The Winding Sheet is a studio
album by
alternative rock artist
Mark Lanegan. It was released in 1990 on
Sub Pop. The album was Lanegan's first solo work, and is notable in its departure from the characteristic sound of
Screaming Trees, the band he fronted from 1985 until 2000. While the work done in that group was much more energetic and fit into the burgeoning
grunge genre of the late 80s/early 90s,
The Winding Sheet has a much more stripped down sound, defining Lanegan's solo work largely for the rest of the decade. The album was a modest success. The term "winding sheet" is a synonym of
shroud. "The Winding Sheet" is also the title of a traditional
sea shanty that was the basis of the well known "Streets of Laredo".