Kurz nach dem Release von "Black Pudding" im Mai diesen Jahres, einer Zusammenarbeit Lanegans mit Duke Garwood folgt nun im September das ausschließlich aus Cover-Songs bestehende Soloalbum "Imitations". Das neue Soloalbum von Mark Lanegan wird am 13.09.2013 über Heavenly / [PIAS] Cooperative erscheinen.
"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. At home my folks were also listening to country music - Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, George Jones and Vern Gosdin were some of our favourites. 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", so Mark Lanegan.