Chris Cornell's previous solo album Carry On was on its way to being a footnote until it was rescued from obscurity by American Idol champ David Cook, who performed Cornell's version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" to great acclaim on the show. That melding of rock and R&B informs the onetime Audioslave frontman's new Timbaland-produced album, which was cut in a rapid-fire six-week studio run. "He's somebody who's a musical genius and records in very unorthodox ways," Timbaland has said of his latest collaborator's sessions, which resulted in songs that sound more like Gnarls Barkley than Temple of the Dog.

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