“Carnival” by Mark Lanegan

"Carnival" comes from Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, the 1993 second solo album from Screaming Trees singer Mark Lanegan, and he wrote it alone, words and music. He produced and arranged it with Mike Johnson, Terry Date recorded it, and Jack Endino added more recording.

The album around it was a long, bruising haul. Sessions started in 1991 and stalled when a Sub Pop check to the studio bounced; Lanegan squeezed the work into the gaps between Screaming Trees' own recording and touring, and what he meant to be a quick job dragged across four years. At one point Endino had to physically stop him from hurling the master tapes into a river. The record kept digging into the roots music of his debut, The Winding Sheet.

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