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 Ga