Mark Lanegan
Mark William Lanegan ( born November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington) is a singer and songwriter. From 1983 to 2000 he was the frontman of Screaming Trees.
Life
Even during his time with the Screaming Trees took Mark Lanegan in 1990 his first solo album " The Winding Sheet ", whereby he had high-profile support with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana.
Mark Lanegan was also a guest singer with the founded from a jam session in Seattle Crocodile Cafe on October 16, 1994 Project Mad Season, which is a project of musician Mike McCready (guitar, Pearl Jam ), Layne Staley (vocals, Alice in Chains ), Barrett Martin (drums, Screaming Trees ) and John " Baker " Saunders (bass, The Walkabouts ) was. They took only one album, called Above, on. Mark Lanegan at this time was one of the best friends of Layne Staley.
In 1994 another solo album, " Whiskey for the Holy Ghost ." Also in this work Lanegan had support. Involved in this album were members of Dinosaur Jr., Mudhoney, Tad and Mark Pickerel. In 1998, he released the album " Scraps at Midnight " followed by the ballad album "I'll Take Care of You " (1999), on the Van Conner of the Screaming Trees and Pickerel guest appearances. After the Screaming Trees broke up in 2000, located Lanegan joined the 2001 Queens of the Stone Age on.
Even during the time when he worked with the QOTSA album " Field Songs" ( 2001) and the EP "Here Comes did Weird Chill " (2003) continued his solo career, in which he said his subsequent works, including the EP, under artist name "Mark Lanegan Band " published in order to pay tribute to the various participating in his albums guest musicians toll.
On August 2, was released in 2004, a new album of Lanegan called " Bubblegum ", hailed by many as his best work. In March of the following year came out the fourth album by Queens of the Stone Age, on the Lanegan can be heard as a guest singer.
Lanegan, whose reputation has risen significantly since " Bubblegum ", adopted in early 2006 in collaboration with singer Isobel Campbell, formerly of Belle & Sebastian, the album " Ballad of the Broken Seas " on.
The music magazine " Intro" Mark Lanegan describes as follows: " His songs are of depressive beauty, his singing is a whisper. When he talks, it sounds as if he was praying. "
In 2003 he started with Greg Dulli ( Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers) a new project called The Gutter Twins, Saturnalia whose album was released in March 2008. Mark Lanegan was already involved as a guest musician on the Twilight Singers albums Blackberry Belle and She Loves You, and EP A Stitch in Time.
Early 2012 has Lanegan again presented a solo album, Blues Funeral, produced by Alain Johannes, who has also recorded a number of instruments on it. "Blues Funeral " he called it because he " invested a little gloomy " is. Instead otherwise the guitar, he used an old drum machine and keyboards to compose. The live lineup of Blues Funeral tour consists of the four Belgian musicians Aldo Struyf, Steven Janssens, Frederic Lyenn Jacques and Jean- Philippe de Gheest.
In 2013, Lanegan released two new albums. In spring the plant Black Pudding, which he brought out along with Duke Garwood appeared, and in the autumn the album Imitations, which - like the 2001 released I'll take care of you - only consists of cover songs and with what he in the fall extensively in 2013 went on tour.