My Own Private Alaska - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Acoustic Cover)

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From '' Red Sessions ''
Released: 2011

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"In the Pines", also known as "Black Girl" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", is a traditional American folk song which dates back to at least the 1870s, and is believed to be Southern Appalachian in origin.
The identity of the song's author is unknown.
Traditionally, it is most often associated with the American folk musician Lead Belly, who recorded several versions in the 1940s.

Cover versions

Bill Monroe
Lead Belly
Dick Justice "Brownskin Blues"
Cryin' Sam Collins
Cows
Peg Leg Howell with Eddie Anthony
Nathan Abshire
The Pine Leaf Boys
Pete Seeger
Josh White
The Louvin Brothers
The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling
Bob Dylan
Hole - Courtney Love
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who also covered the song (most notably on MTV's Unplugged in 1993)
The New Christy Minstrels
Joan Baez
Doc Watson
Roscoe Holcomb
The Four Pennies
Clifford Jordan with singer Sandra Douglass
The Pleazers
Grateful Dead
Tiny Tim
Norma Tanega
John Phillips
Long John Baldry with Maggie Bell
Michelle Woods and Deepak Sampathu
Dave Van Ronk
Link Wray
The Osborne Brothers
Gene Clark
Charlie Feathers
Blood on the Saddle featuring Annette Zilinskas
Mark Lanegan
The Winding Sheet.
Dolly Parton
Alexander Veljanov
Odetta
Josh White
Dee Dee Ramone and Youth Gone Mad
R. Crumb
Ralph Stanley & Jimmy Martin
(Smog)
Susheela Raman
Micah P. Hinson
Tracy Bonham
Star Pupil
Piter Wilkens
Hugo Race
Jack Rose
Martin Simpson
Della Mae
Doug Sahm ( Sir Douglas Quintet )

Appearances

In films

The song can be heard in the background of the Nicholas Ray film The True Story of Jesse James.
A few lines of the song are sung by Sissy Spacek, playing Loretta Lynn, in the 1980 film, Coal Miner's Daughter.
Lead Belly's version of the song appears in the 1997 horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Sung at the funeral of Jo Van Fleet character Ella Garth in the 1960 dramatic film, Wild River (film).
A version is sung by Nicholas X. Parsons in the 2009 independent cult dark-comedy suspense thriller film, In The Pines, directed by Chip Johnson
Part of the song can be heard at the end of the movie Lucky Number Slevin, directed by Paul McGuigan

In plays

The song appears in the 1958 play A Taste of Honey, by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney. It is sung by the character Josephine, who replaces the lyric "black girl" with "black boy." The "black boy" in the play is her boyfriend Jimmy, a black sailor who impregnated her.
The song also appears in the 2009 play Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel as Holly Golightly. Sung acoustically by Holly at the front of the stage with just a guitar.

In literature

The song is mentioned in Charles Frazier's novel Thirteen Moons. While writing of the progress of the railroad through North Carolina in the years following Reconstruction, the lead character, Will Cooper, reminisces of a song, "about pines and the head caught in the driving wheel and the body on the line, the narrator pleading to know where his woman slept last night."
One of Manly Wade Wellman's fantasy stories about the minstrel-hero Silver John is "Shiver In The Pines", and makes reference to the song.
The Andrea Cabassi short story Where did you sleep last night develops from the plot of this song's lyrics.
The poet Alice Notley has written a book length poem sequence entitled "In The Pines" (2007)

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