Mark Lanegan - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost // FIRST SESSIONS (1991)

Found this on soulseek a few days ago, tagged as demos. It's a super interesting tracklist so i figured i would share this on youtube. To tell the truth, I prefer it in many aspects to the final version of the album. These alternatives renditions were apparently recorded at a Seattle unknown studio somewhere in 1991 but the wiki page state that the album was recorded in 1993 so I don't know apart from the fact that it was harsh times for Mark L. as stated in his book (I wholeheartedly recommend it to you). The audio quality is super clean though. The original tape that circulated in a restricted circle during the early 90s was originally and simply named "Mark in the studio - 1991".

EDIT : It's NOT demos (I changed the title since) contrary to what I wrote in uploading this video. Mike Johnson, who worked on these sessions, recently gave more details in an interview about the album (among other things) as you can read below.

"We started to make a fully acoustic album with him. It was just going to be Astral Weeks-inspired, and it was really going great. There's a video somebody has put out on YouTube (hi!), that says it's the demos for the album, and that's not what that is. It's the first sessions we did with Terry Date. We spent a week or so, and Mark had quite a few songs. It was just me playing guitar and this guy Phil Sparks, this jazz bass player, playing bass — and some rhythm, I think maybe Tad Doyle did it. It was going great. And then Sub Pop ran out of money, and it bounced a check to pay for the studio. They pulled us out of the studio, and it was really deflating. We had high hopes and things were really going well, it sounded incredible. Everything changed after that, because then the Trees had to go on tour for Uncle Anesthesia, and they totaled their van, and that was, like, a death-defying incident that caused Mark to start drinking again, which led to him start doing drugs later.[...]"
The full interview is here : https://www.leonardotissot.com/2023/02/interview-mike-johnson.html

Tracklist :
1) Sunrise
2) Following the Rain
3) Judas Touch
4) Shooting Gallery (Instrumental)
5) Carnival
6) Wheels
7) Day & Night
8) Beggars Blues
9) Riding the Nightingale
10) Judas Touch II

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