In the Pines(Where Did You Sleep Last Night?) is a traditional that originated in the late 19th Century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_Pines http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics/l/Leadbelly
Performed by Blind Willies at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Zeum, San Francisco, May 2004
Blind Willies performed a set before a San Francisco School of the Arts music/drama premiere, Hard Travelin', based on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie's songs, adapted by Susan Stauter. Following the set, Alexei and Annie were troubadours accompanying the Joad family from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to California's Depression Era migrant camps in the 1930s.