This song was originally written for Temple of the Dog. It was a band which released only one self-titled record in 1991. This album was tribute to Andrew Wood, singer of Mother Love Bone, who died of drug-overdose. Chris Cornell, good friend of Andrew Wood, who was already in Soundgarden asked former Mother Love Bone members to form Temple of the Dog. They also took Mike McCready to be a lead guitarist and Eddie Vedder to sing backing vocals. This band was in fact start of Pearl Jam - former Mother Love Bone members plus McCready and Vedder formed later Pearl Jam that celebrated their 20th anniversary with great documentary movie Pearl Jam 20 this year. I highly recommend you to watch this movie.
Anyway, "Call Me a Dog" is my favorite song from this record. It is even better performed by Chris Cornell only. He actually released acoustic record this year called Songbook, which also features this song.
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