Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder has shared a new cover of R.E.M.‘s 1992 track ‘Drive’ – you can listen to it below.The reworking of the lead single from R.E.M.’s eighth studio album, ‘Automatic For The People’, features on the soundtrack for Flag Day, a new crime drama directed by Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn.Staying faithful to the original, the Pearl Jam frontman delivers a reverent rendition of ‘Drive’, adding a hint of eeriness, due mostly to Vedder’s smokey vocal tone.
You can listen to the cover below.Elsewhere on the Flag Day soundtrack, Vedder features on a further nine songs – most of which are collaborations with Irish rocker and Once songwriter Glen Hansard, who besides being an Oscar-winning musician also played Outspan Foster in The.
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