Songbook (Chris Cornell album)

Songbook
Live album by Chris Cornell
Released November 21, 2011
Recorded March–May 2011
Genre Acoustic, alternative rock
Label UMe
Chris Cornell chronology
Part of Me Remix EP
(2009)		 Songbook
(2011)
Singles from Songbook
  1. "The Keeper"

Songbook is an acoustic live album by American musician and Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, released on November 21, 2011. The live album features songs recorded during Cornell's Songbook Tour, an acoustic solo tour which took place during March–May 2011 in the US, and is his first live album as a solo artist.

The songs on the tour varied in every show, and the album was recorded during various shows on the tour, and includes songs from Cornell's whole career: solo material, Soundgarden songs, Audioslave songs, Temple of the Dog songs, as well as covers of Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" and John Lennon's "Imagine".

Song Information

The album includes a new song by Chris Cornell, entitled "The Keeper", the song was written exclusively for the Marc Forster directed 2011 film Machine Gun Preacher, and released as the lead track from the film's soundtrack in August 2011. Another new song on the album is "Cleaning My Gun", a song Cornell has been playing live during his acoustic shows for years but was never previously released on an album.

The first track on the album "As Hope and Promise Fade", was previously released as a hidden track on Cornell's third solo album Scream, under the title "Two Drink Minimum".

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Recording Date / Location Length
1. "As Hope and Promise Fade"   Chris Cornell 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3:47
2. "Scar on the Sky"   Cornell 4/10/11 at the at Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania 3:40
3. "Call Me a Dog" (Temple of the Dog cover) Cornell 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4:51
4. "Ground Zero"   Cornell, James Washington 4/22/11 at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Illinois 2:58
5. "Can't Change Me"   Cornell 4/15/11 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey 4:18
6. "I Am the Highway" (Audioslave cover) Cornell, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4:56
7. "Thank You" (Led Zeppelin cover) Jimmy Page, Robert Plant 4/27/11 at the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada 4:48
8. "Cleaning My Gun"   Cornell 4/23/11 at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 5:18
9. "Wide Awake" (Audioslave cover) Cornell, Morello, Commerford, Wilk 4/17/11 at the Sixth I Historic Synagogue in Washington DC 3:33
10. "Fell on Black Days" (Soundgarden cover) Cornell 4/10/11 at the at Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania 5:05
11. "All Night Thing" (Temple of the Dog cover) Cornell 4/17/11 at the Sixth I Historic Synagogue in Washington DC 3:25
12. "Doesn't Remind Me" (Audioslave cover) Cornell, Morello, Commerford, Wilk 4/24/11 at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota 4:08
13. "Like a Stone" (Audioslave cover) Cornell, Morello, Commerford, Wilk 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4:04
14. "Black Hole Sun" (Soundgarden cover) Cornell 4/30/11 at the Red Robinson Show Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 4:37
15. "Imagine" (John Lennon cover) John Lennon 4/23/11 at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 4:06
16. "The Keeper"   Cornell studio track 3:59

References

Chris Cornell
Studio albums
Euphoria Morning · Carry On · Scream  · Songbook
EPs
Compilations
Singles
"Seasons" · "Sunshower" · "Can't Change Me" · "Preaching the End of the World" · "You Know My Name" · "No Such Thing" · "Arms Around Your Love" · "She'll Never Be Your Man" · "Long Gone" · "Watch Out" · "Ground Zero" · "Scream" · "Part of Me" · "Stop Me" · "The Keeper"
Bands
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