Mark Lanegan

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" Nick Cave "A stoned cold classic." Ian Rankin "Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty." Bobby Gillespie "Powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest." Lucinda Williams A ROUGH TRADE AND MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR From the back...

One morning in March 2021, with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and initially given little hope of survival, Lanegan's illness had him slipping in and out of a coma, unable to...

With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan draws frequent comparisons to wounded masters of doom like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen. But Lanegan's talents aren't limited to his vocal skills. His lyrics...