Marc Riley - 13/09/2010

Say hello to Marc, some CDs, and Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan live in the studio Isobel and Mark have just released Hawk. It's their third album together and probably their most diverse yet, featuring as it does folk, country, blues, gospel, dream-pop and Southern soul. Written, produced and arranged by Campbell "Hawk" was recorded in such disparate place as California, Texas, Louisiana, Denmark, Edinburgh and Campbell's native Glasgow. It follows 2006's Mercury-nominated Ballad of the Broken Seas and 2008's Sunday at Devil Dirt. Before this Lanegan sung with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age. In addtion he's also found time to work with the Soul Savers and be 50% of the Gutter Twins with Afghan Whig Greg Dulli. Campbell was of course a long time member of Belle and Sebastian. The duo are promoting Hawk with dates in Glasgow and London, supported by Willie Mason who also appears on the album.