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SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP
This is a gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulsavers), chronicling his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90s.
When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, he was just "an arrogant, self-loathing redneck waster seeking transformation through rock 'n' roll." Little did he know that within less than a decade, he would rise to fame as the front man of the Screaming Trees, then fall from grace as a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin addict, all the while watching some of his closest friends rocket to the forefront of popular music and dive headfirst into their graves.
In Sing Backwards and Weep, Lanegan takes readers back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and dripping with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of the Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favorites that scored a hit #5 single on Billboard's Alternative charts and landed a notorious performance on David Letterman, where Lanegan appeared sporting a fresh black eye from a brawl the night before. This book also dives into Lanegan's personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his friends in Nirvana and Hole, among others. From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, onstage, backstage, and everywhere in between, Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the abrasive underlining beneath one of the most romanticized decades in rock history--from a survivor who lived to tell the tale.
Gritty, gripping, and unflinchingly raw, Sing Backwards and Weep is a book about more than just an extraordinary singer who watched his dreams catch fire and incinerate the ground beneath his feet. Instead, it's about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage, dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating.
Mark Lanegan is a critically-acclaimed musician, singer-songwriter, and author. His music career began in 1984 when he formed the spectacularly dysfunctional rock band Screaming Trees. He collaborated with close friend Kurt Cobain before Nirvana's breakout success and sang in the band Mad Season with Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) and Mike McCready (Pearl Jam). With the dissolution of Screaming Trees in 2000, Lanegan joined Queens of the Stone Age and appeared on five of the band's albums. He has also released ten solo albums to wide acclaim. He lives in Los Angeles.
In Sing Backwards and Weep, Lanegan takes readers back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and dripping with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of the Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favorites that scored a hit #5 single on Billboard's Alternative charts and landed a notorious performance on David Letterman, where Lanegan appeared sporting a fresh black eye from a brawl the night before. This book also dives into Lanegan's personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his friends in Nirvana and Hole, among others. From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, onstage, backstage, and everywhere in between, Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the abrasive underlining beneath one of the most romanticized decades in rock history--from a survivor who lived to tell the tale.
Gritty, gripping, and unflinchingly raw, Sing Backwards and Weep is a book about more than just an extraordinary singer who watched his dreams catch fire and incinerate the ground beneath his feet. Instead, it's about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage, dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating.
Mark Lanegan is a critically-acclaimed musician, singer-songwriter, and author. His music career began in 1984 when he formed the spectacularly dysfunctional rock band Screaming Trees. He collaborated with close friend Kurt Cobain before Nirvana's breakout success and sang in the band Mad Season with Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) and Mike McCready (Pearl Jam). With the dissolution of Screaming Trees in 2000, Lanegan joined Queens of the Stone Age and appeared on five of the band's albums. He has also released ten solo albums to wide acclaim. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Published 2020-04-01 by Da Capo Press |