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Originally Posted by maverickeastwood

I was listening to the Nirvana Unplugged album, specifically "Where did you sleep last night" (awesome tune). Later on, I was going through the where the song had come from and had found that Nirvana wasn't the original composer. Turns out it was a bluesman named Huddie Ledbetter AKA Leadbelly that sang it (not wrote it, it's actually an old folk tune of origins unknown) long before Nivana covered it. So I found a Leadbelly CD at HMV and bought it and also found another song that I never knew was that old! Turns out Ramjets "blackbetty" is a variation of "Looky Looky Yonder" on the Leadbelly album!

Any other CP'ers know of any other tunes that are older than they seem? Kinda neat to know.

There's an amazing demo version of "where did you sleep last night" on Nirvana's box set. It's recorded in such a low quality way that it sounds like it was recorded way back in the day of the early blues recordings.