In the Pines

can anyone top this recording?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B_ZUcBNQMM

at some point lyrics changed from "black girl" to "little girl." i remember talking to my dad about this and he had something worth saying about it, but i don't remember exactly.

also this is a quite nice version of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uq-fO5x-G4

You know, I'm not even a huge Nirvana fan but I love that cover... His voice fits very well for it.

oh yeah, that one. not bad, eh. it wasn't just his voice, inflection, nor his intonation that fitted this piece.

  On 1/31/2012 at 10:22 PM, chomp said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B_ZUcBNQMM

 

at some point lyrics changed from "black girl" to "little girl." i remember talking to my dad about this and he had something worth saying about it, but i don't remember exactly.

 

also this is a quite nice version of it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uq-fO5x-G4

crippling falsetto in the first one. second one seems lame at first.

woop,

woop!

:(

leadbelly's version will always be the best. i used to have an mp3 of him playing guitar and humming it, but i cant seem to find it anymore.

john fahey has a nice version with a woman singing on it that was just released recently as part of a john fahey boxset.

also, dave van ronk kills it (because dave van ronk is fucking awesome).

jackson c frank does quite a haunting rendition aswell, but im a jackson c frank fanboy.

I actually really like the Bill Monroe version.

The Leadbelly version is great of course.

the nirvana unplugged one is fantastic - come on - Kurt puts a lot of emotion into it.

He got it from Mark Lanegan (nirvana basically was his backing band before they hit it big) - who does the same kind of screamy thing at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eujkWXfSl0

edit: would love to hear the melvins give this a treatment. also swans :)

  On 2/2/2012 at 2:29 AM, iep said:

second one seems lame at first.

I agree, but it builds nicely. I really enjoy when I listen to music that I thought was boring and realize it's not. It usually happens when I'm not thinking about listening to music, but am just listening to the music -- if that makes sense.

  On 2/2/2012 at 2:29 AM, iep said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UTOLuiB-_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6eNu7Nk4g

i think the Nirvana Unplugged one tops it, and then some.