken (2009), and The Light the Dead See (2012). And Lanegan became a regular contributor to the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, an ad hoc ensemble that interpreted songs by the late Gun Club frontman; Lanegan appeared on the albums We Are Only Riders (2009), The Journey Is Long (2012), and Axels & Sockets (2014).
While some of Lanegan's collaborations got more press than his own work during this period, he hardly had his solo career on the back burner. 2001's Field Songs offered the sort of dark, roots-oriented songs that were his trademark, and 2004's more rock-oriented Bubblegum was the first album credited to the Mark Lanegan Band, though instead of a set band, the tracks featured a rotating variety of accompanists including Josh Homme and Polly Jane Harvey. A second Mark Lanegan Band set, Blues Funeral, appeared in 2012, while Lanegan dropped two albums in 2013, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood titled Black Pudding, and a second album devoted to covers, Imitations. 2014 brought a third full-length from the Mark Lanegan Band, Phantom Radio, and in 2015, Lanegan partnered with a handful of producers and remix artists (including Moby, UNKLE, Soulsavers, and Mark Stewart) to create A Thousand Miles of Midnight: Phantom Radio Remixes. By this time, Lanegan's solo career had generated enough music to merit two different retrospective releases; in 2014, Light in the Attic issued the career-spanning compilation Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011, while in 2015 Sub Pop released One Way Street, a vinyl-only collection that featured new LP pressings of Lanegan's first five solo albums. In 2017, Lanegan released Gargoyle, an album written with his frequent collaborators Alain Johannes and Rob Marshall; it also featured guest appearances from Josh Homme and Greg Dulli. Lanegan and Duke Garwood teamed up once again to record 2018's With Animals, a set dominated by spare and evocative electronic accompaniment. 2019's Somebody's Knocking was another project that teamed Lanegan with Johannes and Marshall, while Greg Dulli contributed guest vocals on the song "Letter Never Sent."
( Artist Biography by Mark Deming)
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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanega - ''La Route Du Rock''
(Saint-Malo, France 19/02/2011)
1. We Die And See Beauty Reign
2. You Won't Let Me Down Again
3. Come Undone
4. Snake Song (Townes Van Zandt cover)
5. Free to Walk (Jeffrey Lee Pierce cover)
6. Honey Child What Can I Do?
7. Keep Me In Mind, Sweetheart
8. The Circus Is Leaving Town
9. Time Of The Season
10. Eyes Of Green
11. Something To Believe
12. Salvation
13. Come On Over (Turn Me On)
14. Ramblin' Man (Hank Williams cover)
2. You Won't Let Me Down Again
3. Come Undone
4. Snake Song (Townes Van Zandt cover)
5. Free to Walk (Jeffrey Lee Pierce cover)
6. Honey Child What Can I Do?
7. Keep Me In Mind, Sweetheart
8. The Circus Is Leaving Town
9. Time Of The Season
10. Eyes Of Green
11. Something To Believe
12. Salvation
13. Come On Over (Turn Me On)
14. Ramblin' Man (Hank Williams cover)
"The Lonely Night"
here come the lonely night
i can’t escape my mind
from a broken bough
fall into finite space
with the roof torn down
this house is an empty place
so tired of wandering around and starting over
no garden grows here now just the one leaf clover
and when the windows shuttered
it’s always dark inside
sometimes the pain is absurd
still it’s what fate decides
thought i saw jesus come down
dressed like a soldier
i used to cry like a clown
and now i’m older
here come the lonely night
can’t escape my mind
and the grinding wheel turns
and the heavens burn
as the pilot ignites is a lesson learned
a sullen look of concern
it might make you sad
like the fluttering bird in a dream you had
here come the lonely night
i can’t escape my mind
i saw jesus come down
dressed like a soldier
once i cried like a clown
now i’m older
here come the lonely night
can’t escape my mind
''Snake Song''
You can't hold me
I'm too slippery
I do no sleep in
I get lonely
You can touch me
If you want to
I got poison
I just might bite you
Lie in circles
On the sunlight
Shine like diamonds
On a dark night
Ain't no mercy
In my smilin'
Only fangs and
Sweet beguiling
Future, he don't
Try to find me
Skin I been through
Dies behind me
Solid hollow
Wrapped in hatred
Not a drop of
Venom wasted
You can slip in
Try to find me
Hold your breath and
Flat deny me
It makes no difference
To my thinkin'
I'll be here when
You start sinkin'.
here come the lonely night
i can’t escape my mind
from a broken bough
fall into finite space
with the roof torn down
this house is an empty place
so tired of wandering around and starting over
no garden grows here now just the one leaf clover
and when the windows shuttered
it’s always dark inside
sometimes the pain is absurd
still it’s what fate decides
thought i saw jesus come down
dressed like a soldier
i used to cry like a clown
and now i’m older
here come the lonely night
can’t escape my mind
and the grinding wheel turns
and the heavens burn
as the pilot ignites is a lesson learned
a sullen look of concern
it might make you sad
like the fluttering bird in a dream you had
here come the lonely night
i can’t escape my mind
i saw jesus come down
dressed like a soldier
once i cried like a clown
now i’m older
here come the lonely night
can’t escape my mind
''Snake Song''
You can't hold me
I'm too slippery
I do no sleep in
I get lonely
You can touch me
If you want to
I got poison
I just might bite you
Lie in circles
On the sunlight
Shine like diamonds
On a dark night
Ain't no mercy
In my smilin'
Only fangs and
Sweet beguiling
Future, he don't
Try to find me
Skin I been through
Dies behind me
Solid hollow
Wrapped in hatred
Not a drop of
Venom wasted
You can slip in
Try to find me
Hold your breath and
Flat deny me
It makes no difference
To my thinkin'
I'll be here when
You start sinkin'.
''Come Undone''
I stumble and I fall, your time is on my side
Don't make sense of it all, despite my foolish pride
It's got me on my knees, tearin' up my heart
I'm shakin' at my bones, tearin' me apart
When I can't get close to you
I come undone, I come undone
Come undone, babe, I come undone
Time will take its toll, time can break your heart
And if I had the chance, we'd never have to part
Took my only flame, took my one desire
Threw it all away when jumping in the fire
I can't get close to you
I come undone, come undone
Come undone, babe, I come undone
When the day is done I lay me down to rest
Everyone will see that I loved you the best
When all is said and done here simple and explain
And if I have the chance I'll do it all again
But I can't get close to you
I come undone, I come undone
Come undone, babe, I come undone
I'm not scared of the dark though you tangle and tease me
But worse than your bark you said you'd never leave me
The devil make everybody, don't please believe me
Oh love of my life, won't you let me down easy?
Undone, I come undone
Come undone, babe, I come undone
I come undone, I come undone
Come undone, babe, I come undone
"You Won't Let Me Down Again"
You sold your soul
When you drank the morning dew
Down on your luck
And so thirsty through and through
The crack in the mirror
Tells of seven years of pain
And you won't let me down again
Drive through the night
Just to see the ocean green
Race to the coast
There's no telling where I've been
Both eyes on the road ahead
Don't wanna look behind
And you won't let me down again
Ten miles of the city
And I lose you in the rain
So you won't let me down again
Aeroplane, aeroplane
Race across the fields
Taking me home
Was further from the deals
Your father was a weaker man
Give up without a sound
But you won't let me down again
Strength is in the solitude
I tried to obtain
But you won't let me down again
A head full of visions
I struggle to recall
Those ancient of wisdoms
Are poured into us all
Air will crackle in the heat
The harvest moon will reign
And you won't let me down again
And I don't look for pity
So if it's all the same
You won't let me down again
You won't let me down again
''Seafaring Song''
I have travelled the world around
Wondered far from home
Sailed the ocean in foreign skies
I have travelled the world around
Wondered far from home
Sailed the ocean in foreign skies
Still further to go
Back into my babies arms
From this world of woe
That was such a long long time ago
Captain hollered the Cabin Boy
Stared into the sun
Shadows waltzing so close behind
Ever far I run
Back into my babies arms
Safe from this world of woe
That was such a long long time ago
Sirens capture my trembling heart
What's to be will be
Moon is hidden, the deal is done
Spread your wings for me
Back into my babies arms
Rising soft and low
That was such a long long time ago
"Come On Over (Turn Me On)"
Like a thief
Crawling through the night
Like a drunk
Brawling in a fight
How she gonna know what is
Right from wrong
Come on over, turn me on
Sunday best
You're my favourite suit
You make the team
You're no substitute
I know baby I'm your
Favourite son, listen up babe
Come on over, turn me on
Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
I lay awake all night
Is it any wonder
On a Sunday soon
I see the light
Tell me baby
Tell me pretty lies
See the spider
Been out catching flies
Will you leave me I know it
Won't be long before you
Come on over, turn me on
Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
I lay awake all night
Is it any wonder
On a Sunday soon
I see the light
Like a blind man
Driving at the wheel
Like a hound dog
Scratching out a meal
You and I both know it
You belong
Come on over, turn me on
''Who Built The Road''
Who built the road that led to my self esteem?
Twisted and crushed, black metal and bones
Who passed the buck? Who pressed my flesh to yours?
Spilling like wine and sweeter than tears
Oh, I hope we more than survive
With trembling visions that terrify
So who built the road? Who turned it all around?
Picked through the wreck scrambled in the dust
Who built the road? Who was the foolish one?
Step at a time, two hearts in the fire
Who lit the touch? Who fanned the flames?
With sparks in the dust, spent rivers of desire
Oh, why don't we learn from mistakes?
We stumble along with so many more to make
So who built the road? Who could foresee?
That the answers we sought were many miles to go
We were so lonely at times
Fading away, sitting side by side
And we built the road, we were the chain gang
The cross that I bore the devil at my side
Dark angel within the everlasting fire
''Man In The Long Black Coat''
Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
Windows wide open African trees
Are bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hangin' around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask
Somebody said from the Bible he'd quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat
Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat
She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people don't live or die people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote
She gone with the man in the long black coat
''I Am The Wolf''
I am the wolf
Without a pack
Banished so long ago
I've survived
On another’s kill
And on my shadow home
All I've learned is that poison will sting
No one remembers the names of martyrs or kings
No one remembers much of anything
That came this way before
I am the wolf
Combing the beach
Too hungry to shy away
The carcass of a leviathan
Sways gently on the waves
I hope this shelter is enough to keep me warm
Upstairs the heaven's giving birth to winter's storm
But I've been dying since the day I was born
That much I know is true
I am the wolf
High, wild and free
A picture on a shelf
I burn this house
Down to the ashes
A law unto myself
All I've learned is that poison will sting
No one remembers the names of martyrs or kings
No one remembers much of anything
That came this way before
That came this way before
I am the wolf
I am the wolf
I am the wolf
''Ugly Sunday''
I feel your blood run cold
And it's a rainy sunday morning
I count the million miles I'm driftin'
From here, to hell
Today
Behind their windows people stare
Can't recognize the kindness there
Just prayers for drownin' ships at sea
None for me
And you
It'll take a hard rain to wash your taste away
Still I wish there was a reason left to stay
I'm drunk half blind
And it's an ugly sunday morning
The wind arrives with the clouds refusing to break
Apart, like me
Why if all the world's stopped turnin'
How can all this rain keep fallin'
Washin' me a million miles away
From you
Why if I'm so alone now
Is it getting hard, to say goodbye now
Goodbye now
Deepest Shade
Fly...
The boy dead taked shade
Around yell down the line
His love she lost in mind.
But I....
I never flow let blind
Get through darkest wide.
They say it comes to you
My love I hope it's true
This deepest shade of blue
My love I give to you.
Take
Takes me baby
As I'm bleed
Owe love in you and me
The love unreal in me.
And I...
Love you until I die
I love you until tonight.
They say it comes to you
My love I hope it's true
This deepest shade of blue
My love I give to you.
Wait me and feel
My love for you it's real
You don't kiss me lied you did?
My love I give to you.
''Hit the city''
The dark descends through the promised land
Down kingdom come and the acid ban
I'm Babylon burned inside out
Nothing to kill it
I hit the city
In Marianne I dug the hole
And watched her trip on my hollow soul
And in the end of that crawled, was my skin
I couldn't kill it
I hit the city
I hit the city
Ghost arrives at its bitter end
To the promised land and the dark descents
I'm Babylon, burned inside out
Nothing to kill it
I hit the city (x5)
1,2,3,4
I hit the city
One Way Street
The stars and the moon, aren't where they're supposed to be
For the strange electric light, it falls so close to me
Love,I come to the ride, I'm not sea sick, rolling wave
And you know that I am, just trying to get out
Oh, the glorious sound, of the one way street
But you can't get, can't get it down without crying
When I'm dressed in white, send roses to me
I drink so much sour whiskey I can hardly see
And everywhere I've been, there's a world that HOWLS my name
From the one tiny STING, to that vacant fame
Oh, the DEAFENING roar, remember that's called a one way street
And you can't get, can't get it down without crying
Mysteries aside, you can't get out
It's like a tropic light, you can't get out
Love I come to the ride, I'm not sea sick, rolling wave
As away that I fall, trying to get out
Oh, the glorious sound, of the one way street
And you can't get, can't get it down without crying
Creeping Coastline Of Lights
Leaving Hollywood
Sunset to the sea
Where the waves
Ride in on horses
I'm looking for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
The seas and the trees
Calling me
She's a river between day and night
I'm looking for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
She's comin down
From her mountian
Shinin white light
Like a fountain
And I'm lookin for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
And I'm lookin for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
CRIPPLE CREEK
A cripple on his deathbed and the daydream he did ride,
All past the streams of fire on a pedal path did glide,
He left his wheelchair spinning deeper in the mud.
in it set its memories, its body and its blood.
An angel came to greet him by his side she flew,
whispered as a part of him what he already knew,
his head was spinning freely and it was plain to see,
this burden was himself, he bore, the sight his eyes can see.
His death, it died quite easily, right there was gone for good,
but couldn't see his loved one, like he thought he should
he thought "if they were gone", said he, "then this cannot be true"
the search to find what wasn't there, is what brought him back to you.
A L B U M S
Phantom Radio
00:00 Harvest Home (3:07)
03:07 Judgement Time (2:22)
05:29 Floor Of The Ocean (4:38)
10:07 The Killing Season (3:35)
13:42 Seventh Day (4:38)
18:20 I Am The Wolf (3:32)
21:52 Torn Red Heart (3:49)
25:41 Waltzing In Blue (3:05)
28:46 The Wild People (2:57)
31:43 Death Trip To Tulsa (4:33)
36:16 Dry Iced (6:04)
42:20 No Bells On Sunday (5:34)
47:54 Sad Lover (3:30)
51:24 Jonas Pap (2:27)
53:51 Smokestack Magic (7:55)
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
1. The River Rise 00:00
2. Borracho 4:30
3. House a Home 10:07
4. Kingdoms of Rain 13:17
5. Carnival 16:39
6. Riding the Nightingale 20:20
7. El Sol 26:38
8. Dead on You 30:20
9. Shooting Gallery 33:30
10. Sunrise 37:02
11. Pendulum 39:59
12. Judas Touch 42:11
13. Beggar's Blues 43:48
Scraps At Midnight
00:00 Hospital Roll Call (2:49)
02:49 Hotel (3:01)
05:50 Stay (3:19)
09:09 Bell Black Ocean (2:35)
11:44 Last One In The World (4:11)
15:55 Wheels (4:22)
20:17 Waiting On A Train (4:19)
24:36 Day & Night (3:07)
27:43 Praying Ground (2:58)
30:41 Because Of This (7:55)
I'll Take Care of You
1.Carry Home 00:00
2.I'll Take Care of You 2:59
3.Shiloh Town 5:50
4.Creeping Coastline of Lights 9:12
5.Badi-Da 12:33
6.Consider Me 15:55
7.On Jesus' Program 19:44
8.Little Sadie 22:30
9.Together Again 25:53
10.Shanty Man's Life 28:28
11.Boogie Boogie 31:40
2.I'll Take Care of You 2:59
3.Shiloh Town 5:50
4.Creeping Coastline of Lights 9:12
5.Badi-Da 12:33
6.Consider Me 15:55
7.On Jesus' Program 19:44
8.Little Sadie 22:30
9.Together Again 25:53
10.Shanty Man's Life 28:28
11.Boogie Boogie 31:40
Imitations
00:00 Flatlands (3:47)
03:47 She's Gone (2:03)
05:50 Deepest Shade (3:52)
09:42 You Only Live Twice (2:57)
12:39 Pretty Colors (2:35)
15:14 Brompton Oratory (4:03)
19:17 Solitaire (4:41)
23:58 Mack The Knife (2:59)
26:57 I'm Not The Loving Kind (2:59)
29:56 Lonely Street (2:42)
32:38 Elegie Funebre (3:23)
36:01 Autumn Leaves (3:22)
Field Songs
00:00 One Way Street (4:06)
04:06 No Easy Action (3:49)
07:55 Miracle (1:52)
09:47 Pill Hill Serenade (3:17)
13:04 Don't Forget Me (3:04)
16:08 Kimiko's Dream House (5:11)
21:19 Resurrection Song (3:23)
24:42 Field Song (2:13)
26:55 Low (3:04)
29:59 Blues For D (3:25)
33:24 She Done Too Much (1:24)
34:48 Fix (5:31)
The Winding Sheet
1.Mockingbirds 00:00
2.Museum 2:28
3.Undertow 5:20
4.Ugly Sunday 8:10
5.Down in the Dark 12:06
6.Wildflowers 15:27
7.Eyes of a Child 18:26
8.The Winding Sheet 22:28
9.Woe 27:58
10.Ten Feet Tall 30:02
11.Where Did You Sleep Last Night? 32:52
12.Juarez 36:50
13.I Love You Little Girl 38:12
1.Mockingbirds 00:00
2.Museum 2:28
3.Undertow 5:20
4.Ugly Sunday 8:10
5.Down in the Dark 12:06
6.Wildflowers 15:27
7.Eyes of a Child 18:26
8.The Winding Sheet 22:28
9.Woe 27:58
10.Ten Feet Tall 30:02
11.Where Did You Sleep Last Night? 32:52
12.Juarez 36:50
13.I Love You Little Girl 38:12
Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Sunday At Devil Dirt
00:00 Seafaring Song (3:22)
03:22 The Raven (4:45)
08:07 Salvation (3:09)
11:16 Who Built the Road (2:46)
14:02 Come on Over (Turn Me On) (4:28)
18:30 Back Burner (6:17)
24:47 The Flame That Burns (3:28)
28:15 Shotgun Blues (3:40)
31:55 Keep Me in Mind, Sweetheart (2:28)
34:23 Something to Believe (3:23)
37:46 Trouble (4:35)
42:21 Sally, Don't You Cry (2:36)