Songbook

  • Release dateNovember 21, 2011
  • LabelUniversal Music Enterprises

Songbook is an acoustic live album by American musician and Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, released on November 21, 2011.[1] The live album features songs recorded during Cornell’s Songbook Tour, an acoustic solo tour which took place from March to May 2011 in the US and Canada, and is his first live album as a solo artist.

The songs on the tour varied in every show, and the album was recorded during various shows on the tour, and includes songs from Cornell’s whole career: solo material, Soundgarden songs, Audioslave songs, Temple of the Dog songs, as well as covers of Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You” and John Lennon’s “Imagine”.

The album debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 69. It has sold 86,000 copies in the US as of August 2015.