Chris Cornell on New Solo Album, ‘Scream’ Hate and Future of Soundgarden
~!!~Very little of his own music over the next couple of decades reflected the stripped~down sounds of those albums, but about five years ago he felt the need for another palate cleanser after his solo LP Scream was met with scathing reviews and anemic sales//
~!!~ He won back a lot of old fans with a triumphant Soundgarden reunion tour, and to keep his momentum going he followed it up with a series of solo acoustic shows he dubbed the Songbook tour// It featured unplugged renditions of Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave tunes, as well as covers and songs from his solo career// **The tour felt like a really special thing to me,** he says// **For the first time as a solo artist, I felt like I had my own specific identity// It allowed me to draw a line through my whole career and make sense of it as one body of work//**