It was the seventh of only 302 D-18Es built by Martin and was customized by Cobain who added a Bartolini pickup to the soundhole. Cobain’s mastery of this guitar along with Nirvana’s flawless acoustic and vocal performance propelled the MTV Unplugged in New York album to multi-platinum certification and won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996. Billboard charts and is consistently ranked among the top ten live albums of all time. Cuts from the album, released seven months after Cobain’s death, would go on to become the most celebrated and defining versions of Nirvana’s songs, "About A Girl," "All Apologies," "Come As You Are," and "Dumb," as well as covers of David Bowie’s "The Man Who Sold the World," The Meat Puppets’ "Lake of Fire," and a haunting rendition of Lead Belly’s "Black Girl" renamed "Where Did You Sleep Last Night." MTV Unplugged in New York debuted at number one on the U.S. Nirvana’s acoustic performance that night produced one of the greatest live albums of all time, MTV Unplugged in New York. In a live taping for the popular MTV Unplugged series on November 18th, 1993, approximately five months before his death, Cobain chose this guitar to paint what Rolling Stone called "his last self-portrait". Kurt Cobain played this 1959 Martin D-18E in what would become Nirvana’s most legendary performance (seen in cover above).
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