Eddie Vedder: Solo 'Ukulele Songs', Live DVD Set for May 31; Stream New Song

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder will release two projects on May 31 : a solo album featuring Vedder and his trusty ukulele -- Ukulele Songs -- and a live DVD Water On the Road. Both will be released via the band's own Monkeywrench Records

The Ukulele Songs album features sixteen tracks -- thirteen originals, three covers -- and includes guest vocals from Cat Power and Glen Hansard of The Swell Season. Lead single "Longing to Belong" is now available digitally -- stream the track below.

Also arriving on May 31st is Water on the Road, a concert DVD of performances from Vedder’s August 16th and 17th 2008 solo tour engagements at Washington, D.C.'s Warner Theatre. The DVD includes a performance of "You're True" from Ukulele Songs along with songs from the Pearl Jam catalog, covers and tracks from Vedder’s solo album Into The Wild.

Meanwhile, Pearl Jam will reconvene in next month to begin work on a new studio album.

Eddie Vedder - "Longing to Belong" (from the album Ukulele Songs)

Ukulele Songs:

1. Can’t Keep
2. Sleeping by Myself
3. Without You
4. More Than You Know
5. Goodbye
6. Broken Heart
7. Satellite
8. Longing to Belong
9. Hey Fahkah
10. You’re True
11. Light Today
12. Sleepless Nights (featuring Glen Hansard)
13. Once in Awhile
14. Waving Palms
15. Tonight You Belong to Me (featuring Cat Power)
16. Dream a Little Dream

Water on the Road DVD:

1. The Canyon
2. Sometimes
3. Trouble
4. Around the Bend
5. Girl From the North Country
6. Guaranteed
7. Setting Forth
8. Far Behind
9. No Ceiling
10. Rise
11. Golden State
12. Society
13. Forever Young
14. Ed Piano (Instrumental)
15. I’m Open
16. Man of the Hour
17. Driftin’
18. No More
19. You’re True
20. Ukulele Interlude (Instrumental)
21. Unthought Known
22. Arc
23. Hard Sun
24. The Canyon (reprise)

Comments

[Kelmenow]

Great clip you posted above, DC! I'm very excited about Eddie's new release. His voice is still so...longingly sanguine after all of these years.