Chris Cornell Releases The Music Video For 'The Keeper'

Frontman for Grammy Award winning band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, has just released the music video for The Keeper. This is the latest song he has written for the feature film Machine Gun Preacher. The movie in theatres now (in the US), is based on the life of a former drug dealer, Sam Childers, whose life suddenly takes an about face and leads him to East Africa. Saddened and horrified with what he finds there, he is absolutely shocked by the turmoil in Sudan and he becomes one of the leaders of hope for the many refugee children left to fend for themselves. Unable to accept the fate of the hordes of children and adults desperately trying to flee the country and brutality of the "Lord's Resistance Army", Sam Childers does his bit to bring some improvement to their lives. In doing so, he betters his own life.

Chris Cornell's song, "The Keeper", is reminiscent of some of the great singers in the music industry. Of this song, Artist Direct made the comment, "Cornell manages to channel Bob Dylan and Robert Plant all at once in one of the best songs of his own catalog."

The music video shows Chris Cornell performing the song on stage in front of a large screen showing excerpts from the movie Machine Gun Preacher. The movie trailer shows sections of Sudan in which refugees are living in appalling conditions at the mercy of nature and the army, as the "keeper" tries to bring some hope back into people's lives. In front of the horrors of civil war, Chris Cornell sings, "For you I remain /though I'm not worthy of /being the keeper of the flame / I am the keeper."

It is a very sobering music video.

Recently, Chris Cornell talked with KOvideo and his immediate plans for the rest of this year. The full interview is shown at Chris Cornell talks with KOvideo.

Chris Cornell - "The Keeper"