MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE “INTO THE WILD” - EDDIE VEDDER
In 1990, recent college graduate Christopher McCandless cut off all contact with his family, donated all his money to charity and embarked on an epic cross-country journey that ended with his death two years later in the Alaskan wilderness. His story was first told in a 1996 Jon Krakauer book and is about to hit the big screen in a Sean Penn-directed film with this soundtrack from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. The motivations behind McCandless’ journey may have been known only to him, but Vedder effectively conjures the endless possibilities of the open road with sparse, never morose, tracks akin to Pearl Jam’s “Thumbing My Way” or “Elderly Woman.” Especially appropriate are the bittersweet “End of the Road,” the primal “The Wolf” and the finger-picked acoustic instrumental “Tuolumne,” which mirror the long stretches of McCandless’ quest that were made in complete solitude.
