Mike Watt, The Secondman’s Middle Stand (2004)

“Punk singer Mike Watt’s third solo album, The Secondman’s Middle Stand (2004), is a concept album that derives its structure from TheDivine Comedy.”    —Wikipedia

“The storyline for the nine-track album parallel’s Watt’s real-life January 2000 bout with a near-fatal infection in his perineum with one of his favorite pieces of literature, Dante’s The Divine Comedy The first three tracks of the album represent the Inferno (Watt’s illness up until the time the abscess burst); the second three songs represent the Purgatorio (Watt’s surgery and subsequent recovery), and the final three represent the Paradiso (Watt’s resuming his everyday life and career).    —Wikipedia

Read a review of Mike Watt’s album on Pitchfork, and check out the full tracklist here.