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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready to perform Star-Spangled Banner before Western Conference Championship

Mike McCready is coming back to CenturyLink Field.

The Seattle Sounders announced Thursday that the longtime Pearl Jam guitarist and Seattle native will perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the first leg of the Western Conference Championship at CenturyLink Field on Tuesday, Nov. 22 (7 p.m. PT; FS1/KIRO 97.3 FM/EL Rey 1360AM).

McCready has performed the national anthem before Sounders games twice in the past – before the second leg of the 2014 Western Conference Semifinals against FC Dallas and again before the regular season finale against Real Salt Lake last season.

A graduate of Seattle’s Roosevelt High School, McCready was one of the founding members of Pearl Jam when the band first came together in Seattle in 1990.