Among this year's Record Store Day Black Friday exclusive releases is Screaming Trees Wrong Turn at Jahannam: Live at Egg Studio 1991. The album captures the band during a happy accident. Gearing up for their tour of their just-released major label debut, Uncle Anesthesia, frontman Mark Lanegan and guitarist Gary Lee Conner had just welcomed back bassist and Gary's brother Van Conner, who had left the Trees in 1988 and had been playing in Dinosaur Jr, along with drummer Dan Peters who was on loan from Mudhoney.
Just ahead of the album's release, I talked to Gary Lee Conner via Zoom about the album, which is dedicated to Lanegan (who died in 2022) and Van (who died in January of this year), and about what other music from the Screaming Trees archive might next see the light of day. We also talked about the Singles soundtrack, touring with Soul Asylum and The Spin Doctors on the 1993 MTV Alternative Nation Tour, and more.
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