Does grunge icon Chris Cornell harbor secret fantasies of being a quiet folkie a la Elliott Smith? Cornell says his first post- Soundgarden solo album following the band’s amicable 1997 split will be "singer/songwriter- oriented". My voice is stripped down and up- front. It’s not a big rock record. Everyone’s going to be surprised." What he really means is: It won’t be like Soundgarden, okay? The as-yet-untitled album, due out this spring, was recorded at the Los Angeles home studio of Alain Johannes and Natasha Schneider (of the band Eleven), who share playing and production duties with Cornell; his backing band includes ex- Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron. Cornell is vague about the lyrics, but offers that they are both introspective and retrospective. "You can make things up for a long time," he says, "but at some point you’ve got to write about yourself: relationships, losing people in your life, pausing and looking back."

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