![]() The playlist is exceptionally well conceived, featuring stripped bare, emotionally piquant versions of his most famous former releases, including "Like A Stone" and the beautiful, brilliant "Black Hole Sun" as well as two perfectly pitched covers. And quite frankly, Cornell's voice could convince me of most things. It is proof that a voice can sell a song of any type, provided that voice in convincing and charismatic enough to carry a different agenda within the song than originally composed. Most importantly, for an artist who was somewhat cruelly criticised from some quarters about his decision to genre-hop for 2009's Scream (a critically lambasted relative failure, but underrated criminally in my opinion), the decision to strip back the famous songs is a statement outside of the concerns of genre. Cornell's voice has always been soaked in soul, as well as carrying an irresistible smokey edge that injected poignancy to even the most bold rock songs he lent it to in his former roles, and it has never sounded as good or as hard-hitting as when teamed up here with a simple guitar as company. Cornell takes up his acoustic guitar and leads the listener through sixteen careful chosen tracks with the engaging presence of a man completely at ease with his own abilities. Rating:5 As lead singer for Soundgarden and Audioslave, Chris Cornell carved out a reputation as one of the finest rock singers of his or any generation, and in Songbook, his brand new acoustic live solo album, he proves once again what that reputation was founded on. ![]()
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