CHRIS CORNELL: SONGBOOK Live Album (2011)

Songbook is an acoustic live album by 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 from March to May 2011 in the US and Canada, 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.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 69. It has sold 86,000 copies in the US as of August 2015. 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 had 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.

Tracklist:

1. As Hope and Promise Fade Chris Cornell, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2. Scar on the Sky Cornell 4/10/11 at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania
3. Call Me a Dog (Temple of the Dog song) Cornell 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4. Ground Zero Cornell, James Washington 4/22/11 at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Illinois
5. Can’t Change Me Cornell 4/15/11 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey
6. I Am the Highway (Audioslave song) 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7. Thank You (Led Zeppelin cover) 4/27/11 at the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
8. Cleaning My Gun Cornell 4/23/11 at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
9. Wide Awake (Audioslave song) 4/17/11 at the Sixth I Historic Synagogue in Washington DC
10. Fell on Black Days (Soundgarden song) Cornell 4/10/11 at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania
11. All Night Thing (Temple of the Dog song) Cornell 4/17/11 at the Sixth I Historic Synagogue in Washington DC
12. Doesn’t Remind Me (Audioslave song) Cornell, Morello, Commerford, Wilk 4/24/11 at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota
13. Like a Stone (Audioslave song) Cornell, Morello, Commerford, Wilk 4/20/11 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14. Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden song) Cornell 4/30/11 at the Red Robinson Show Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
15. Imagine (John Lennon cover) 4/23/11 at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
16. The Keeper – Cornell studio track
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17. As Hope and Promise Fade Cornell, Harmon, Mayer, Mosley 4/15/11 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey
18. Call Me a Dog (Temple of the Dog song) Cornell 4/10/11 at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania

Chris Cornell (July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017).