Pearl Jam, Nelson Rock Young’s Bridge Benefits

Billboard reports Pearl Jam, Wilco, Counting Crows, Willie Nelson and others joined Neil Young and his bandmates in Crosby, Stills & Nash last weekend for the 17th annual Bridge School Benefit concerts outside San Francisco. Pearl Jam’s Bridge appearances came in the middle of a four-show acoustic benefit tour, and several tunes were dusted off for the occasion. Four of the group’s seven selections on Saturday night were covers, including a stern reading of Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War,’ a frantic run through Johnny Cash’s ’25 Minutes To Go’ and the Ramones’ ‘I Believe in Miracles.’ Pearl Jam also unveiled a new ballad, ‘Man of the Hour,’ and closed on Sunday with ‘The Long Road,’ featuring Young on pump organ.