Listen to 2 New Chris Cornell Songs Performed Live

Soundgarden front man, Chris Cornell, is prepping a Songbook album and accompanying Songbook acoustic tour. Meanwhile I am preparing dinner, which is Kraft dinner, yet again. Songbook is out on November 21, and features 15 songs.

The “Songbook” album includes the mix of Soundgarden (“Fell On Black Days,” ” “Black Hole Sun”), Audioslave (“Wide Awake,” “I Am the Highway,” “Doesn’t Remind Me”), Temple of the Dog (“Call Me a Dog”) and Cornell solo songs (“Scar On The Sky,” “Ground Zero”) that he performs at the shows, as well as versions of John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You,” drawn from the wide array of covers he’s done (via Billboard).

Soundgarden is also close to finishing its first studio album since forever 1996, and it should be out next spring.

“It’s mostly done,” Cornell reports. “We just need to finish a couple of songs and mix it, so that will be happening probably over the holidays.” As to what it sounds like, he says that, “It’s certainly not nostalgic. It’s definitely forward. It sounds to me exactly like it should sound — like we took a break and we got together and we’re making an album. I don’t think we’ve taken any dramatic new approaches to writing or recording, and yet there’s definitely changes. We’ve all had a decade-plus of more experience in writing and recording and took a long break… So it’s very refreshing and it feels to me like the next logical step in Soundgarden, creatively.”

In the meantime, you can listen to 2 songs off of Songbook, performed live by Chris Cornell. There’s also a couple of Audioslave songs thrown in there. Check out: 1) Scar on the Sky, 2) As Hope and Promise Fade, 3) I Am the Highway, and 4) Like a Stone