The Winding Sheet is the debut studio album by alternative rock artist Mark Lanegan.

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.

When the album shipped without the cover art being changed per the agreement between him and Sub Pop co-owner Bruce Pavitt, Lanegan stormed into Pavitt's office at Sub Pop, berating him and threatening him with legal action and various acts of violence, and threatened to have the albums pulled from store shelves.

In I Am the Wolf: Lyrics and Writings, Lanegan recalls Endino "constantly assuring me that what we were doing was not terrible" and notes that the songs were "born of sadness and uncertainty with my circumstances at the time: relationships, money problems, alcohol, depression, addiction, and so on.

[3] The Seattle Times opined that "the album elevates Lanegan to the status of one of the Northwest's most intriguing and promising rock artists.