Mark William Lanegan (November 25, 1964 – February 22, 2022) was an America… Read Full Bio ↴Mark William Lanegan (November 25, 1964 – February 22, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and poet. First becoming prominent as the lead singer for the early grunge band Screaming Trees, he was also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released 12 solo studio albums, as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood. He was known for his baritone voice, which was described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and has been compared to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and Nick Cave.
Lanegan began his musical career in 1984 with Screaming Trees, with whom he released seven studio albums and five EPs before their disbandment in 2000. During his time with the band, he also started a solo career and released his first solo studio album, The Winding Sheet, in 1990. He subsequently released a further 10 solo albums, which received critical recognition but only moderate commercial success. Following the end of Screaming Trees, he became a frequent collaborator of Queens of the Stone Age, and was a full-time member between 2001 and 2005 during the Songs for the Deaf and Lullabies to Paralyze eras.
Lanegan collaborated with various artists throughout his career. In the 1990s, he and Kurt Cobain recorded an album of Lead Belly covers that was ultimately never released. He also joined Layne Staley and Mike McCready in the band Mad Season, and formed the alternative rock group The Gutter Twins with Greg Dulli in 2003, as well as contributing to releases by Moby, Bomb the Bass, Soulsavers, Tinariwen, The Twilight Singers, Manic Street Preachers, and Unkle, among others.
Lanegan struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol throughout his life, but had been sober for over a decade at the time of his death. Encouraged by his friend Anthony Bourdain, he released the memoir Sing Backwards and Weep in 2020. He followed this up in 2021 with the memoir Devil in a Coma, which focused on his near-death experience with COVID-19. He and his wife Shelley Brien left the U.S. in 2020 and settled in the Irish town of Killarney, where he died two years later at the age of 57. No cause of death was revealed.
Studio albums
The Winding Sheet (1990)
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (1994)
Scraps at Midnight (1998)
I'll Take Care of You (1999)
Field Songs (2001)
Bubblegum (2004)
Blues Funeral (2012)
Imitations (2013)
Phantom Radio (2014)
Gargoyle (2017)
Somebody's Knocking (2019)
Straight Songs of Sorrow (2020)
Lanegan began his musical career in 1984 with Screaming Trees, with whom he released seven studio albums and five EPs before their disbandment in 2000. During his time with the band, he also started a solo career and released his first solo studio album, The Winding Sheet, in 1990. He subsequently released a further 10 solo albums, which received critical recognition but only moderate commercial success. Following the end of Screaming Trees, he became a frequent collaborator of Queens of the Stone Age, and was a full-time member between 2001 and 2005 during the Songs for the Deaf and Lullabies to Paralyze eras.
Lanegan collaborated with various artists throughout his career. In the 1990s, he and Kurt Cobain recorded an album of Lead Belly covers that was ultimately never released. He also joined Layne Staley and Mike McCready in the band Mad Season, and formed the alternative rock group The Gutter Twins with Greg Dulli in 2003, as well as contributing to releases by Moby, Bomb the Bass, Soulsavers, Tinariwen, The Twilight Singers, Manic Street Preachers, and Unkle, among others.
Lanegan struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol throughout his life, but had been sober for over a decade at the time of his death. Encouraged by his friend Anthony Bourdain, he released the memoir Sing Backwards and Weep in 2020. He followed this up in 2021 with the memoir Devil in a Coma, which focused on his near-death experience with COVID-19. He and his wife Shelley Brien left the U.S. in 2020 and settled in the Irish town of Killarney, where he died two years later at the age of 57. No cause of death was revealed.
Studio albums
The Winding Sheet (1990)
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (1994)
Scraps at Midnight (1998)
I'll Take Care of You (1999)
Field Songs (2001)
Bubblegum (2004)
Blues Funeral (2012)
Imitations (2013)
Phantom Radio (2014)
Gargoyle (2017)
Somebody's Knocking (2019)
Straight Songs of Sorrow (2020)
Stockholm City Blues
Mark Lanegan Lyrics
Starin' out the window of this hotel room
The waxing and waning, giant northern moon
Brother Aldo, are you good for a few more bucks?
I promise someday soon I'm gonna change my luck
The rain is makin' rivers of the Stockholm streets
Soakin' through my coat, through my boots, to my feet
No one can ever tell me when enough's enough
Descendin' every ladder to the final rung
I pay for this pain, I'm runnin' through my blood
You couldn't ever tell me when enough's enough
To trade a few more nickels for another nail
Don't let my will give out before my body fails
Taxi to the corner, it's another mile
It'll be another corner, somewhere else tomorrow
No one can tell me that enough's enough
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
The choppin' and churnin' of the northern tides
Rip at a wound as deep as the ocean is wide
And I thank my God because I prayed for it
I went to my knees when the medicine hit
And felt the slightest sting as though an insect bit
No one could ever tell me that it's time to quit
The faint and flickering light is my candle barely lit
Brother Aldo, are you good for a few more bucks?
No one could ever tell me that enough's enough
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
No one could ever tell me that enough's enough
You couldn't ever tell me that enough's enough
Stockholm city blues
The waxing and waning, giant northern moon
Brother Aldo, are you good for a few more bucks?
I promise someday soon I'm gonna change my luck
The rain is makin' rivers of the Stockholm streets
Soakin' through my coat, through my boots, to my feet
No one can ever tell me when enough's enough
Descendin' every ladder to the final rung
You couldn't ever tell me when enough's enough
To trade a few more nickels for another nail
Don't let my will give out before my body fails
Taxi to the corner, it's another mile
It'll be another corner, somewhere else tomorrow
No one can tell me that enough's enough
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
The choppin' and churnin' of the northern tides
Rip at a wound as deep as the ocean is wide
And I thank my God because I prayed for it
I went to my knees when the medicine hit
And felt the slightest sting as though an insect bit
No one could ever tell me that it's time to quit
The faint and flickering light is my candle barely lit
Brother Aldo, are you good for a few more bucks?
No one could ever tell me that enough's enough
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
I pay for this pain I put into my blood
No one could ever tell me that enough's enough
You couldn't ever tell me that enough's enough
Stockholm city blues
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