“It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.”

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.