Though he found fame as a successor to classic howlers like Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey, Cornell dabbled widely over his career, taking up acoustic folk on his solo records and heavy funk with another supergroup, Audioslave, in which he teamed with dudes from Rage Against the Machine. In 2009 he made a gleaming synth-pop record with the hip-hop producer Timbaland; it was maligned back then, but in retrospect it seems almost to predict the blurred genre lines that define the streaming era.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times