Safe to say the record was inspired by the Songbook project? “ Higher Truth was written to make the Songbook tours a living, breathing thing,” he says, “instead of a nostalgic look back at my history.” That record alienated many longtime fans, so this time Cornell decided to give listeners something less experimental. It’s a significant changeup from Cornell’s last solo studio effort, 2009’s Scream, a collection of R&B jams helmed by hip-hop innovator Timbaland. Handling all the writing and arranging and much of the instrumentation, Cornell made Higher Truth with producer Brendan O’Brien, best known for his work with Pearl Jam. It’s the summer home to my winter Soundgarden.” “I started to realize this was something that really works for me,” says Cornell about the no-frills format he chose for the new record. The live album Songbook, featuring songs recorded during the tour, was released later that year. His fourth studio album, Higher Truth, is a stripped-down singer-songwriter set inspired by his 2011 Songbook Tour, when he roamed the world with an acoustic guitar playing solo songs and Soundgarden classics-as well as tunes he wrote for the supergroups Temple of the Dog and Audioslave. The band makes genre-pushing hard rock revered by punk fans and metalheads alike, and with albums like the 1994 blockbuster Superunknown, the quartet has pushed its big, artsy sound into the mainstream.Īs a solo artist, Cornell has always taken a more varied approach. When he plays with Soundgarden, the seminal Seattle alt-rock outfit he formed in 1984, Chris Cornell knows pretty much where things stand. Photo Credit: Carlos Ramos CHRIS CORNELL Going solo means going acoustic for the Soundgarden frontman
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