Mad Season "Above"

Barrett Martin: “Layne Staley felt as though he was on a spiritual mission through his music: not a rock mission, a spiritual mission.” Mad Season’s only album, Above, was released today in 1995. Layne Staley drew the album art, and the couple pictured was Layne and…

his then-fiancée. Mad Season was Staley, Martin, Mike McCready, and John Baker Saunders. Baker passed in 1999, and Layne in 2002. Mark Lanegan, who died just this February, contributed vocals on "I'm Above", "Long Gone Day", "Locomotive", "Black Book of Fear" and "Slip Away.”