NEWSSOURCEDOTCOM: EDDIE VEDDER

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder releases his first solo album in the form the soundtrack for the Sean Penn directed film Into The Wild on September 24th.

This is the first-ever complete collection of Eddie Vedder solo music.

The film, which opens in the UK on 9th November, is directed by Sean Penn. Director Sean Penn hand-picked Vedder to provide the music for the film. Vedder's cover of the song 'Hard Sun' (originally written by Gordon Peterson and performed by the band Indio on the album Big Harvest) features backing vocals by Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and appears in the film, along with a slew of other folky ballads.

The soundtrack is to the film adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book Into The Wild.

Vedder and Penn have been friends for over a decade; the Pearl Jam frontman previously contributed music to the soundtrack for Penn's 1995 film Dead Man Walking and also recorded a cover of the Beatles' You've Got To Hide Your Love Away for 2001's I Am Sam.

Contrary to internet reports, Eddie Vedder does not appear in the movie.

In the film a young idealist, played by Emile Hirsch (Alpha Dog, Girl Next Door) abandons all his possessions and life as most of us know it for the Alaskan wilderness.

Meanwhile, Eddie Vedder has also contributed two new songs, No More and Long Nights, to the documentary Body of War. The former track has been performed.

Track List

1. Setting Forth
2. No Ceiling
3. Far Behind
4. Rise
5. Long Nights
6. Tuolumne
7. Hard Sun
8. Society
9. The Wolf
10. End Of The Road
11. Guaranteed
12. Guaranteed (Humming Vocal)

SOURCE: COLUMBIA RECORDS UK