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6725 - MARK LANEGAN - Has God Seen My Shadow?: An Anthology 1989-2011, Disc One (2014)

MARK LANEGAN
''HAS GOD SEEN MY SHADOW?: AN ANTHOLOGY 1989-2011, DISC ONE''
JANUARY 14 2014
104:57

DISC ONE
1 /Bombed
Mark Lanegan/1:10
2 /One Hundred Days
Mark Lanegan/4:37
3 /Come to Me
Mark Lanegan/3:45
4 /Mirrored
Mark Lanegan/2:52
5 /Pill Hill Serenade
Mike Johnson / Mark Lanegan/3:27
6 /One Way Street
Mark Lanegan/4:19
7 /Kimiko's Dream House
Mark Lanegan / Jeffrey Lee Pierce/5:26
8 /Low
Mark Lanegan/3:14
9 /Resurrection Song
Mark Lanegan/3:35
10 /Shiloh Town
Tim Hardin/3:20
11 /Creeping Coastline of Lights
Manfred Hofer / James "Falling James" Moreland/3:18
12 /Lexington Slow Down
Mark Lanegan / Keni Richards/2:59
13 /Last One in the World
Mike Johnson / Mark Lanegan/4:24
14 /Wheels
Mark Lanegan/4:35
15 /Mockingbirds
Mike Johnson / Mark Lanegan/2:29
16 /Wild Flowers
Mark Lanegan/2:58
17 /Sunrise
Mark Lanegan/2:57
18 /Carnival
Mark Lanegan/3:42
19 /Pendulum
Mark Lanegan/2:15
20 /The River Rise
Mark Lanegan/4:29

DISC TWO
1 /Dream Lullaby
Mark Lanegan/1:52
2 /Leaving New River Blues
Mark Lanegan/3:31
3 /Sympathy
Mark Lanegan/2:16
4 /To Valencia Courthouse
Mark Lanegan/3:09
5 /A Song While Waiting
Mark Lanegan/3:27
6 /Blues for D [Vocal Version]
Mark Lanegan / Ben Shepherd/3:34
7 /No Contestar
Mark Lanegan/1:14
8 /Big White Cloud
John Cale/3:23
9 /Following the Rain
Mark Lanegan/3:18
10 /Grey Goes Black
Mark Lanegan/1:50
11 /Halcyon Daze
Mark Lanegan/2:50
12 /Blues Run the Game
Jackson C. Frank/4:42

John Agnello /Vocals
Bukka Allen /Accordion, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer
Steve Bailey /Bass
Sally Barry /Vocals (Background)
Mark Boquist /Drums
David Catching /Bass, Guitar
Dejha Colantuono /Vocals (Background)
Van Conner /Bass
Paul Dana /Guitar
Alan Davis /Bass
Tad Doyle /Drums
Fred Drake /Percussion
Jack Endino /Bass
Kurt Fedora /Bass
Martin Feveyear /Bass, Bells, Keyboards, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals
Steve Fisk /Piano
Wendy Rae Fowler /Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Chris Goss /Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
PJ Harvey /Vocals
Joshua Homme /Bass, Drums, Guitar
Mark Hoyt /Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Vocals (Background)
Mike Johnson /Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Organ, Piano, Slide Guitar
David Krueger /Violin
Mark Lanegan /Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals
Marek /Piano
Barrett Martin /Bass (Upright), Drums, Vibraphone
J Mascis /Drums, Piano
Duff McKagan /Drums, Guitar
Molly McGuire /Bass
Ian Moore /Guitar, Sitar, Vocals (Background)
Mark Pickerel /Drums
Mickey Rafael /Bass Harmonica
Keni Richards /Drums, Piano
Bill Rieflin /Drums
Mathias Schneeberger /Guitar
Natasha Schneider /Vocals
Ben Shepherd /Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Vocals
Phil Sparks /Bass (Upright)
Mike Stinette /Saxophone
Aldo Struyf /Keyboards, Synthesizer
Ted Trewhella /Piano
Troy Van Leeuwen /Guitar

REVIEW
By Mark Deming
Of the bands that rose to fame during the late-'80s/early-'90s grunge sweepstakes, the Screaming Trees were always darker, heavier, and trippier than their peers, with a vague folkie undertow to go along with the electric guitars, and lead singer Mark Lanegan's solo career suggests that a lot of the band's musical personality came from him and not just the instrumentalists. From his first solo album, 1990's The Winding Sheet, Lanegan showed he had a distinctive sonic and lyrical outlook to go along with his deep, smoky voice, with one foot stuck in the blues and the other in some imagined landscape where love, luck, and alcohol are tricky commodities in short supply, and he's expanded greatly on that vision over the course of an increasingly ambitious solo career. Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011 is a compilation that presents a useful overview of Lanegan's solo work, pulling representative tracks from his first six albums -- from The Winding Sheet to 2004's Bubblegum -- along with a pair of rare single sides and a bonus disc that includes 12 previously unreleased performances. While the instrumental approach and the sophistication of these songs shift as the album goes along (especially on the first part, which largely moves backwards through Lanegan's chronology), the theme and tone remain remarkably consistent, as Lanegan ponders his soul and the earthly circumstances that contain him while languid melodies drift by, and his voice hits a richly emotional chord without sinking into melodrama. The outtakes, covers, alternate takes, and live tapes that fill the album's second half confirm the force and consistency of Lanegan's musical vision, sounding (with rare exceptions) just as emotionally resonant as the material that already made the grade. If the album has a flaw, it's that it ignores the many collaborative projects that feature Lanegan, including his albums with Isobel Campbell and his vocal contributions to albums by the Soulsavers, Queens of the Stone Age, and the Gutter Twins. But as a sampler of Lanegan's solo efforts, it's superb. If you're already a serious Mark Lanegan fan, Has God Seen My Shadow covers a lot of familiar ground, but the 12 unreleased tracks amount to an album's worth on unheard pleasures, and if you've never been introduced to Lanegan's music, this is beautiful, challenging stuff for those dark nights of the soul.

BIOGRAPHY
By Richie Unterberger

Mark Lanegan's solo albums are sufficiently dissimilar in tone from those of his regular group, Screaming Trees, to make listeners wonder where his true interests lie. His records often employ a much more acoustic tone, and address much more serious, personal concerns. Despite ample critical acclaim, Lanegan always kept the Screaming Trees his primary concern (that is, until their breakup). The original plan for Lanegan's first solo recording was to do an EP of blues songs with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Chris Novoselic, as well as Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel. That didn't work out, and The Winding Sheet ended up being recorded with Pickerel, guitarist Mike Johnson (later bassist in Dinosaur Jr.), and noted producer Jack Endino on bass. Released in 1990, the album included a cover of the Leadbelly folk number "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" from the aborted sessions with Cobain and Novoselic; it became the basis for Nirvana's version on MTV Unplugged. Despite a good reception from the underground, it took until 1994 for Lanegan's brilliantly assured follow-up, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, to surface, which again featured Johnson in a prominent role. Afterwards, Lanegan once again returned to Screaming Trees for what proved to be the band's final album, 1996's Dust. With the Trees on hiatus, Lanegan resumed his solo career with 1998's Scraps at Midnight, which followed in the vein of its predecessors. The follow-up appeared much more quickly this time; 1999's I'll Take Care of You was a quietly stunning covers album drawing on Lanegan's interest in roots music. Two years later, Field Songs arrived.

In November of 2003, after a short stint as vocalist with Queens of the Stone Age (he sang on the album Songs for the Deaf and appeared as part of the subsequent tour), the newly formed Mark Lanegan Band released Here Comes That Weird Chill: Methamphetamine Blues, Extras, and Oddities, an EP that anticipated the Lanegan Band's first full-length album, Bubblegum. Featuring guest appearances from Polly Jane Harvey, the Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri of QOTSA, and former Guns N' Roses members Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan, Bubblegum was released in August of 2004. In 2008, Lanegan, who had at this point been collaborating on and off with QOTSA and recorded albums with Belle & Sebastian's Isobel Campbell (2006's Ballad of the Broken Seas, 2008's Sunday at Devil Dirt) and the Soulsavers (2007's It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land), released Saturnalia as part of the duo the Gutter Twins (whose other member was none other than Greg Dulli, with whom he'd been touring as part of Dulli's outfit the Twilight Singers for the past couple of years). 2012's Blues Funeral found Lanegan drawing inspiration from the past six years, and included appearances by Dulli and Josh Homme. Recorded in Hollywood by Eleven's Alain Johannes, the album was released on February 7, 2012. His next project was a collaborative album with iconoclastic multi-instrumentalist and composer Duke Garwood. Entitled Black Pudding, it was issued by Ipecac in May of 2013. Lanegan returned later that year to release a collection of cover versions. Entitled Imitations, it touchingly featured songs that he remembered from his childhood, it included versions of songs by artists such as Neil Diamond, Hall & Oates, Neil Sedaka as well as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the Twilight Singers.