Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Mark Lannigan, the frontman of Screaming Tree,

is a great solo artist, has died at age 57.

We're going to devote this episode to an amazing and

sometimes harrowing interview that our own Cori Groh did with Mark back in

2020. Screaming trees started way back in 1986, so they proceeded a lot of their grudge peers.

They're both an influence on and part of the grun scene, but they're always sort of an uneasy

fit.

Their sound was always a little bit more 60s and psychedelia influenced.

But Kurt Cobain was a huge fan of Lannigan. Lannigan's solo career began in 1990 while

screaming trees were still going and that year before Nirvana unplugged

it was Lannigan who first recorded a cover of Lead Bellies Where Did You Sleep Last Night with

Help From Kurt. That was on Llanagan's sole debut the

winding sheet which Dave Grohl recently called a masterpiece.

My girl, my girl don't like me.

Tell me where did you sleep? In his 2020 memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep,

Lannigan wrote, I loved Kurt and I envied him because Nervana were fully developed in the first moment I heard them.

The trees on the other hand were always fighting, fighting each other, fighting forting fans and promoters and bouncers,

fighting to find a direction.

In the 2000s, Lannigan recorded and toured with Queens of the Stone Age, made some powerful music with Isabel Campbell of Bell and Sebastian,

and continued his solo career.

And as he discusses in his memoir, he had some terrible struggles with drug addiction even became homeless for a while

...