Mark Lanegan

[Strat]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eddie-vedder-mark-lanegan-seattle-concert-tribute-1311481/

Eddie Vedder Honors ‘One of a Kind Singer’ Mark Lanegan at Seattle Concert

Always heartbreaking to see Ed choke up.

Phew.

[kreng]

Heartworm Press:

"I talked to Mark last week as he was headed to Belgium to rehearse.. he asked to read the last poems of mine that make up our second book, Year Zero: A World With No Flowers. He was optimistic and excited about his future plans and dreams. He wanted to come to LA soon and we talked about doing shows together in the fall, and how we would try to fit in some readings at bookstores we liked during the day. Talking with Mark was such a joy. Such a joy. That voice… His warmth and wisdom. I’m permanently uncomfortable, particularly with the phone, but could talk with Mark for hours. Just driving around LA talking to him in Ireland. He was humble like no other, complimentary and giving with advice. He came out of his Covid coma last year and texted to ask how I was doing. That’s how he was. We shared a similar sense of humor and could crack up in situations without having to say anything. His last solo show was in Las Vegas, and he asked me to sing with him. We spent the day of the festival in his hotel room, talking for hours, until he recommended that we practice the song ‘Playing Nero’. He played it from his phone, I came in on time, and he stopped it and said, “Ok, you got it” and we went back to talking. Never in a million years would I have imagined that would be the last song of the last concert he performed. It is nice to see so many media outlets acknowledge Mark, but also frustrating that he was such a gift to the world, and that his output over the last few years was surely some of his best work, that I only wish these people and places would have championed him in the present for the rare treasure that he was. You were in the presence of greatness. Real ones knew and that’s why his list of collaborators spans genre and expectation. He once told me the highlight of his musical life was when John Cale gave him a small approving head nod while he sang “All Tomorrow’s Parties” with him. I could always imagine Mark older, in a black suit, cigarette burning in a gold ash tray atop a black piano, singing to the world who loved him, touching us where it mattered most, deep in the sinking soul, for he had that rare key to unlock the cryptic sorrow inside and soothe us with his voice. He was a lifer, unaffected, walked the walk and had the guts to back it up off the stage. He was a poet who started writing poems later in life. Penned hundreds of beautiful lyrics, but the poems bound us, and I’m proud and thankful to have supported them. Prior to his move to Ireland we started recording interviews with people we admired for a podcast we planned to do and got a few done. I’ll try to get those out to you soon. We sound like teens, chainsmoking and giggling. He got me. I got him. That’s why I loved him.

He leaves us with so much and will live on.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his loving wife and his family whom he loved dearly.

I love you.

-WE"

WE = Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave, and runs Heartworm Press

[Kevin Davis]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

[epilogue]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

[Jammer XCI]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

Listen to Rated R and Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age

[oasisfan35]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

I think you'd find the experience quite rewarding.

[Kevin Davis]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

Listen to Rated R and Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age

I've heard them! I actually saw them live with Lanegan twice supporting SFTD (it was kind of circumstantial -- they were opening for Zwan the first time, at Lollapalooza the second).

QOTSA have never really done it for me, though they were good live both times.

[stip]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

I think you'd find the experience quite rewarding.

there is a wealth of amazing material

whisky for the holy ghost and scraps at midnight are good places to go next if you want to look backwards. bubblegum if you want a sense of what is next

[Revelator]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

I think you'd find the experience quite rewarding.

My God man do yourself a favor and dive in head first. I started with Whiskey many years ago and just moved forward from there. Whiskey is still arguably my favorite, but he's one of the rare few who've never put out a 'bad' solo album. Not even close actually.

[Strat]

My favorite lanegan is when he started experimenting more with sound and instrumentation. I can't pinpoint exactly when that was because im not deeply knowledgable about his career but....

I know his first couple of solo records didn't floor me at first.

[arthurdent]

My favorite lanegan is when he started experimenting more with sound and instrumentation. I can't pinpoint exactly when that was because im not deeply knowledgable about his career but....

I know his first couple of solo records didn't floor me at first.

The Methamphetame Blues EP that came out before Bubblegum was released was when he snagged me

[ridleybradout]

My favorite lanegan is when he started experimenting more with sound and instrumentation. I can't pinpoint exactly when that was because im not deeply knowledgable about his career but....

I know his first couple of solo records didn't floor me at first.

Blues Funeral was when he really started embracing synths and other instrumentation.

'Ode To Sad Disco' is still one of my favourite songs of this century

[Strat]

My favorite lanegan is when he started experimenting more with sound and instrumentation. I can't pinpoint exactly when that was because im not deeply knowledgable about his career but....

I know his first couple of solo records didn't floor me at first.

Blues Funeral was when he really started embracing synths and other instrumentation.

'Ode To Sad Disco' is still one of my favourite songs of this century

Yea and that’s when I really fell in love with him.

Saw him on that tour and was completely mesmerized. Jim Morrison meets tom waits. He just stood there at the mic. Didn’t love. Didn’t say a word to us. I couldn’t take my eyes off him anyway.

[Bammer]

I got several texts about Lanegan today.

Never saw him play live

[swan]

If you’re not familiar, please look up “Live With Me” by Twilight Singers. For me one of Mark’s best.

[stip]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

I think you'd find the experience quite rewarding.

My God man do yourself a favor and dive in head first. I started with Whiskey many years ago and just moved forward from there. Whiskey is still arguably my favorite, but he's one of the rare few who've never put out a 'bad' solo album. Not even close actually.

whisky going forward is your best bet. there is an album before it (the winding sheet) which is worth a listen once you are committed - but there is an unbroken string of unambiguously great solo records from whisky through blues funeral, plus his two soulsaver records and his first collaboration with isobell campbell. after those you could go anywhere

[stip]

I've never really listened to Lanegan beyond the well-known Trees songs ("Nearly Lost You," "All I Know"), but I am listening to Field Songs now and loving it. This is a rabbit hole I could go down for sure.

I think you'd find the experience quite rewarding.

My God man do yourself a favor and dive in head first. I started with Whiskey many years ago and just moved forward from there. Whiskey is still arguably my favorite, but he's one of the rare few who've never put out a 'bad' solo album. Not even close actually.

whisky going forward is your best bet. there is an album before it (the winding sheet) which is worth a listen once you are committed - but there is an unbroken string of unambiguously great solo records from whisky through blues funeral, plus his two soulsaver records and his first collaboration with isobell campbell. after those you could go anywhere

[psychobain]

[VinylGuy]

If you’re not familiar, please look up “Live With Me” by Twilight Singers. For me one of Mark’s best.

great great song

[contamination]

If you’re not familiar, please look up “Live With Me” by Twilight Singers. For me one of Mark’s best.

great great song

This is the Massive Attack song? Edit: seems to be. Yeah it's not a bad version. I think Scraps At Midnight is the one album I've been listening the most during the past few years and Last one in the world is one of my favorite songs of his. This is excellent, from that same time period: