According to former 'Hole' guitarist Eric Erlandson, who was also a good friend of Cobain's, the Nirvana front man was in the process of putting together a solo record when that shotgun took his life. In an interview with Fuse that Erlandson did to promote his book Letters To Kurt he compared Kurt's work to that of The Beatles'. Erlandson is quoted as saying "[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his 'White Album.' "

Later he says “That’s really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people. I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That’s why I was really sad [when he died]. I was like, ‘Oh man, not only are you cutting off a life, but a message to the world, a musical path is just left with … Bush and all this other stuff [laughs]. He was cut short. Who knows where the music would have gone.”

I personally have mixed feelings on whether more music from Cobain would be good. I often wonder if at least some part of the fact that he is so idolized is because his time was cut short. There is that sense of what-if surrounding Kurt's life. Much like it is with Hendrix or Morrison, his music is put on a pedestal because the story had only begun when it was ended. I am not saying I wouldn't kill to hear more from him, and would love for him to still be around experimenting and releasing tunes, but would it mean as much if he were still alive? Alas, that is a question that will never, and can never, be answered so we are left to wonder "What if?"

Erlandson also mentioned a cover that Cobain recorded, but failed to identify the tune. Instead stating "it’s a very sweet, just touching song.”

While we wait for that release here is another great cover: