Sari Schorr shares her version of Lead Belly classic Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

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Sari Schorr

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Brussels

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Saturday, 2. October 2021

New York Blues Rock singer/songwriter Sari Schorr has released her haunting new single: a cover of the folk-blues classic — "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Sari's recording features a new musical arrangement and eloquently updated lyrics that shift the song's focus onto events that sparked the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 to protest police brutality and systematic racism that overwhelmingly affects the Black community.

Like many folk-blues songs, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" — also known as "In the Pines" —has a fascinating backstory, and many interpretations exist. The song is believed to date way back to the 1870s, with the first recording of it being laid down in 1926 by banjo player Dock Walsh. The most famous versions were recorded by American bluegrass musician Bill Monroe (1941) and the iconic folk and blues singer, Lead Belly (1944), who recorded it many times. Modern artists have also performed and recorded the song, with Nirvana performing an unplugged rendition for MTV in 1994, based on Lead Belly's version.

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