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Chris Cornell, covering Patience, the Guns and Rosa song.

We first heard that on July 20, 2020, the day that would have been Chris's 56th birthday.

And then it was included on a posthumous album of cover versions released on

December 11th of that year. It was called No One Sings Like You Anymore, Volume 1, which you may

recognize as a line from the Sound Garden song Black Hole Sun. It collected Chris singing material by

Janice Joplin and John Lennon, Yellow, Prince, and Moore. He loved playing covers. Chris had been working on these

recordings for a couple of years and had been planning to release it as a solo project, but of

course, he never got to see that happen. When it did come out, it was during the bad days of the

pandemic. And hearing these songs, knowing that Chris was no longer with us, kind of added to the mood of

the whole world at that time. If you knew about that album at all, because it kind of snucking

under the radar just before Christmas when things were pretty bleak and everybody was in

lockdown. So if that record escaped your attention, you're forgiven. We had other things

going on. Hello again, I'm Alan Cross, and because Chris is still very much part

of the rock scene, songs from Soundgarden and audio slave are not going away anytime soon.

I thought it was time to look back at his career and highlight ten things that were special about

the man and or things that you might not have known about Chris. This also gives us an excuse to play some songs from Chris's career.

So we'll count that posthumous record as interesting item number one.

So let's move on to interesting thing number two.

He got some very early breaks in the music business because he worked in a kitchen.

In the very early 80s, long before Soundgarden was a thing,

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