Mark Lanegan and Kurt Cobain sing Leadbelly
In a couple weeks, I'm going to see a performance by the Gutter Twins, the joint project of Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age fame. (If you haven't heard the Gutter Twins album, Saturnalia, it's a deeply moving and soulful collection of neo-gothic gospel.) 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.
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