Saturday, May 7, 2011
ukulele
YouTube helped make the ukulele a starWhen Eddie Vedder, the reclusive, notoriously angry lead singer of grunge-band Pearl Jam, announced his latest album in March, the headline read like something from The Onion: "Eddie Vedder to release solo album of ukulele songs." It wasn't a joke. The singer, known better for his growling anthems about teenage suicide and the war dead, had turned to
