Mark Lanegan Vinyl Records
Singing with a deep, nicotine-ravaged growl that's rich, strong, and sensuously forbidding, Mark Lanegan rose to fame when his band the Screaming Trees won a taste of mainstream recognition in the '90s. Though his first success was tied to the grunge scene, Lanegan subsequently carved out a strong identity of his own as a vocalist and songwriter. Lanegan's music is nearly always informed by the blues, but the singer is willing to take his darkly poetic sensibility wherever his muse points him.