![]() ![]() Bringing his friend (and ex-Screaming Trees singer ) Mark Lanegan on tour with the Twilights, Dulli recorded with him under the name The Gutter Twins in 2008. After the band’s breakup, Dulli’s next project, the Twilight Singers, continued to play covers or medleys during live performances Dulli released an all-covers disc, She Loves You, in 2004. Their next album covered a song from the classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.ĭuring the heyday of the CD single in the 1990s, the Whigs released at least one cover song as an extra track on almost every single they made, causing completists to seek out expensive import discs to get their fix. The Afghan Whigs’ first album on Sub Pop, Up In It, covered Paul K and the Weathermen, not exactly a household name. ![]() His song choices are often the manifestation of his own obscure and eclectic tastes. ![]() Through it all, he has focused his obsession with other people’s tunes, particularly black music across several genres, into a funnel cloud of cock rock fury, soulful loneliness, and unrequited lust.ĭulli has never shied away from recording other’s people’s songs, even at the beginning of his career. Dulli has never sat still for long, alternately fronting The Twilight Singers, The Gutter Twins, and going out solo from time to time. He’s sobered up, lost a lot of weight, and, after years of will-they-or-won’t-they speculation, his primary band the Afghan Whigs toured the better part of last year after a baker’s dozen years of absence. ![]()
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