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Nirvana does LeadBelly on BoingBoing by Decius at 8:28 am EST, Jan 27, 2009
Having emerged from Seattle's influential Sub Pop music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lanegan was also a close friend of the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Here's a duet of those two singing a searing rendition of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," available on Lanegan's 1990 solo album The Winding Sheet.
Another good musical thread on BoingBoing, this one involving a Nirvana cover of In the pines that I hadn't heard. The thread links a few more interesting renditions of the song, and makes reference to three other LeadBelly covers that appear on a box set that I don't have. I looked those three up on YouTube and included links to them below:
