Ill Take Care of You, released in September 1999 on Sub Pop and Beggars Banquet, finds Mark Lanegan channeling his brooding baritone into a plaintive, deeply personal covers album. Rather than reinvent, he reinterprets songs from various American traditionsblues, folk, and soulwith spare arrangements and emotional gravity. Lanegan leans on minimal instrumentation: acoustic guitar, organ, soft percussion, and subtle touches of strings or flute. Throughout, he imbues each track with a sense of haunted intimacy, making the album less a tribute than a reshaped meditation on loss and yearning.

Highlights include his intense take on Consider Me, the aching title track, and a quietly tormented reading of On Jesus Program. His voice, at once weathered and expressive, unites the 11 selections into a cohesive whole that feels like confession rather than performance. Over time, Ill Take Care of You has been celebrated not just as a covers record but as one of Lanegans most emotionally resonant works, reinforcing his place as a seminal interpreter of American songcraft.

"I'll Take Care of You really is one of his most affecting, accessible recordings, if not the most." AllMusic

Lanegan transforms these songs into a landscape recognizable as the stark, tortured midnight soul of his previous works. Pitchfork

Its probably his finest, most tenderly-delivered work to date. NME

Using many musicians whom he has worked with before the arrangements and instrumentation are never less than impressive. Lanegans voice has never sounded better. Pennyblack Music

Review

A1 Carry Home
A2 I'Ll Take Care Of You
A3 Shiloh Town
A4 Creeping Coastline Of Lights
A5 Badi-Da
B1 Consider Me
B2 On Jesus' Program
B3 Little Sadie
B4 Together Again
B5 Shanty Man'S Life
B6 Boogie Boogie