“Wake Up” by Mad Season

"Wake Up" comes from Above, the only studio album Mad Season ever made, released on Columbia on March 14, 1995, and it's credited to all four members, with Layne Staley writing the words. The band was a Seattle side project with its roots in rehab: Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready met John Baker Saunders while in treatment in Minneapolis during the making of Vitalogy, and back in Seattle in 1994 the two teamed up with Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and started writing.

McCready then brought in his friend Staley, the Alice in Chains frontman, hoping a band of sober musicians might push him toward getting sober himself. They cut the album at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle in 1994 with Brett Eliason, once Pearl Jam's sound engineer, producing and mixing, and Staley made the cover art too.

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