Mark Lanegan Scraps At Midnight CD

The third solo album from Screaming Trees singer Lanegan can be seen as the final component of a thematic trilogy. Lanegan's quiet, reflective solo work has always been at odds with the music of the Trees (and dare we say, more interesting). SCRAPS AT MIDNIGHT is no exception; continuing the thread begun on 1990's THE WINDING SHEET, Lanegan offers up another batch of ominous, acoustic-based, soul-searching tunes. While SCRAPS is anything but retro, it has a timeless quality, bearing faint echoes of equally disconsolate troubadours like Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison, Tim Hardin and Fred Neil. Moody, stirring, often unsettling, SCRAPS is a logical artistic progression from Lanegan's previous work.

Personnel: Terry Yohn (harmonica); J Mascis (piano); Phil Sparks (upright bass); Tad Doyle (drums).

Audio Mixer: John Agnello.

Recording information: Rancho de La Luna.

Photographer: Charles Peterson .

Personnel: Mark Lanegan, Liz Burns (vocals); Mike Stinette (saxophone); Terry Yohn (harmonica); J Mascis (piano); Phil Sparks (acoustic bass); Tad Doyle (drums); Mike Johnson, Paul Solger Dana, Keni Richards, Dave Catching, Fred Drake.

Engineers: John Burton, John Agnello, Terry Date, Jack Endino.

3rd Solo

Rolling Stone (8/6/98, pp.71-72) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...Lanegan faces his trail of terrors without apologies or self-pity, but with a kind of bruised dignity....Lanegan looks for redemption wherever he can find it--in the hazy memory of lost lovers, in prayers and in hallucinatory death visions..."