Video Eddie Vedder Performs Solo Version of Pearl Jam’s ‘River Cross’ For ‘One World’ Benefit

Eddie Vedder Performs Solo Version of Pearl Jam’s ‘River Cross’

       Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder performed a spine-chilling solo version of “River Cross” at the One World: Together at Home benefit event on Saturday night (Apr. 18).

Dressed in a black shirt and black ballcap and surrounded by candles, Eddie Vedder performed the song — which appears on Pearl Jam’s Gigaton album — with his own groaning organ work as the lone accompaniment. The song’s closing refrain of “Share the light/ Won’t hold us down,” delivered in Vedder’s signature wail, proved a powerful message for a very fragile cultural moment.