Three years before Nirvana covered Lead Belly’s take on “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” to close their ‘Unplugged’ special, Kurt Cobain backed Mark Lanegan on the tune.
tour. Cobain spent days at a time chilling with Lanegan in Olympia, Washington, and listening to old blues records they both loved. “One afternoon at his place, we started talking about making a record,” Lanegan wrote in his 2020 memoir. “‘We should do a record of this stuff,’ one of us suggested. And then the other, ‘We should do a record of all Lead Belly covers.’ “
They had a lot of fun talking about it, but actually recording it was a different matter. “Being pals was easy but creating together turned out to be more difficult as our respect for one another turned it into an oddly unproductive exercise,” Lanegan wrote. “Neither Kurt nor I were really willing to grab the reins.
They gave up the idea pretty quickly, but their take on “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” — a traditional folk tune that Lead Belly recorded several times in the Forties — surfaced onthe following year. By that time, Nirvana was starting to gain national recognition. They also occasionally played “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” in concert, but the most famous rendition took place on Nov. 18, 1993, at theirspecial at Sony Music Studios in New York City.
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