Tuesday, August 2nd 2011
News: Screaming Trees
Stream The Screaming Trees ‘Last Words: The Final Recordings’
A while before the Screaming Trees broke up in 2000, the band went into Stone Gossard’s Studio Litho to record the last batch of songs they ever wrote. After remaining untouched for over ten years, the tapes were recently found by drummer Barrett Martin and producer Jack Endino, who proceeded to carefully clean and transfer them to a digital format.
Now, those recordings are being released as a final album/rarities compilation of sorts, appropriately titled Last Words: The Final Recordings. It’s out today, and you can listen to it at screamingtrees.net/media (or here):
The album features Gary Lee Conner on guitar, his brother Van Conner on bass, Barrett Martin on drums, and, of course, Mark Lanegan on Vocals. REM’s Peter Buck makes special appearances on acoustic and 12-string guitar, as well as a pre-QOTSA Josh Homme, though it’s not specified on which tracks. This release doesn’t mean, however, that there’s a Screaming Trees reunion on the horizon, as the press release clarifies:
“There are no plans for a reunion, as the band members are finally well-adjusted adults who actually get along with each other and have happily moved on with their lives. Gary Lee started a family and the band Microdot Gnome while Van, also a family man, started the band Valis, as well as the label Strange Earth Records. Barrett started his own label, a jazz group, and became a college professor, and Mark has cultivated a highly successful solo career, being recognized as one of the greatest singers of his generation. No, instead of a reunion like so many other bands have done, the Screaming Trees just want to make this final album available to their friends and fans – their Last Words, so to speak.”
You can purchase the album on iTunes. CD and vinyl versions are to be released in the next few months.
is that carl weathers on the cover as the waiter?
What? Are you an asshole? it’s Billy Dee Williams’
i was about to correct both of you and say it’s lando calrissian, but then I looked up who actually played that guy. This does, however, bring up the question of why the leader of Cloud City is on the cover…
Post-Star Wars career is a BITCH.
(when you’re not Harrison Ford)
The Nicaraguan man on the cover is Rigoberto Lopez Perez: the poet assassin who dressed up as a waiter in order to gain access to a presidential banquet– where he shot dead the cruel dictator Anastasio Somoza…
these tracks sound great. i miss slightly more up tempo lanegan
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!! good morning to you too!!!!!!!
Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1994 so I can remotely give a fuck about this…
I see you had your bowl of douche this morning =p