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When Kurt Cobain Met William S. Burroughs

Matthew Beale @ 2020-03-21 09:08:34 -0400

Although "The "Priest" They Called Him" might be the most obscure thing in Kurt Cobain’s discography, it’s probably the best selling musical collaboration of William S Burroughs’s recording career. In 1992, Cobain contacted his hero about working on something together. Burroughs sent him a tape of a reading he had done of a short story originally published in his Exterminator collection in 1973 and Cobain added some guitar backing based on “Silent Night” and “To Anacreon in Heaven.” It was originally released as a limited edition 10-inch EP picture disc on Tim/Kerr Records in 1993, it was subsequently re-released on...