VEDDER EDDIE/UKELELE SONGS

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DESCRIPTIONTHE DELUXE EDITION LP FEATURES THE ORIGINAL 16-TRACK UKULELE SONGS ALBUM ON HIGH-GRADE 180-GRAM BLACK VINYL IN EXPANDED PACKAGING THAT INCLUDES A 16-PAGE BOOKLET AND A SPECIAL LITHOGRAPH. THE STANDARD EDITION LP HAS ALSO BEEN PRESSED ON 180-GRAM BLACK VINYL.UKULELE SONGS COMPRISES A FINE MIXTURE OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL PENNED BY VEDDER THAT HE INITIALLY PERFORMED LIVE ALONGSIDE VINTAGE CLASSICS AND STANDARDS. A RECAST UKE-DRIVEN VERSION OF CANT KEEP WHICH ORIGINALLY APPEARED AS THE OPENING TRACK ON PEARL JAMS HARD-CHARGING NOVEMBER 2002 ALBUM RIOT ACT OPENS THE PROCEEDINGS WHILE NEWER-BRED ORIGINAL SONGS LIKE THE RESIGNED LAMENT OF SLEEPING BY MYSELF THE CHARMING LOVE ORBIT OF SATELLITE THE HOPEFUL BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT TODAY AND THE INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE WAVING PALMS ALL SET THE TABLE FOR THE 35-MINUTE ALBUM.GUEST VOCALISTS APPEAR ON A PAIR OF KEY UKULELE TRACKS BOTH OF THEM FINE COVERS OF NOTABLE STANDARDS. FIRST GLEN HANSARD (THE FRAMES ONCE) ADDS HIS IRISH FOLK DNA TO SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY FELICE AND BOUDREAUX BRYANT AND REMADE BY THE EVERLY BROTHERS IN 1960 IN ADDITION TO LATER BEING COVERED BY THE LIKES OF EMMYLOU HARRIS PATTY LOVELESS AND ELVIS COSTELLO.SECOND CAT POWER LENDS HER PASSIONATE TONE TO TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME A JAZZ STANDARD WRITTEN IN 1926 BY LYRICIST BILLY ROSE AND COMPOSER LEE DAVID. THIS TRACK HAS ALSO BEEN SUBSEQUENTLY COVERED BY THE LIKES OF FRANKIE LAINE PATIENCE AND PRUDENCE AND DOTTIE WEST. VERSIONS OF YOU BELONG TO ME WERE ALSO RECENTLY FEATURED IN THE ACCLAIMED 2019 FILM DRAMA BLACKBIRD AND IN AN EPISODE OF THE 2020 HBO HORROR-DRAMA SERIES LOVECRAFT COUNTRY.THE LPS OTHER NOTEWORTHY COVERS INCLUDE STIRRING TAKES ON BILLY ROSE AND EDWARD ELISCUS MORE THAN YOU KNOW MICHAEL EDWARDS AND BUD GREENS ONCE IN A WHILE AND THE ALBUM-CLOSING READING OF FABIAN ANDRE WILBUR SCHWANDT AND GUS KAHNS DREAM A LITTLE DREAM.PRODUCED BY EDDIE VEDDER AND ADAM KASPER (FOO FIGHTERS SOUNDGARDEN) UKULELE SONGS PEAKED AT NO. 4 ON THE U.S. BILLBOARD 200 HIT NO. 2 ON THE U.S. TOP ROCK ALBUMS ON BILLBOARD AND ACHIEVED GOLD STATUS IN CANADA.