What an interesting team up! The surviving members of Soundgarden went into studio with singer Brandi Carlile to record new versions of “Black Hole Sun” and “Searching With My Good Eye Closed” to honour the late Chris Cornell on “Record Store Day”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The twins and I met in the late 90’s in a famous Seattle studio called London Bridge. The guy in the picture with me is Rick Parasher (RIP) and he introduced us. Soundgarden were just gods to us back then. Total pioneers and unreachable to us in every way. We went about making our demos and cleaning the studio when we couldn’t afford the bill never knowing that in November of 2019 we would go back to London Bridge and RECORD TWO SONGS WITH THEM!! @chriscornellofficial was as great as a human singer can get and now he’s an angel. Thank you Kim, Ben, and Matt. I’ll never forget this day for as long as I live…. stay tuned!! 🤘 @soundgarden @themattcameron #kimthayil #benshepherd @londonbridgestudio

A post shared by Brandi Carlile (@brandicarlile) on Nov 25, 2019 at 12:19pm PST

The tribute will be released as a 12-inch on September 26, which is the second of three “Record Store Drops” in 2020.

The songs were recorded at Seattle’s London Bridge Studio.

Carlile wrote about recording her early demos at that same studio, “Soundgarden were just gods to us back then. Total pioneers and unreachable to us in every way. We went about making our demos and cleaning the studio when we couldn’t afford the bill never knowing that in November of 2019 we would go back to London Bridge and RECORD TWO SONGS WITH THEM!!”

Can’t wait to hear these songs in full! What do you think about this team-up?

Written by Todd Hancock

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