NEW VINYL LP ON HEAVENLY RECORDS 2020

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

When considering any great work of art, be it a painting, a novel, or a piece of music, its natural to wonder what might have inspired it: the story behind the song. Mark Lanegans new album, Straight Songs Of Sorrow, flips that equation. Here are 15 songs inspired by a story: his life story, as documented by his own hand in his new memoir, ‘Sing Backwards And Weep’. The book is a brutal, nerve-shredding read, thanks to Lanegans unsparing candour in recounting a journey from troubled youth in eastern Washington, through his drug-stained existence amid the 90s Seattle rock scene, to an unlikely salvation at the dawn of the 21st century. Theres death and tragedy, yet also humour and hope, thanks to the tenacity which impels its host, even at his lowest moments. As Lanegan writes near the end: I was the ghost that wouldnt die.

Tracklist

1. I Wouldn’t Want To Say
2. Apples From A Tree
3. This Game of Love
4. Ketamine
5. Bleed All Over
6. Churchbells, Ghosts
7. Internal Hourglass Discussion
8. Stockholm City Blues
9. Skeleton Key
10. Daylight In The Nocturnal House
11. Ballad of A Dying Rover
12. Hanging On (For DRC)
13. Burying Ground
14. At Zero Below
15 .Eden Lost And Found