Editing Kurt Cobain (section)

=== Other collaborations ===
In 1989, members of Nirvana and fellow American [[alternative rock]] band [[Screaming Trees]] formed a side project known as the Jury. The band featured Cobain on vocals and guitar, [[Mark Lanegan]] on vocals, [[Krist Novoselic]] on bass, and [[Mark Pickerel]] on drums. Over two days of recording sessions, on August 20 and 28, 1989, the band recorded four songs also performed by [[Lead Belly]]; "[[In the Pines|Where Did You Sleep Last Night?]]", an instrumental version of "[[Grey Goose (folk song)|Grey Goose]]", "[[Ain't It a Shame]]", and "[[They Hung Him on a Cross]]", the latter of which featured Cobain performing solo.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://livenirvana.com/sessions/studio/august-1989.php|title=Live Nirvana &#124; LiveNirvana.com Sessions History &#124; Studio Sessions &#124; (The Jury) August 20 & 28, 1989 – Reciprocal Recording, Seattle, WA, US|publisher=LiveNIRVANA|access-date=May 2, 2010|archive-date=January 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106171113/http://www.livenirvana.com/sessions/studio/august-1989.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Cobain was inspired to record the songs after receiving a copy of ''Lead Belly's Last Sessions'' from friend [[Slim Moon]]; after hearing it, he "felt a connection to Leadbelly's almost physical expressions of longing and desire."<ref>{{cite book|title=Nirvana – The True Story|last=True|first=Everett|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=2006|isbn=978-1-84449-640-2|pages=146, 636}}</ref>

In 1990, Cobain and his girlfriend, [[Tobi Vail]] of the [[riot grrrl]] band [[Bikini Kill]], collaborated on a musical project called Bathtub is Real in which they both sang and played guitar and drums. They recorded their songs on a [[Stereo-Pak|four-track tape]] machine that belonged to Vail's father. In [[Everett True]]'s 2009 book ''Nirvana: The Biography'', Vail is quoted as saying that Cobain "would play the songs he was writing, I would play the songs I was writing and we'd record them on my dad's four-track. Sometimes I'd sing on the songs he was writing and play drums on them ... He was really into the fact that I was creative and into music. I don't think he'd ever played music with a girl before. He was super-inspiring and fun to play with."<ref>{{cite book |last=True |first=Everett |url=https://archive.org/details/nirvanabiography00true |title=Nirvana: The Biography |date=March 13, 2007 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |isbn=978-0306815546 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |page=[https://archive.org/details/nirvanabiography00true/page/187 187] |author-link=Everett True |url-access=registration}}</ref> The musician [[Slim Moon]] described their sound as "like the minimal quiet pop songs that Olympia is known for. Both of them sang; it was really good."<ref>{{cite web |title=LIVE NIRVANA SESSIONS HISTORY: (Bathtub Is Real) 1990 – ?, Olympia, WA, US |url=http://www.livenirvana.com/sessions/home/1990bathtubisreal.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101201135/http://www.livenirvana.com/sessions/home/1990bathtubisreal.php |archive-date=November 1, 2013 |access-date=October 23, 2013 |website=livenirvana.com}}</ref>

In 1992, Cobain contacted [[William S. Burroughs]] about a possible collaboration. Burroughs responded by sending him a recording of "[[The Junky's Christmas]]"<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_kurt_cobain_met_william_burroughs|title=When Kurt Cobain met William Burroughs|date=October 26, 2012|work=DangerousMinds|access-date=October 11, 2018|archive-date=October 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011133359/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/when_kurt_cobain_met_william_burroughs|url-status=live}}</ref> (which he recorded in his studio in [[Lawrence, Kansas]]).<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|url=http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/ithe_priest_they_called_himi_a_dark_collaboration_between_kurt_cobain_william_s_burroughs.html|title=The "Priest" They Called Him: A Dark Collaboration Between Kurt Cobain & William S. Burroughs|work=Open Culture|access-date=October 13, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=October 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172855/http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/ithe_priest_they_called_himi_a_dark_collaboration_between_kurt_cobain_william_s_burroughs.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Two months later at a studio in [[Seattle]], Cobain added guitar backing based on "Silent Night" and "To Anacreon in Heaven". The two would meet shortly later in Lawrence, Kansas and produce "[[The "Priest" They Called Him|The 'Priest' They Called Him]]", a spoken word version of "The Junky's Christmas".<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":12" />