Just finished listening to the new Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan album "Ballad of Broken Seas", and must say, it's OUTSTANDING. Their voices are absolutely perfect together, and the album covers a variety of different styles of music.

Here's a track from it:

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - The False Husband
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=29GB ... YCUOQ4MUTO

Here's info on the project/album:

Scottish chanteuse Isobel Campbell has inked a long term worldwide recording
deal with V2 Records. Isobel, formally of Belle & Sebastian, has spent the
initial part of this year completing work on æBallad of the Broken Seas, the
collaborative album recorded with former Screaming Trees & Queens of the Stone
Age singer, Mark Lanegan. Although much of the album was recorded with Campbell
in her native Glasgow, and Lanegan in Los Angeles, the two actually came
together in the studio in L.A. in May to cut a number of new tracks for the
release, including a new Lanegan penned song, Revolver and a version of the
traditional blues tune, St James Infirmary. Isobel initially met Mark Lanegan
in Glasgow while he was on tour with Queens Of The Stoneage. Professing to be a
big fan of her music, Lanegan made an offhand comment about how he would love
for them to make a record together. Isobel took the idea and ran with it,
writing a number of songs with Lanegan in mind, communicating with him via the
internet, and posting over tracks for him to add his vocals to.

"His voice is rough and a lot of people say mine is angelic," Campbell says of
Lanegan. "It's the two sides of the coin, really. That's how we both always
looked at it. It's very unlikely. It's a very feminine/masculine thing as well."

As for the sound of "Broken Seas," which features a "quite nasty" cover of Hank
Williams' "Ramblin' Man" that Campbell says would fit well in a Quentin
Tarantino movie, the artist offers, "I was going for an old-school kind of
approach. I'd been listening a lot to the 'American Recordings' by Johnny Cash
and I'm a huge, huge fan of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. It's kind of
sun-bleached and psychedelic, with a little bit of folk or country."

The first release under the V2 deal will be a download-only and limited edition
7" single, due out in the UK at the beginning of December, comprising the pair
cover of Hank Williams "Ramblin Man", with a new Campbell song, "Further into
the NightÆ" as the 7" b-side. "Ballad of the Broken Seas" is scheduled to follow
early in February 2006. Campbell plans to follow that up later in 2006 with a
second album; the more folk oriented "Milk White Sheets".

sounds good

I heard the Hank Williams cover and didn't like it.

But I haven't heard her full solo debut, just a couple songs. And I don't think I know anything he's done. And I barely know the original Hank Williams song.

So I guess I'm a terrible person to give an opinion.

if anyone wants the full length, shoot me a PM.

Sounds quite intriguing indeed.

I'm not going to request any more full YSIs until I'm in a position to reciprocate the favor a little more, but this is a definitely a release I'll be ordering soon.

dude, you should know me by now. do i ever ask for anything in return?? c'mon now.

check your pm's in a bit. others will be sent as well.

PM sent D. damn that is a GREAT song. can't wait to hear the entire album.

as always, thanks!

bump fo da Thursday peeps.

that was great, almost David Lynch more than Tarantino, she's got the Julee Cruise coo.