The Unforgettable Mark Lanegan
An appreciation of the greatest voice to come out of the grunge era
Of the great male voices to come out of the grunge era—, Layne Staley’s, Chris Cornell’s—the greatest was Mark Lanegan’s. It was simultaneously the fullest and the most evacuated by sorrow, the warmest and the closest to the grave, the strongest and the most self-immolating, the purest and the most polluted, the largest-hearted and the loneliest. It had abjection in it, but
