Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)

Album: Stone Free (1993)
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Songfacts®:

  • M.A.C.C. is made up of Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Jeff Ament and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron. The name of the band is the initials of all their last names.
  • This is a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song. That song was part of an album Hendrix was working on at the time of his death.
  • It is the only release by M.A.C.C. and it appears on a tribute to Hendrix that also featured artists like Eric Clapton and the Spin Doctors.
  • The members of this band had collaborated on Temple of the Dog earlier in the decade.

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