The most honest and unsparing grunge memoir ever committed to the page by one of the greatest alternative rock stars of the past thirty years
The darkest corners of the grunge milieu are illuminated in a powerful memoir from Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and other projects, candid about the ups and addictive or violent downs of the band's rise from mid-eighties Seattle to the whirlwind fame of their associates, and onwards through experiences looked back on as feats of survival.
Sing Backwards and Weep is
the only rock autobiography you need investigate. Like
some nicotine-stained amalgam of Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain, Mark Lanegan gives another meaning to "warts and all" as he recounts his near obliteration during the Seattle grunge boom of the 1990s, of which he is one of the few survivors. A
brazen and bleakly comic saga about the needle and the damage done.
