Sunday, April 29th 2012
News: Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder Offers Gorgeous New Song ‘Skipping’ for Compilation
We have a beautiful new song from Eddie Vedder this morning, called Skipping. The track is featured on the new compilation Every Mother Counts, the namesake of a foundation dedicated to addressing the issue of maternal mortality during pregnancy.
The love letter from a parent to a child is a delicate, complexly personal yet gorgeous composition, a conveyance of unquenchable adoration between souls that may be entirely lost on those without children of their own – or at least a true depth of love with which they can relate.
Framed by the sounds of his own daughter playing and gentle acoustic guitar tones, the Pearl Jam frontman delivers a heartfelt performance full of gorgeous self-harmonizing that does a fine job of encapsulating the tenderness, fragility, pride, joy and immersive love of a bond between a father and child, wrapped in the metaphor of skipping along with her. He knows that the moment and innocent joy can’t possibly last forever, and the song is a conveyance of cherishing that fleeting purity of a childhood connection with a parent.
Listen to Skipping here, or below:
It’s a deeply personal track, once which doesn’t fit the single cycle or the hype headline machine. So it’s with a warm feeling that I’m able to post this on a quiet Sunday morning.
Thanks to the lovely Marcia Reed for the heads up.
So Vedder’s genre is Hippies eh? This is what happens when you let Skwerl run wild.
You have no idea.
Was thinking this morning about how things would be if Gossard and Ament never got that tape with Eddie’s voice on it. There are so many moments I found myself in complete awe of what this band, and Eddie individually, can do musically. So happy to be alive and have grown up with this band, and Eddie’s voice, in particular.
The child in this song is Vedder’s NIECE Olivia Bierman, not his daughter as most believe.