“When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.”

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.