Long before music, baseball was Mark Lanegan’s first love. Growing up in Ellensburg, Washington, Lanegan did what most 20th century American boys did: he played pickup games until it was too dark to see the ball.
For certain music fans, it’s difficult to reconcile the counterculture lineage of an artist like Lanegan with said artist’s passion for popular sports. Billy Joel throwing out the first pitch at Shea Stadium? Sure, whatever, who the hell cares? But Mark Lanegan, the dark prince of grunge, a high school hurler with professional aspirations?
Episode 39: Across the Great Divide(s) b/w Glory Days
Episode 38: Bring Us the Head of Craig Brubeck, Who Stole Our Rocco’s Super Bowl Sheet Pizzas
Episode 37: The 12 (NA) Beers of Christmas
Episode 36: Got a Blank Space Where My Head Like a Hole Should Be – A Portrait of Generation X as Middle-Aged Summer Concert Series Nostalgia Trippers
Episode 34: Boise (Slight Return) Revisited
Episode 33: The New Belle and Sebastian Album Makes Me Feel Old
Episode 32: COVID, a Conference and Our Old Friend the Common Cold
Episode 31: The Subjective Greatness of ’America’s Greatest Hits’
Episode 30: Kerouac In the Lamplight of the Living Room
Episode 29: Take This Waltz
Episode 28: Bright Lights, Dark Winters
Episode 27: Season of the Ditch
Episode 26: Running To Stand Still b/w Reconciling Bono
Episode 25: Kicking Around on a Piece of Ground in Your Hometown
Episode 24: Thanksgiving Sucks, and So Does the Planes, Trains and Automobiles Soundtrack
Episode 23: Gordon Lightfoot and the Golden Autumn World Just Outside My Grasp
Episode 22: Teenage Angst Has Paid Off Well
Episode 21: Inscription Friendships and Farewell Transmissions
Desperation Fanzine: "The Wall of Rejection"
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