Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet
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Artist: Mark LaneganEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-05-22
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- Mockingbirds
- Museum
- Undertow
- Ugly Sunday
- Down In The Dark
- Wild Flowers
- Eyes Of A Child
- The Winding Sheet
- Woe
- Ten Feet Tall
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night
- Juarez
- I Love You Little Girl
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After enjoying Lanegan's sophomore effort "Whiskey For The Holy Ghost", I decided to go back to the beginning with his menacing debut 'The Winding Sheet'. After a few listens to this album I thought it was decent, and a solid singer/songwriter effort. However, with repeated listens over the years, this album has become right up there with my favourites, and probably my favourite late-night melancholy outing.
What Lanegan did for this solo debut was take his whiskey soaked, emotionally charged voice, write some earnest lyrics about love, longing and mental frailty, and lace it all with simplistic and mellow acoustic guitars. A tried and tested formula, and it works. His later albums would add more instrumentation and more complex structures, but to me, this is his best album.
For one thing the album is extremely consistent, something necessary with its stripped down style to keep the attention of the listener. The opener "Mockingbird" is probably the most layered song on the album, with drums, acoustic and electric guitars, and piano thrown into the mix. It's a great opener, and sets up the moody style of the album, with Lanegan's husky croons of "your voice is a mockingbird, telling me where I'm going wrong". The album just continues with this style, albeit slightly stripped down. My personal highlights from the rest of it include the extremely calming "Eyes of a Child" in which Lanegan really shines, almost whispering the beautiful chorus lines of "see through the eyes of a child...". The title track creates mental toil through Lanegan's desperate voice, a really powerful song, it flows through its entirety with distant echoing guitars and Lanegan's haunting lyrics, peaked by the shimmering line "I am sick in my soul". "Wild Flowers" is another favourite of mine, essentially a very simple track evolving around the most basic of chord progressions and, to be honest, a rather simple vocal melody. But it is just a great listen, mostly due to Lanegan's calming vocals.
And that is the general theme for this album, simple yet effective...man and guitar.
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The singer for the Screaming Trees, Lanegan here choses to substitute his band's psychedelic yawp for the moody introspection of modern blues. His smooth croon transforms into an angry growl when the music turns stormy. "Mockingbirds" features a treacherously descending piano melody; "Wild Flowers" allows for an out-of-tune guitar to explain its world-weariness. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is noted for being the first time a Seattle grunge-rocker tackled the old Leadbelly classic. (The second Seattle guy to tackle it, Kurt Cobain, can be heard on electric guitar and on backing vocals for "Down in the Dark.") --Rob O'ConnorAlternative Rock Music CDs
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