Chris Cornell Announces NEW Solo Acoustic Album & Tour** Video Premiere of "The Keeper"
Gina Schulman
gina at pressherepublicity.com
Wed Sep 28 09:53:30 CDT 2011
Chris Cornell Announces Fall & Winter Dates for Songbook Solo Acoustic Tour
Songbook Album Out November 21st
New Song & Video for "The Keeper," written for the Film Machine Gun Preacher, Out Now
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New York, NY- September 28, 2011 -- 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 (UME) 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<http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bob-dylan/426084> and Robert Plant<http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/robert-plant/479962> 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<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL6Hif6HICE>. 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<http://new.music.yahoo.com/Chris-Cornell/videos/view/The-Keeper--221578551>.
WATCH:
Chris Cornell performing "The Keeper" on Late Show with David Letterman HERE<http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=6CIc2hw0WcYgTMB6S9TCJCTq3Pk_IuUQ>
Chris Cornell's appearance on Tavis Smiley HERE<http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/rock-musician-chris-cornell/?show=9540>
Chris Cornell performing "When I'm Down" acoustic HERE<http://www.chriscornell.com/player/default.aspx?meid=5643>
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.
Praise for Chris Cornell's Songbook shows:
"Cornell...carried the entire show with ease, demonstrating just how capable he is of commanding a stage all by himself. He was an absolute powerhouse, belting out songs with a voice that rocked the rafters." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Chris Cornell still possesses the best voice in rock music... this 'Songbook' is open and it's worth reading again and again because the author is one of the most important artists to ever walk the face of the earth." - ArtistDirect.com
"Sometimes you don't recognize the full power of a voice until you strip everything away from it. Such was the case with Chris Cornell's drop dead great show at Town Hall last night....the approach served to reveal both the full force, and the utter control, of his singing... as well as how rare his timbre remains." - New York Daily News
"The two-hour, nearly two-dozen-song performance was a master class in the fine art of solo performance... he wove tender folk-tinged ballads, hard-rock torch songs, and soaring anthems into a cohesive whole, telling a few tales in between, 'Storytellers'-style." - Boston Globe
"It was a powerful concert, gathering momentum and stoking more emotion as it progressed." - Boston Herald
Announced 2011 Songbook Tour Dates:
TUE 11/1/11 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall
WED 11/2/11 Nashville, TN War Memorial Auditorium
FRI 11/4/11 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
SAT 11/5/11 Tampa, FL Tampa Theatre
SUN 11/6/11 Miami Beach, FL Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
WED 11/9/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina Grand Rex Theatre
THU 11/10/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina Grand Rex Theatre
SAT 11/12/11 Santiago, Chile Maquinaria Festival
SUN 11/13/11 Sao Paulo, Brazil SWU Festival
THU 11/17/11 Albany, NY The Hart Theatre at the Egg
FRI 11/18/11 Ridgefield, CT The Ridgefield Playhouse
SAT 11/19/11 Torrington, CT Warner Theatre
MON 11/21/11 New York, NY Carnegie Hall
TUE 11/22/11 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
WED 11/23/11 Allentown, PA Symphony Hall
THU 11/25/11 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa- Music Box
FRI 11/26/11 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa- Music Box
TUE 11/29/11 Burlington, VT Flynn Center For The Performing Arts
WED 11/30/11 Poughkeepsie, NY Bardavon**
FRI 12/2/11 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
SAT 12/3/11 Lakewood, OH Lakewood Civic Center
SUN 12/4/11 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater
TUE 12/6/11 Kalamazoo, MI Kalamazoo State Theatre
WED 12/7/11 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
THU 12/8/11 Louisville, KY Brown Theatre
SAT 12/10/11 Salina, KS Steifel Theatre For The Performing Arts
TUE 12/13/11 Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center- Ikeda Theatre
THU 12/15/11 San Francisco, CA Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
FRI 12/16/11 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
SAT 12/17/11 San Diego, CA Balboa Theatre
**Tickets from April's cancelled Poughkeepsie show will be honored
For ticket on-sale information, as well as audio, visual and live updates on the Songbook series, go to www.chriscornell.com<http://www.chriscornell.com>,
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