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Mark Lanegan

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Mark Lanegan is a singer who has been in a lot of different bands. The first band to mention here are the screaming trees, which played a slightly grunge-influenced kind of rock.

In 1990, his first solo album, the winding sheet, is released on the legendary label Sub Pop, which also hosted Nirvana, the Melvins and many others. Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain even joins Lanegan on this album on two tracks, as backing vocal and as guitar player respectively. Nirvana's bass player Chris Novoselic joins in on bass on one track: "where did you sleep last night?", a Leadbelly cover, which would later appear on Nirvana's live-album in this version.

Lanegan also appears on a great lot of songs and albums by other artists in very different genres, mostly because he has a very characteristic voice. He has been a Queens of the Stone Age member for one album and a tour, for example. Other references are Masters of Reality, Melissa Auf der Maur, Martina Topley-Bird, Mondo Generator and Twilight singers.

On his latest album, Bubblegum, Lanegan is joined by an army of artists from different bands, including: Pj Harvey (Solo artist), Aldo Struyf (Millionaire), Dimitri Coats and Melanie Campbell (Burning Brides), Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri and Troy van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age), Chris Goss (Masters of Reality), Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers) and Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin (Guns And Roses). This list is far from exhaustive.

A little discography: SCREAMING TREES: -Sweet Oblivion (1992) -Dust (1996) MARK LANEGAN SOLO: -The winding Sheet (1990) -Scraps at midnight (1998) -Field Songs (2001) MARK LANEGAN BAND: -Bubblegum (2004) OTHER BANDS AND GUEST APPEARANCES: -Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age, 2000) -Songs for the Deaf (Queens of the Stone Age, 2002) -Quixotic (Martina Topley-Bird, 2003) -Deep in the Hole (Masters of Reality, 2001) -Auf der Maur (Melissa Auf der Maur, 2004) -A Drug Problem that Never Existed (Mondo Generator, 2003) -Desert Sessions 7&8 (Various Artists, 2001) -Blackberry Belle (Twilight Singers, 2004)

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