“Over Now” by Alice In Chains

"Over Now" closes out Alice in Chains' self-titled third album from 1995, and it plays like the band writing its own eulogy. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney built the music, Cantrell wrote the words and sang them, and the subject was the way the group had come apart in 1994. Toby Wright produced it with the band and mixed it, and the song leans on acoustic guitar and a weary, unhurried drawl, Mike Inez and Kinney keeping the pulse low and steady.

Its second life came on MTV Unplugged, where it was the last song of the televised show; that live take became the single in 1996, with the studio cut tucked on the flip. It was the only time the band ever played it. Cantrell finally dusted it off at a solo gig in Los Angeles in December 2019.

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