Jake Blount - Where Did You Sleep Last Night

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Jake Blount - “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” covered by Jake Blount from the 2020 album Spider Tales on Free Dirt Records.

The song "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" has been covered hundreds of times before — the track is often associated with blues musician Lead Belly, but the Nirvana version from their 1993 MTV Unplugged performance is perhaps the best known rendition. And now, banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount has added his own interpretation, influenced by his research into Black and Indigenous cultures, as well as his own experiences as an LGBTQ activist.

“Connecting with my family history and my father’s childhood history, he’d talk about people disappearing,” he reflected in a press release. “Those lynchings didn’t all happen in broad daylight; my dad talked about people in his community ‘disappearing’ and you’d kind of assume what had happened. For me there was a very direct connection between what I’d gone through in the queer community and this narrative of disappearance and loss that surrounded the Black community in the South throughout much of our nation’s history, and still arguably does.”

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0:00.0	The You're not going to be here. My boy, my boy, don't lie to me
0:35.0	Tell me where did you sleep last night
0:40.0	In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine.
0:49.0	I would shiver the whole night through. You're here. My boy, my boy, where will you go?
1:31.0	Oh, I'm going where the cold wind flows. In the pines, in the pines, where the pines, where the sun will finds when the sun will never shine I would shiver the old night. You're not going to do. Oh, you know. His husband was a hardworking man about a mile and a hour from here.
2:27.0	About a mile and a hour from here. They found his head in a driver's wheel, but his body never was found.
2:45.0	Never was found. Oh, My boy, my boy, don't but I mean.
3:24.0	Tell me where did you sleep last night?
3:30.0	In the pines, in my pines, where the sun don't ever shine, I would shiver the whole night
3:42.4	through. You're going to.

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