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Jun 26, 2013 Mark Lanegan By Mike Hilleary

Inking a deal with Vagrant, singer/songwriter Mark Lanegan has announced that he will release a new record, a covers album titled Imitations, on Sept. 17.

“When I was a kid in the late sixties and early seventies, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not,” says Lanegan of the album’s inspiration. “At home my folks were also listening to country music, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, George Jones and Vern Gosdin were some of our favorites. For a long time I’ve wanted to make a record that gave me the same feeling those old records did, using some of the same tunes I loved as a kid and some that I’ve loved as I have gotten older. This record is it. Imitations.”

In addition to sharing the album’s artwork (pictured) and tracklist (below), Lanegan has shared the piece piece of music from the effort with the John Cale ballad track “I’m Not the Loving Kind.” Click the stream to listen.

Imitations:
Flatlands (Chelsea Wolfe)
She’s Gone (Hall & Oates)
Deepest Shade
You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
Pretty Colors (Frank Sinatra)
Brompton Oratory (Nick Cave)
Solitaire
Mack The Knife (Bobby Darin)
I’m Not The Loving Kind (John Cale)
Lonely Street (Patsy Cline)
Elégie Funèbre (Gérard Manset)
Autumn Leaves

(www.marklanegan.com)