Chords for Chris Cornell Walmart Soundcheck Interview

_ _ _ [C] _ _ The name of the new album is Songbook Live because it was taken from the first songbook
[Am] tour that I ever did which is all acoustic, it's just me and a guitar, one [C] man show.
[Am] And somewhere in the middle of it I just felt like [D] there was something magical happening,
[F] particularly with the audience.
It just felt like it was an intimate environment that I'd never [C] been able to create [F] consistently
night after night.
So we had been [G] recording most of the show [E] so I decided it would be a good idea to [G] find
some songs [F] and [C] put it out for the fans live.
[G] _ [Am] _ _ [Em] I went through, [F] god I don't know, [C] 12 or [F] somewhere between 12 and 20 entire shows [G] which are two
and a half hours long, [Eb]
so multiples of [Gb] like the same song over and over again and [A] there
was no other way to do [Gb] it than just listen to every [F] performance all the way [Am] through.
Sometimes there were [F] technical problems that we didn't know [D] about during the recording,
sometimes one performance was just not as good as [Dm] another one.
Just kind of kept narrowing it down, narrowing it [Em] down until I [D] decided what it should be. _
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[Am] _ Songbook tour I guess started with [Dm] the idea a few years back [C] when I did _ _ about an hour
and ten minute all acoustic show in Stockholm, [G] Sweden and it was recorded and I [F] didn't know
it was recorded and when I got back from Europe _ they were playing some of the songs on the
radio and [Bb] ever since [D] probably 1990 when I did [C] the song Seasons for _ [Am] Cameron Crowe's movie
Singles I'd had fans sort of assuming at some point I would [G] do an all acoustic record or
something that was essentially as stripped down as that.
[Cm] So it was an idea that had kind of been [Gm] in play for a long time.
I did a couple of shows in the LA area _ [G] acoustically but they were spread out over the course [Am] of
a year or two and [F] it wasn't the same as just going out and [G] doing [D] an entire tour and really
actually kind of figuring out [Dm] what that is and what that [Am] means to me because I'd never done it.
I've [G] always been in a [D] really loud aggressive rock band which is [C] the opposite.
So at some [Am] point I decided I just [F] wanted to not do warm ups [E] just go do it for real [Dm] and
[Am] had such a great time [G] and _ [E] the audience responded so well to it that I just [F] wanted to kind of
continue to do it.
Went to Australia, South America, [Cm] back in the US, did some [Gm] Canadian dates, several [Bb] and
hopefully we'll [D] take it to Europe.
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_ _ _ The Turntable came [E] into play when [Am] I was [C] looking at different songs that I felt like I [E] _ [Fm] wouldn't
be able to represent that well [C] necessarily with just an acoustic guitar and it's something
that's still [E] kind of developing.
I'm still figuring [C] out songs that I can press.
Although the Turntable's [G] electronic and it doesn't really [Bb] look old timey, _ it [E] definitely
has that feel.
I mean [C] they're [Em] real albums pressed for this purpose and you hear it and it sounds [F] like an album.
And it's [Fm] something that I'll do more of [Am] I think because there's other songs [C] that I can
represent better that way than just [D] trying to play it on an acoustic guitar and sing it.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Ab] Soundgarden's been writing and recording for a [G] new album [C] starting I guess maybe like eight months [Gm] ago.
We're kind of [Ab] in the final [G] stages really.
_ [C] We're just [G] finishing up a couple of songs, a little [Ab] bit more to do and mixing and [G] then
narrowing down what we want to release and [Em] that's it.
And it's been great.
It's been a Soundgarden [Am] production really with the [G] co-producer Adam [Gb] Kasper that worked
with us on our [E] last album and everybody's in there all [Am] the time _ and [Em] it just feels like
in a sense like we're [Gb] picking up where we left off.
[Em] _ [Am] With the exception of there's a feeling of [Gb] freshness because we had 14 years off or so
but it feels [Em] more like about [B] five to me.
It just feels like we had a long break.
We did [Em] do one album, our SST album, Ultramega OK.
We recorded most of it in _ _ a little town outside of Portland, Oregon.
And then we recorded some [E] drum tracks for Bad Motor Finger [Em] in Sausalito but other than
that everything we've ever done is [Am] in Seattle.
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ Someone early on I [Am] think in my career with [Gb] Soundgarden that was [A] an unlikely person that
inspired me was Tom Waits.
And _ [E] lyrically I could feel like that inspiration showed [Am] up starting around Bad Motor Finger.
Musically I don't know that it ever [A] really did _ but to me what [Ab] was important [E] and still
is [Em] having just [Am] bought his latest record and listened to it and still feel like he's growing
artistically [Em] _
that someone can have a really [Am] really long career and always still be _ redefining
who they [Gb] are artistically [G] and what they do and always being vital and never necessarily
having a career where they [E] feel like they're looking back into one specific sunny period
a couple of decades [B] before and kind of revolving [Eb] around that.
That [Em] _ thought terrified me by the time I was [F] 22 years old.
I was already [C] looking ahead imagining that whatever it is [A] that I'm doing that's critically
accepted [Am] will someday be [F] considered old and in a sense no matter how much [C] fans love it
or I love [Dm] it it will [Am] feel [Bb] nostalgic if [Am] I'm not moving forward and trying [Gm] and doing new things.
There [C] are only a handful of people that I can look at that had some period of like [Am] super
culturally relevant vitality and [F] then managed to kind of keep some spark of [D] new inspiration
just kind of constantly throughout.
_ [Am] Because that's what's exciting about [G] music that's what's fun about it.
It's not about [A] figuring out what people like it's [C] about figuring out what's possible in [Am] music
and then you're just hoping to [F] God people like it. _
[D] _ _ _ _ [F] Well you know [Am]
the album very much [D] is just something that [Dm] I want to give back to the fans
that supported the [Am] tour and that still do.
[G] And _ [D] _
that's why I put it [E] out there _ [D] and I'm just happy that [E] a lot of people have responded
so positively to both.
So thank you. _ _
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