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MARK LANEGAN

Singing with a nicotine-ravaged growl that was deep, strong, and sensuously forbidding, Mark Lanegan rose to fame when his band the Screaming Trees won a taste of mainstream recognition in the '90s. Carving out a strong individual identity as a vocalist and songwriter, Lanegan's music was nearly always informed by the blues, and the singer was willing to take his darkly poetic sensibility to whatever style his muse pointed him. His solo work veered from the semi-acoustic atmospherics of 1990's The Winding Sheet, 1998's Scraps at Midnight, and the adventurous hard rock of 2004's Bubblegum and 2012's Blues Funeral, to the clean electronic surfaces of 2014's Phantom Radio and 2020's unsparingly confessional Straight Songs of Sorrow. Lanegan was also a frequent collaborator with a number of noted artists, among them Greg Dulli, Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, Soulsavers, and Duke Garwood.

"I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU"

1998     LP     BEGGARS BANQUET RECORDS     BBQLP 215      

MADE IN ENGLAND      ORIGINAL  PRESSING

SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE

NOTES: This album is all cover songs that Mark chose. Here is a track-by-track list of the original artists.

A1. The Gun Club (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)   A2. Brook Benton   A3. Tim Hardin (Timothy James Hardin)

A4. Leaving Trains (James Arthur Moreland/Manfred Hofer)   A5. Fred Neil

B1. Eddie Floyd/Booker T. Jones   B2. Overton Vertis Wright   B3. Traditional song

B4. Buck Owens   B5. Stephen Harrison Paulus   B6. Tim Rose

Recorded at Jupiter Studios; Additional Recording at Ironwood Studios.

On label B2 as "OH JESUS' PROGRAM".

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 6 07618 02151 1

LABEL: BEGGARS BANQUET -  ORANGE LABEL - WHITE/BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: BBQLP 215

Catalog on labels: BBQLP 215

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): BBQLP215 A' DAMONT JONZ LOUD°

   Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BBQLP215 B' JONZ LOUD° DAMONT 

On labels: Artist + Title + Tracklist + Cat. & Company

On inner sleeve: Credits

On Back Cover: BBQLP 215 Made in England

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Side A: CARRY HOME - I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU - SHILOH TOWN

CREEPING COASTLINE OF LIGHTS - BADI-DA

Side B: CONSIDER ME - ON JESUS' PROGRAM - LITTLE DASIE

TOGETHER AGAIN - SHANTY MAN'S LIFE

grading

RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

By now, anyone who has heard one of Mark Lanegan's solo albums knows exactly what the others will sound like -- Lanegan's weathered, smoky voice intones tales of quiet desperation over echoing electric guitar arpeggios, folky acoustic guitar work, and the occasional piano, organ, or violin embellishment. This approach has resulted in a compelling body of work, often possessed of remarkable depth, but it's also become something of a stylistic straitjacket over the course of several albums. And that's the only major knock against the otherwise brilliant I'll Take Care of You, Lanegan's fourth solo album, which marks the first time it hasn't taken him four years to deliver a follow-up. Perhaps that's because there's no original material here -- I'll Take Care of You applies the drifting, elegiac qualities of its predecessors to a selection of well-chosen, mostly underexposed folk, country, and blues covers. It's a testament to Lanegan's interpretive skill that he's able to use his already well-established style so effectively yet again, as most of these versions range from stunning to merely excellent. His sources are widely varied: acclaimed but undervalued folk artists like Tim Hardin and Fred Neil, soul-blues singer Bobby Bland (the Brook Benton-penned title track), cult indie bands the Gun Club and the Leaving Trains, country superstar Buck Owens, and traditional folk songs best known through Dave Van Ronk and Doc Watson. Yet the uniformity of Lanegan's sound works in his favor, tying his disparate sources together and making them seem like the product of a unified worldview. Even on the more upbeat, major-key tunes, Lanegan's treatments make the singer's happiness sound wistful and fleeting, as though he's achieved a quiet peace and is already mourning its inevitable end. Moreover, he never overplays the darker dirges, and the restrained arrangements help ensure that his melancholy never seems forced. As good as they are, there are parts of every Lanegan album that float off into the ether; however, the material on I'll Take Care of You helps keep him tethered, actually improving on his signature sound by tightening it up. So, even if you think you've heard it all from Lanegan before -- and even if he'll have to open up his sound or risk diluting the qualities that make him compelling -- I'll Take Care of You really is one of his most affecting, accessible recordings, if not the most...(AllMusic)