Mark Lanegan

Singing with a nicotine-ravaged growl that was deep, strong, and sensuously forbidding, Mark Lanegan rose to fame when his band the Screaming Trees won a taste of mainstream recognition in the '90s. Carving out a strong individual identity as a vocalist and songwriter, Lanegan's music was nearly always informed by the blues, and the singer was willing to take his darkly poetic sensibility to whatever style his muse pointed him. His solo work veered from the semi-acoustic atmospherics of 1990's The Winding Sheet, 1998's Scraps at Midnight, and the adventurous hard rock of 2004'...