Duke Garwood Joining Mark Lanegan on tour

Singer/multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood will be celebrating the release of his latest solo outing,Heavy Love, touring as opener for his friend and erstwhile collaborator (their Black Pudding album was a joint project and Duke contributed guitar to Lanegan’s Blues Funeral album); Garwood will be performing with a drummer and a second guitar player on this tour and siting in on Lanegan’s set. Duke promises: “Mood and scene permitting, I will be joining Mark for ‘I Am The Wolf .’ We hope to do it every night.” “I Am The Wolf” is the song Garwood wrote for Lanegan’s latest album Phantom Radio.

Mark with Duke  performing “Mescalito” @ L’Alhambra Paris (15-11-2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOaxHKYblc

The circumstances under which these recordings were made seem as unlikely and exotic as the music they produced. After opening for Mark Lanegan’s Soulsavers as a member of Steve Gullick’s band Tenebrous, Duke and Mark became friends, tour mates and finally collaborators on the Black Pudding album; Duke provided the hushed, dusky musical settings. The work on Black Pudding went so well they finished a day ahead of schedule and on that leftover day, Garwood entered Pink Duck alone, and began work on the tracks that would become Heavy Love, capturing this musician at his peak.

“When I was young and pretty, I could’ve become a star,” reflects Garwood. “Luckily, I didn’t have any inkling to. I didn’t know what I was doing; I wanted to play music the way I wanted it to be played. That probably saved my life”.  Instead he would embark upon the kind of character-building, detour-strewn route known only by the greatest artists and vagabonds. Along the way he formed deep connections with great musicians – from similarly quixotic souls like Lanegan, The Orb (adding guitar to “Perpetual Dawn”), and Josh T. Pearson – to distant legends Tinariwen and The Master Musicians Of Jajouka. Savages singer Jehnny Beth has also been a long-term admirer: “I met Duke at The Luminaire. He was playing sweet ballads with a tint of free-jazz; his voice was thin and full, like a Chet Baker turned into a midnight wolf. The first question was ‘who is this guy’?”  It’s her delicate vocals that appear on Heavy Love’s haunting title-track, which you can hear on the new video made by Garwood and famed rock photographer Steve Gullick; you can view here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcCGjIX6Zo&feature=youtu.be

DUKE GARWOOD Dates, Opening for Mark Lanegan