R.I.P. Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan has died. He was just 57. He was so often referred to as ‘a survivor’. A wild teen – alcohol and drugs – and then music was both his salvation and a further promulgation of the maddening haze. He ran with Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley, later he was a good chum of Anthony Bourdain. The odds of Lanegan being a survivor somehow seemed forever s…