“I was in Screaming Trees - I wasn't really interested in playing quiet music in a live setting. But I would get asked quite often to do a show or open for somebody, and I always said no. Finally, I was asked if I would open for Johnny Cash, and Johnny Cash was one of my dad's favorite heroes. So that's why I started doing solo shows.”

American singer and songwriter

Mark Lanegan was an American singer and songwriter. He first came to prominence as the lead singer of the early grunge band Screaming Trees, and later worked with Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released twelve solo studio albums, along with three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood. He was known for his baritone voice, often described as rough yet flexible, and his singing was frequently compared with Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and Nick Cave.