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it's not an attempt to try to outdo our first record

' Every album has been remastered by Don Bartley with one simple instruction from Don: "Please cut as loud as possible

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Straight Songs Of Sorrow (Vinyl) LimitedStock it's not an attempt toWhen considering any great work of art, it's natural to wonder what might have inspired it: 'the story behind the song'. Mark Lanegan's new album, 'Straight Songs Of Sorrow', flips that equation. Here are 15 songs inspired by a story: his life story, as documented by his own hand in his new memoir, 'Sing Backwards And Weep'. The book is a brutal, nerve shredding read, thanks to Lanegan's unsparing candour in recounting a journey from troubled youth in