Pearl Jam are not short of songs to pull from for their current tour – I mean, you don’t when you’ve released 12 studio albums, do you? But even now, Eddie Vedder and co. love slipping a cover version in there somewhere. On the US leg of the tour to support their excellent recent record Dark Matter, they’ve continued their fine tradition of covers by diving into renditions of Bob Dylan and/or Jimi Hendrix’s All Along The Watchtower, Jason Isbell’s Maybe It’s Time, Warren Zevon’s Keep Me In Your Heart and more. Yes, you want to walk away from a Pearl Jam having heard them play the classics with some surprising deep cuts in between (hello Hard To Imagine!), but it’s just as thrilling to hear one of the world’s most well-drilled rock’n’roll bands Pearl Jam-ise another song. They’ve had a lot of practice. Here is ten of the best covers by Pearl Jam:
