"Brother" is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains and the opening track on their 1992 acoustic EP Sap.
[4] An acoustic version performed on Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged in 1996 was released in a live album and DVD.
In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection, Jerry Cantrell said of the song: Ours was a divorced family, I was the older brother and we had a sister Cheri in the middle.
[5]Dead End Follies detailed the song to be an "eerie ballad", while opining "its simplicity and spontaneity" to be "100% folk rock".
[8] During his solo concert at the Key Arena in Seattle on May 18, 2002, Jerry Cantrell said to the audience: "I'd like to do something for a good friend of ours who's no longer with us", and played Alice in Chains' song "Down in a Hole".