![]() ![]() It was certainly a challenge but fun at the same time. It made a very interesting and creative workspace for us to dig into. “The way I would describe it is, it’s as if the music and the vocals are distinctly different from each other yet they find a way to mesh together for the greater good. I knew them by their tour shirts, empty poster tubes tucked into their backpacks, and willingness to swap stories. “The more we listened and studied the way members played together and interacted in their music, the more we appreciated what this band’s musical genius was, and that being ‘incredibly disciplined but loosely attached,'” mandolinist Tony Robertson said in a statement. I’ve never run across a tighter, more friendly community than the Pearl Jam fan base, several of whom I shared a plane ride with the morning of last Saturday’s (August 20th, 2016) Wrigley Field show. ![]() Each reflects the sounds of Iron Horse’s Alabama origins, giving a Southern Gothic flair to the songs, turning Vedder’s words into something more akin to a Flannery O’Connor story or a Carson McCullers novel. ![]() You may request a song thats not in our catalog by using our request form. Iron Horse also raved up Pearl Jam hits like “Even Flow” (about an “insane”-looking street person), “Daughter” (about parents physically abusing their child), and “Better Man” (video below, about a woman trapped in a toxic relationship). Please note that our catalog only lists songs that weve set up within our system not every track from an album is displayed. Truly, the song has never sounded happier. They even break into four-part harmony during the chorus as the protagonist realizes that even with his father dead and the guilt he’s shouldering with his mother’s advances, hey, he’s still alive. Their third album, Vitalogy (1994), became the second-fastest-selling CD in history at the time, with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week. Iron Horse open it with a tremulous, upbeat banjo line, slowly expanding the backdrop while singer-guitarist Vance Henry delivers the lyrics more clearly and coherently than ol’ OedVed ever attempted. Released in 1993, Pearl Jams second album, Vs., sold over 950,000 copies in its first week of release, setting the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week of release at the time. The group’s interpretation of “Alive” - Vedder’s oedipal tale of a man guilted into an obsessive incestuous relationship with his mother (later to become a serial killer, but that’s another story*) - explodes with pure, exuberant joy. And now the long-running bluegrass quartet Iron Horse - who have strummed, chicken-picked, and mandolin-ified songs by Metallica, Van Halen, and Kanye West as part of CMH Records’ Pickin’ On series - have imbued some extra twang into 12 Pearl Jam staples for Pickin’ on Pearl Jam, a new album out now. Eddie Vedder himself has proven this time and again by switching between the rock group and his own solo ukulele ballads. Deep inside every hard-hitting Pearl Jam grunge-a-palooza lurks a bluegrass hoedown dying to do-si-do. ![]()
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