Mark Lanegan has announced a covers record, Imitations, will be released on Sept. 17 via Vagrant Records.
Lanegan, who released a collaboration with Duke Garwood earlier this year on Ipecac Recordings, offers the following statement:
When I was a kid in the late sixties and early seventies, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not. At home my folks were also listening to country music, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, George Jones and Vern Gosdin were some of our favorites. For a long time I’ve wanted to make a record that gave me the same feeling those old records did, using some of the same tunes I loved as a kid and some that I’ve loved as I have gotten older. This record is it. Imitations.
Hit the jump to see a track listing and to hear his rendition of "I'm Not the Loving Kind."
IMITATIONS track listing:
1. Flatlands
2. She’s Gone
3. Deepest Shade
4. You Only Live Twice
5. Pretty Colors
6. Brompton Oratory
7. Solitaire
8. Mack The Knife
9. I’m Not The Loving Kind
10. Lonely Street
11. Elégie Funèbre
12. Autumn Leaves
The Mark Lanegan Band will be performing at several festivals throughout the UK and Europe this summer and U.S. tour dates are being planned for later in the year.
MARK LANEGAN BAND on tour:
07/12 – Spain @ BBK Festival
07/13 – France @ Musilac Festival
07/14 – Rome @ Rock In Roma
07/15 – Milan @ Villa Arconati Festival
07/16 – Montreaux @ Montreaux Jazz Festival
07/17 – Lugano @ Longlake Festival at Palco Ciani
07/19 – Belgium @ Dour Festival
07/20 – Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
07/21 – Ireland @ Longitude Festival
