Cornell broke open his entire catalog, doing the requisite hits from Soundgarden (“Black Hole Sun,” “Fell On Black Days”) and Audioslave (“Doesn’t Remind Me,” “I Am the Highway”), along with a surprising amount of Temple of the Dog tracks, at three, including a stunning take on “Call Me a Dog.” His solo catalog was represented as well, with tracks from his new album Higher Truth blending seamlessly with “Seasons” and “Sunshower” from the Singles and Great Expectations soundtracks respectively.īut it was the covers that shone most brightly. When it came to the songs, nothing was off the table. We all have between one and four percent, and Cornell was concerned that he’d be right at the latter. There was one particularly hilarious gag he kept coming back to regarding a trip to a genealogy clinic (where he met Gibson), recounting a last minute decision to back out of the process because he didn’t want to find out the percentage of Neanderthal he had running through him. Notoriously reticent during his first go round with Soundgarden, he’s downright jovial with a constant barrage of between song stories, jokes and poking fun at himself. Most striking is how laid back Cornell is these days. Occasionally he’ll bring out Bryan Gibson, who serves as a solid foil to Cornell’s self-deprecation, to accent the proceedings on mandolin or cello, but for the most part, it’s a solo effort. Wednesday night at the sold out Shubert Theater in Boston, the singer did one of his intimate “Songbook” performances, where he gets up there with not much more than a stool, microphone, coat rack (yes, coat rack), record player and a bevy of acoustic guitars and plays a bunch of his own compositions and some of his favorite tracks by other artists. The grunge elder statesman has been through the trenches of stardom, battled his demons, and come out on the other side intact while many of his peers ended up deep-sixed either literally or, at the very least, career-wise. At this point, when it comes to performing Chris Cornell can do pretty much whatever the hell he wants.
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