Jerry Cantrell Reveals His Favorite Soundgarden Songs

Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell faces an impossible task: picking just three songs that define the legendary Soundgarden.

In this exclusive interview, the grunge icon reflects on the "undefinable" genius of Chris Cornell and his Soundgarden bandmates. Growing up in the same Seattle scene that changed rock history forever, Jerry Cantrell explains why Soundgarden never wrote a bad song — from "Hunted Down" and "Rusty Cage" to "Black Hole Sun."

Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell dives deep into the track that still gets him "in the short and curlies" — "The Day I Tried to Live" — and offers a moving tribute to his late friend Chris Cornell.

Interview Details:
– Speaker: Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains)
– Subject: Soundgarden & Chris Cornell
– Key Tracks: "The Day I Tried to Live," "Black Hole Sun," "Rusty Cage"

Timestamps:
0:00 The "Impossible" Question
0:32 Why Soundgarden is undefinable
1:10 From "Hunted Down" to "Black Hole Sun"
1:36 The song that hits Cantrell the hardest
2:01 The Seattle brotherhood & Chris Cornell’s legacy

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