{"product_id":"sing-backwards-and-weep-a-memoir-9780306922800","title":"Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis gritty bestselling memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees  Queens of the Stone Age  and Soulsavers documents his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the 80s and 90s.  When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s  he was just \"an arrogant  self-loathing redneck waster seeking transformation through rock n roll.\" Little did he know that within less than a decade he would rise to fame as the frontman of the Screaming Trees and then fall from grace as a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin addict  all the while watching some of his closest friends rocket to the forefront of popular music.  In Sing Backwards and Weep  Lanegan takes readers back to the sinister  needle-ridden streets of Seattle  to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and dripping with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of the Screaming Trees  from a brawling  acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favorites that scored a hit number five single on Billboards alternative charts and landed a notorious performance on Late Night with David Letterman  where Lanegan appeared sporting a fresh black eye from a brawl the night before. This book also dives into Lanegans personal struggles with addiction  culminating in homelessness  petty crime  and the tragic deaths of his closest friends. From the back of the van to the front of the bar  from the hotel room to the emergency room  onstage  backstage  and everywhere in between  Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the abrasive underlining beneath one of the most romanticized decades in rock history-from a survivor who lived to tell the tale.  Gritty  gripping  and unflinchingly raw  Sing Backwards and Weep is a book about more thanjust an extraordinary singer who watched hisdreams catch fire and incinerate the groundbeneath his feet. Its about a man who learnedhow to drag himself from the wreckage  dust offthe ashes  and keep living and creating.  \"Mark Laneganprimitive  brutal  and apocalyptic. Whats not to love?\" Nick Cave  author of The Sick Bag Song and The Death of Bunny Munro\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652895727669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0306922800","price":33.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780306922800.jpg?v=1781853151","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sing-backwards-and-weep-a-memoir-9780306922800","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}