Over Now is a song by Alice in Chains, written by Jerry Cantrell, who also sings lead vocals, the song is the last track on the band’s third studio album, Alice in Chains (1995), and it is about the 1995 breakup of the band.
The song closed the televised broadcast of Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged performance, and that version was released as a single in 1996. The B-side is the original studio version. The single peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and at No. 24 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1996.
The song was included on the live album Alice in Chains Unplugged (1996), on the box set Music Bank (1999), and the compilation album The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). The MTV Unplugged concert was the first and (as of 2019) only time that Alice in Chains performed the song. It was performed again 23 years later at Jerry Cantrell‘s solo concert at the Pico Union Project in Los Angeles on December 6, 2019.
Playlist:
- Over Now (Unplugged)
- Over Now (album version)
Alice in Chains
Jerry Cantrell: lead vocals, guitar
Layne Staley: backing vocals
Mike Inez: bass
Sean Kinney: drums, percussion
Scott Olso: acoustic guitar (Unplugged version only)
Layne Staley (August 22, 1967 – April 5, 2002).
