SOUNDGARDEN's CHRIS CORNELL Performs With ZAC BROWN BAND On 'Saturday Night Live' (Video)

SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell joined country rockers the ZAC BROWN BAND during their appearance last night on NBC‘s long-running sketch comedy “Saturday Night Live” to perform the song “Heavy Is The Head”. Video footage of the performance can be seen below.

The studio version of “Heavy Is The Head”, featuring a guest appearance by Cornell, can be found on ZAC BROWN BAND‘s forthcoming album, titled “Jekyll + Hyde”, which will arrive on April 29. This is the second time that Brown has collaborated with an artist associated with the Seattle rock scene: in 2013, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl produced a four-song EP for the band called “The Grohl Sessions: Vol. 1”.

“Jekyll + Hyde” will be ZAC BROWN BAND‘s album first as part of a new partnership between Zac‘s Southern Ground Records, fashion designer John Varvatos and Big Machine Records/Republic Records.

Cornell revealed via Twitter in January that he had just begun recording a new solo album. Cornell‘s last solo studio effort, 2009’s “Scream”, was an ill-advised attempt at urban pop produced by Timbaland. The album was received negatively by critics and fans, with NINE INCH NAILS frontman Trent Reznor calling Cornell‘s attempted makeover as a pop singer “embarrassing.”

Cornell‘s last all-new full length album of any kind was SOUNDGARDEN‘s sixth studio outing, “King Animal”, which came out in 2012 and ended a 16-year gap between releases for the band, who broke up in 1997 and reunited in 2010.

SOUNDGARDEN released a three-disc collection of B-sides and rarities called “Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path” late last year.

SOUNDGARDEN plans to reconvene in the studio later in the year and begin working on a follow-up to its 2012 album, “King Animal”.