Mark Lanegan: Bubblegum
Fred Mills, No Depression, September 2004
IF YOU HAVE no tolerance for revolving-door "recovering" addicts who feel compelled to chronicle, on record after record, every opium-drenched near-death vision and every groveling plea for salvation, ex-Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan is not for you.
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