Ep. 74 - Mark Lanegan - Interview

Mark Lanegan's 35 year music career has been prolific and diverse, after starting with the Screaming Trees, he has worked with/in Mad Season, Queens of the Stone Age, Gutter Twins, Twilight Singers, Isobel Campbell, UNKLE and countless others. He recently released his engrossing and brutal memoirs, Sing Backwards and Weep and accompanying solo album Straight Songs of Sorrow, a brilliant collection of songs which features John Paul Jones, Dylan Carlson, Warren Ellis and many others. We spoke to ML in Ireland over the phone (and found out what he's been working on. We talk about various albums throughout his career, find out what he's been doing under lockdown and find out why Izzy Stadlin is the coolest guy in the world.