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Chris Cornell is a posthumous compilation album by American musician Chris Cornell, released on November 16, 2018. It compiles his solo work, as well as his work with his bands Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, and Audioslave, and includes a new song titled "When Bad Does Good". The album was released in a variety of versions, including standard and deluxe versions in both digital (download and streaming) and physical formats (CD and vinyl), and a super deluxe box set that includes a total of 64 tracks, including 11 unreleased songs.[1]
Background
In a statement, Cornell's wife Vicky said that she felt "we needed to create a special collection to represent all of him – the friend, husband and father, the risk taker and innovator, the poet and artist. His soaring vocals found their way into the hearts and souls of so many. His voice was his vision and his words were his peace. This album is for his fans."[2] The album was contributed to many of Cornell's friends, including being produced by Brendan O'Brien, with Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam creating the artwork.[2]
Everett True of Classic Rock rated the album four stars out of five, acclaiming Cornell's "killer acoustic versions", including Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", which he called "throbbing with restrained power", but called his covers of John Lennon's "Imagine" and the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" "ill-advised", as well as "mawkish" and a "perfunctory run-through", respectively. True felt that while "a majority of this collection is given over to Soundgarden", it is still "Cornell's voice that wins through – a star-burst of a scream, a full-throated delight."[3]