Mark Lanegan has been keeping himself busy over the last few years.  He's released albums with Isobel Campbell, The Gutter Twins, Soulsavers, Queens Of The Stone Age, and even his old group Screaming Trees.  With all of that going on, his own work got shunted to the side.

Well, no longer.  Lanegan has returned with Blues Funeral, the new album from Mark Lanegan Band.

This is a bit of a tweener album for Lanegan.  The songs don't form a cohesive whole.  In fact, it sounds as though this is a collection of misfit tracks that didn't fit on any of those other projects he has been working on.  That's not to say they aren't good though.
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