“I suppose that’ll be sort of an ongoing process as I’m out on the road, sitting around learning other people’s songs just for fun, thinking about, ‘If I’m going to Minneapolis, who’s from Minneapolis that I can cover tonight?’ “ “In that case it’s kind of anything I want,” he says. The initial ‘Spoonman’ demo I did at home with an acoustic guitar, and yet it doesn’t really work as an acoustic song.” He’ll also plug some covers into the shows. “And there’s this kind of thought that’s always followed me, which was, ‘How much of a musician are you, really, if you can’t just walk into a room, pick up and instrument and entertain people by yourself, playing some songs?’ I guess that’s always haunted me because I was always in a very aggressive band with a lot of volume.”Ĭornell’s Songbook tour repertoire will encompass material from his bands and solo albums, though he notes that “there’s many, many songs that just don’t really translate to an acoustic performance at all. “You get, in a sense, addicted to that feeling…of when it actually works and people liked it and you’ve actually done something a little daring,” he explains. “I guess there was something about that I liked.” He acknowledges that the prospect of a full-scale show is “intimidating,” however, but he also finds the prospect exciting. “It gave the audience a break from the sonic assault,” he recalls. Cornell performed some acoustic shows during the 80s and played solo acoustic segments in concert with Soundgarden and Audioslave.
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