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Chris Cornell Announces Autumn & Winter Dates for Songbook Solo Acoustic Tour - Songbook Album Due Out November 21st
New song & Video for “The Keeper,” written for the Film Machine Gun Preacher, Out Now
After a sold-out spring tour this year, Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter, Chris Cornell, has announced fall and winter tour dates for the second run of his acoustic Songbook tour. He will be making stops across the country including the Jackie Gleason Theatre in Miami, FL, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the Orpheum in Los Angeles. These intimate shows highlight the songs Cornell has written throughout his illustrious career and are made up of entirely acoustic, solo performances. An album of live Songbook tour performances will be released on November 21st (through UME in the US and USM internationally) featuring songs written by Cornell as well as a few covers. Full track listing is below. All fans who purchase their Songbook tour tickets online will receive a digital copy of the album with each transaction. In addition to being one of the most acclaimed voices in rock, he stands in a class of his own as a songwriter whose works have reached limitless audiences, the world over. Familiar songs emerge in a new context, showing that great songwriting translates to any idiom.
Songbook Full Track Listing:
1. As Hope and Promise Fade
2. Scar On The Sky
3. Call Me A Dog
4. Ground Zero
5. Can't Change Me
6. I Am The Highway
7. Thank You (Led Zeppelin)
8. Cleaning My Gun
9. Wide Awake
10. Fell On Black Days
11. All Night Thing
12. Doesn't Remind Me
13. Like A Stone
14. Black Hole Sun
15. Imagine (John Lennon)
16. The Keeper
Recently, Cornell wrote and performed “The Keeper,” the poignant original song for Relativity’s feature film Machine Gun Preacher (directed by Marc Forster) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month. Artist Direct said of the song, “Cornell manages to channel Bob Dylan and Robert Plant all at once in one of the best songs of his own catalog.” The film stars Gerard Butler and is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who finds faith leading him on a path to help the children of East Africa. The song is available via iTunes and a portion of the proceeds will go to Childers’ charity, Angels of East Africa. Give “The Keeper” a listen HERE. After performing the song on The Late Show with David Letterman and making an appearance on PBS’ Tavis Smiley, don’t miss him performing “The Keeper” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on October 12th. The Machine Gun Preacher soundtrack is out now and the film is playing in select theaters.
Check out the video for “The Keeper,” which premiered on Yahoo! HERE.
WATCH:
Chris Cornell performing “The Keeper” on Late Show with David Letterman HERE.
Chris Cornell’s appearance on Tavis Smiley HERE.
Chris Cornell performing “When I’m Down” acoustic HERE.
Chris Cornell has been heralded as one of the pioneers of the grunge era for writing a string of hits for Soundgarden, including the Grammy award-winning “Black Hole Sun” and “Spoonman.” In 1991, Chris formed Temple of the Dog, writing the classic song “Hunger Strike” featuring a duet with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. In 2000, Cornell joined former Rage Against the Machine members (Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk) in Audioslave and wrote a series of the band’s hits including “Like a Stone,” “Be Yourself” and “Doesn’t Remind Me.” Cornell’s career as a songwriter for film has included such songs as “Can’t Change Me,” and “Mission”, from the soundtrack to Mission Impossible II as well as hit theme song “You Know My Name” for James Bond thriller Casino Royale, one of the most successful installments of the spy franchise to date. His songs have been recorded by diverse artists from Johnny Cash to Alice Cooper.
Announced 2011 Songbook Tour Dates:
11/1/11 - Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
11/2/11 - Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium
11/4/11 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
11/5/11 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Theatre
11/6/11 - Miami Beach, FL - Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
11/9/11 - Buenos Aires - Argentina Grand Rex Theatre
11/10/11 - Buenos Aires - Argentina Grand Rex Theatre
11/12/11 - Santiago, Chile- Maquinaria Festival
11/13/11 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - SWU Festival
11/17/11 - Albany, NY - The Hart Theatre at the Egg
11/18/11 - Ridgefield, CT - The Ridgefield Playhouse
11/19/11 - Torrington, CT - Warner Theatre
11/21/11 - New York, NY - Carnegie Hall
11/22/11 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theatre
11/23/11 - Allentown, PA - Symphony Hall
11/25/11 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa- Music Box
11/26/11 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa- Music Box
11/29/11 - Burlington, VT - Flynn Center For The Performing Arts
11/30/11 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Bardavon**
12/2/11 - Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
12/3/11 - Lakewood, OH - Lakewood Civic Center
12/4/11 - Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
12/6/11 - Kalamazoo, MI - Kalamazoo State Theatre
12/7/11- Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
12/8/11 - Louisville, KY - Brown Theatre
12/10/11 - Salina, KS - Steifel Theatre For The Performing Arts
12/13/11 - Mesa, AZ - Mesa Arts Center- Ikeda Theatre
12/15/11 - San Francisco, CA - Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
12/17/11 - San Diego, CA - Balboa Theatre
**Tickets from April’s cancelled Poughkeepsie show will be honored
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