Looking Out Foundation have shared a new video of Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready reading the story of a child trying to escape Syria. The video features a clip of Pearl Jam’s new cover of Brandi Carlile’s “Again Today.”
“I went out with my mother to look for him. There was a lot of dust, I couldn’t breathe. My Mum was screaming… people were crying and there was lots of blood.”.
10 year old Dima and her family were in a queue of cars waiting to legally cross the border into Lebanon – and escape the violence in Syria.
A month earlier their home had been destroyed by another rocket. Her Dad had got out to see what the hold up in the convoy was. Now he lay dead. “I recognised him from his boots. His face was covered in blood. My Mum was shaking him. I didn’t know what to do, I only felt my heart was beating faster than ever.” Dima’s mother and her five children were terrified and feared further attacks. They were forced to leave his dead body by the roadside. “I couldn’t even bury my husband … I will never forgive myself.” her mother says through her tears.
Pearl Jam, Adele, and other artists will be featured on Cover Stories, a new tribute album to singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile. Former President Barack Obama wrote the LP’s foreword. The album will benefit children in Mosul through War Child U.K.
Obama gave the following statement, via Rolling Stone:
“As an artist, Brandi Carlile is using her talent on behalf of the most vulnerable among us, children living in areas of conflict. She reminds us that, together, we can build for our children a more just, peaceful world.”
Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story – An Album to Benefit War Child Tracklisting:
01 Shovels & Rope – “Late Morning Lullaby”
02 Dolly Parton – “The Story”
03 Kris Kristofferson – “Turpentine”
04 Old Crow Medicine Show – “My Song”
05 Jim James – “Wasted”
06 The Avett Brothers – “Have You Ever”
07 Anderson East – “Josephine”
08 Secret Sisters – “Losing Heart”
09 Indigo Girls – “Cannonball”
10 TORRES – “Until I Die”
11.Margo Price – “Downpour”
12 Ruby Amanfu – “Shadow On The Wall”
13 Pearl Jam – “Again Today”
14 Adele – “Hiding My Heart”
