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I may have posted these once a very long time ago, the photographer has been lost to time but these are scans from the back of the Just South of Heaven EP by Crime and the City Solution. Missing from this is Epic Soundtracks whose photo from this I do not have apparently.

I must have saved these in 2008-2009 and they're not great these days but they were fantastic quality back then.

BY JORDAN MAINZER

On record, Mark Lanegan’s voice is like gravel. Live, it’s like broken glass--even better. Whereas his lesser albums have sometimes suffered from strong-and-silent-man deep-voiced corniness, his performative delivery fits the minimal rawness of his finest tracks and the husky exclamations of his backup singers. This was immediately apparent last night at the Bottom Lounge on Bubblegum standout “Hit the City”, with one singer doing PJ Harvey’s part admirably. “Stitch It Up”, the first only song so far to be released from Lanegan’s upcoming Somebody’s Knocking, was a live highlight even though the song is like Mark Lanegan doing a Mark Lanegan impression, the charge of the band rendering the goofiness of the song (and its accompanying video) all but moot.

Of course, Lanegan’s got so many records of varying quality that how good the set is depends heavily on the set list, and last night’s curation was spot on in this listener’s ears. The first half of the set included a lot from strong 2017 album Gargoyle, including “The Passenger”-esque “Emperor”, as well as Blues Funeral, a favorite among hardcore fans. The biggest cheers, though, came from songs Bubblegum, which transcends fandom: “One Hundred Days”, duet “Bombed”, the sultry “Come to Me”, and rollicking closer “Methamphetamine Blues”. In between album releases, it was the perfect time to see what was basically a Lanegan greatest hits set.

Crime and the City Solution @ the Parody Hall 1986, shot by David Goodrich via Bent Edge KC Punk