His last known album is Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe. Live shows on CD and LP and "Dark Mark Does Christmas" 2 different albums, 8 years apart.
He also has a bunch of off-label albums he sold at shows. I am having on ongoing Mark Lanegan listening party every day, from now on, until I am intimate with every album. I hope to see him at the Great Gig in the Sky. I like to think that is somehow a good omen. I was listening to the Screaming Trees first LP, Clairvoyance, for the first time (streaming) as I fell asleep the night before the world found out that he had died. 2 of them are still in the mail: Phantom Radio, and Gutter Twins. Odd coincidence of timing that I had picked up a dozen of his albums and side projects in the 2 months leading up to his death. I discovered his genius too late, but somehow I got into a feeding frenzy and picked up every single release I could get my hands on. I was 100 pages into his first book when he died. Just got his lyric and writings book, I Am The Wolf. Lanegan hated being compared to Jim Morrison, he said and related in his book, Sing Backwards and Weep (2020). He was still largely unknown in the mainstream until his death. Lee Conner wrote a huge number of the songs, but somehow Lanegan blossomed into an ever-changing, shape-shifting master of his underground musical world. Screaming Trees were a "Psycedelic Rock" band that played punk style in a different way, but Mark's vocals made it. And you can listen to all of his recorded tracks at It may have been created in the spirit of NYA. He would sing for almost any band or Artist that asked him to. Prices and shortages of all his albums are surging, from $40 to $100. And got the 3 albums with Isobell Campbell, Soulsavers, all of his solo albums, all of the Screaming Trees albums except their first LP, Clairvoyance (which followed their 1st EP), which is out of print and expensive, more so every day now. The 3 extra tracks on that which Mark sang on to complete them after Layne Staley died. Solo, Gutter Twins, 2 with Duke Garwood, all the Queens of the Stone Age albums with Lanegan on them (except the last one, in which he sings one song backup). I have been a fan for long enough to have everything you can get on label.
You guys know about him, I am happy to see. I was planning on hitting up his next show in Seattle, but it was not to be. Mourning, in the morning and more in the evening. He was a junkie and wrote an incredible book about his life, staying clean for 10 years before his death. Through My Sails can be heard at this link: He had a massive amount of songs recorded as not only a solo artist but also as part time singer for Queens of the Stone Age & many other collaborations and vocals he lended to a huge # of bands. He was the singer for the proto-Grunge psychedelic punk band, Screaming Trees, and had a long and celebrated career as a singer. I have been morning the loss of a lesser known musician, Mark Lanegan. The following tribute to Mark Lanegan is brought to us by Brother Alan in Seattle. Mark Lanegan: 1964 - 2022 Photo by Jordi Vidal (Click photo to enlarge)
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