FANTASTIC version featuring Kurt on guitar and Kris on bass, listen closely and you hear Kurt singing some back up screaming at the end of the song. This album ended up being a huge influence on Nirvana`s Unplugged performance.
In a Rolling Stone article from July 14, 2005, Dave Grohl had the following to say about The Winding Sheet:
"We'd seen the other Unpluggeds and didn't like many of them, because most bands would treat them like rock shows -- play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden, except with acoustic guitars. We wanted to do something different. Like, let's call the Meat Puppets, and let's see if we can learn this Bowie cover. Like the Lead Belly song ["Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" -- also recorded by Mark Lanegan]. Kurt looked up to Lanegan, and his first solo record, The Winding Sheet, is one of the best albums of all time. That was the soundtrack to my first six months in Olympia [Washington]. I listened to it every day -- when the sun wouldn't come up, when it went down too early and when it was cold and raining. I was lonely. I'd listen to that record for reasons. It was a huge influence on our Unplugged thing."
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