Former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell [ tickets ] will hit the road this spring to drum up support for his forthcoming third solo album, which was produced by Timbaland.

The outing gets underway March 27 in Austin, TX, with Cornell hitting 17 cities on the trek, finishing things up April 18 in St. Paul, MN. Details are included below.

Originally scheduled for release in November, Cornell's third solo set, "Scream," is now set to surface March 10. The album, which follows 2007's "Carry On" and 1999's "Euphoria Morning," features production by Timbaland, who brought an R&B flavor to Cornell's typical hard-rock atmospherics, according to the singer.

"A lot of people were concerned about, like, am I gonna do what, for example, Timbaland tells me to do, if he wants to tell me to do something, that kind of thing," Cornell told The Pulse of Radio last fall. "We didn't really have that relationship, it wasn't that type of a process. It was more, he would bring in a beat, an idea, I would write to it and sing it, and we would move on kind of to the next thing."

Three songs from the forthcoming album--the title cut, "Ground Zero" and "Watch Out"--are currently available for download from both Amazon.com and the iTunes store. Fans can preview streaming samples of the tracks at Cornell's website.