Such is the oral tradition of folk and blues music, many traditional favourites exist in the ether and are passed on via live performance and recordings across the decades. The origins and ownership of the song are lost to history. “In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don’t ever shine, I shiver the whole night through.” The song in question, of course, is Cobain’s take on Leadbelly’s 1944 recording, ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’, also known as ‘In The Pines’: When Kurt Cobain let out the immortal howl that closes Nirvana’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ in 1993, it was an emotional outpouring that measured the distance the song he was singing had travelled over 120 years.
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