Singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan, who began his career in music in 1984, has announced that he will be issuing a vinyl collection in November containing his first five solo albums.
Lanegan will be releasing the collection via Sub Pop Records on November 20, 2015. It will contain his first five solo albums and the compilation’s title is One Way Street. The box holding the vinyl collection is embossed faux-leather and the records contained within are pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Three of the titles have been out of print for years, one was released in the vinyl format in Europe only and another was only ever released on CD. Each record is cut from new lacquers and cased in a sleeve featuring the art from its original release.
Four of the records included in the compilation are from the 1990s, while the fifth had its original issue in 2001. Lanegan’s first solo album, The Winding Sheet, debuted in spring 1990. His fourth solo album was entitled I’ll Take Care of You and was made up of cover songs that Lanegan recorded by artists who had inspired him throughout his career. In his early years, Lanegan worked with Dinosaur Jr.’s Mike Johnson, who helped write, arrange and produce some of the tracks and records appearing in this collection.
The most recent album by Lanegan, Houston (Publishing Demos 2002), was released in August 2015 and contained deferred tracks that had originally been recorded in 2002, after his project Screaming Trees split. Prior to this year’s album, he released Phantom Radio in 2014.
He hasn’t just been working on solo projects in the past few years, though. The Mark Lanegan Band was very active in 2014, releasing their five-track No Bells on Sunday EP in early August and debuting a new song called “Flood of the Ocean” less than a month later. The band followed that up in September with another new track entitled “Harvest Home,” which sounds like the perfect track to introduce autumn.
Lanegan’s One Way Street collection is currently available for pre-order via Sub Pop’s online store. The vinyl box set costs $90, while a digital version of the collection costs $50. See the five albums included in the collection below.
One Way Street Albums
The Winding Sheet
01. Mockingbirds
02. Museum
03. Undertow
04. Ugly Sunday
05. Down in the Dark
06. Wild Flowers
07. Eyes of a Child
08. The Winding Sheet
09. Woe
10. Ten Feet Tall
11. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
12. Juarez
13. I Love You Little Girl
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
01. The River Rise
02. Borracho
03. House a Home
04. Kingdoms of Rain
05. Carnival
06. Riding the Nightingale
07. El Sol
08. Dead on You
09. Shooting Gallery
10. Sunrise
11. Pendulum
12. Judas Touch
13. Beggar’s Blues
Scraps at Midnight
01. Hospital Roll Call
02. Hotel
03. Stay
04. Bell Black Ocean
05. Last One in the World
06. Praying Ground
07. Wheels
08. Waiting on a Train
09. Day and Night
10. Because of This
I’ll Take Care of You
01. Carry Home (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
02. I’ll Take Care of You (Brook Benton)
03. Shiloh Town (Tim Hardin)
04. Creeping Coastline of Lights (Leaving Trains)
05. Badi-Da (Fred Neil)
06. Consider Me (Eddie Floyd, Booker T. Jones)
07. On Jesus’ Program (Overton Vertis Wright)
08. Little Sadie (Traditional)
09. Together Again (Buck Owens)
10. Shanty Man’s Life (Stephen Harrison Paulus)
11. Boogie Boogie (Tim Rose)
Field Songs
01. One Way Street
02. No Easy Action (feat. Wendy Rae Fowler)
03. Miracle
04. Pill Hill Serenade
05. Don’t Forget Me
06. Kimiko’s Dream House
07. Resurrection Song
08. Field Song
09. Low
10. Blues for D
11. She Done Too Much
12. Fix (feat. Duff McKagan)