When GRAMMY-winning, GOLDEN GLOBE® nominated singer/songwriter and rock icon Chris
Cornell was about to release his 1999 solo debut on Interscope/A&M/Geffen
Records, he was dissuaded from his first choice for the title, Euphoria
Mourning, and reluctantly dubbed it Euphoria Morning. Now, 16 years
later, Universal Music Enterprises is correcting that admitted misjudgment,
re-releasing the re-mastered album under its original name on August 14, for
the first time on vinyl as well as reissuing digitally and on CD. Euphoria Mourning will be
pressed on 180 gram vinyl and include a download card
featuring 320 kbps MP4 audio ripped directly from the vinyl.
“The title of the record has been restored to its
original spelling,” notes Cornell. “Which was changed before release after I
listened to some bad advice.”
His first release outside of his work as lead singer with
Soundgarden, Euphoria Morning, as it was then called, was a
collaboration with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven, who
appeared on the album, co-wrote five of the tracks and were credited as
co-producers, engineers and mixers with Cornell. The album’s first
single, “Can’t Change Me,” was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
at the 2000 GRAMMY® Awards. “Flutter Girl” was reportedly an outtake from Soundgarden’s
1994 album, Superunknown, while Cornell revealed later on during a 2007 solo
tour that “Wave Goodbye” was written as a tribute to Jeff Buckley, who
tragically drowned in Memphis in 1997. “Can’t Change Me,” the first
single, peaked at #5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and
#7 on the Modern Rock Tracks tally.
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