Video Footage Of CHRIS CORNELL's New Haven Acoustic Concert

December 6, 2013

Fan-filmed video footage of SOUNDGARDEN frontman Chris Cornell's November 20 acoustic performance at Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut can be seen below.

Cornell was forced to cancel his solo acoustic concerts in Miami, Florida on Thursday (December 5) and St. Petersburg, Florida on Friday (December 6) after a shoulder injury he sustained last week got worse. Cornell scrapped a show in Delaware on November 27 after injuring himself, but returned to the tour in Atlanta on Tuesday (December 3). However, the injury worsened and on Wednesday (December 4) doctors advised complete rest for the singer.

There is no word on how exactly Cornell sustained his injury.

The Florida shows were the last on the current "Songbook" tour, which highlights tunes from throughout Cornell's career with SOUNDGARDEN, AUDIOSLAVE and as a solo artist.

Cornell told The Pulse Of Radio a while back how he first came up with the idea of doing acoustic gigs. "It came from all the way back as far as SOUNDGARDEN with a song called 'Mind Riot', where I would just start to do it alone," he said. "And what I noticed was dynamically it was really great in the middle of a set to give the audience a break from just the sonic pounding. And in AUDIOSLAVE I started having kind of like a four-, five-song interlude where I would just play acoustic guitar and sing. It was just so intimidating, but there was something about that, I guess, that I liked."

Cornell is not scheduled to perform live again until next spring, when he and SOUNDGARDEN will head to South America to appear on several Lollapalooza festival dates.

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