Editing Jerry Cantrell

{{short description|American guitarist, singer and songwriter}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Jerry Cantrell
| image             = 2019 RiP Alice in Chains - Jerry Cantrell - by 2eight - 8SC0327.jpg
| caption           = Cantrell in 2019
| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.<ref name="studio book">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YmocmZU2eJcC&q=jerry+fulton+cantrell |title=Alice in Chains: In the Studio |last=Brown |first=Jake |date=Jul 1, 2010 |publisher=SCB Distributors |access-date=July 2, 2018|isbn=9780983471646 }}</ref>
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1966|3|18}}<ref name="birthday">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/269245/march-18-2009 |title=March 18, 2009 |date=March 18, 2009 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref>
| birth_place       = [[Tacoma, Washington]], U.S.
| alias             = 
| genre             = {{flatlist|
*[[Alternative metal]]<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-plot-headlining-north-american-tour-20160509 | title=Alice in Chains Plot Headlining North American Tour | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=May 9, 2016 | access-date=August 8, 2016 | author=Reed, Ryan | archive-date=August 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820115204/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-plot-headlining-north-american-tour-20160509 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[grunge]]<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.spin.com/2013/05/alice-in-chains-reddit-ask-me-anything-advice/ | title=Alice in Chains' Advice to Young Bands: 'Quit Now' | magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | date=May 28, 2013 | access-date=March 23, 2015 | author=McGovern, Kyle}}</ref>
*[[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jerry-cantrell-mn0000323194/biography|title=Jerry Cantrell - Music Biography, Credits and Discography|first=Greg|last=Prato|work=Allmusic|access-date=November 24, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/05/13/16-jerry-cantrell-alice-in-chains/|title=The Top 25 Modern Metal Guitarists #16: Jerry Cantrell|publisher=[[MetalSucks]]|access-date=May 23, 2017|date=May 13, 2011}}</ref>
*[[doom metal]] 
*[[sludge metal]]
*[[hard rock]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Annie |last=Zaleski |url=https://www.avclub.com/alice-in-chains-the-devil-put-dinosaurs-here-1798176914 |title=Alice in Chains. ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'' |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=May 28, 2013 |date=May 28, 2013 |archive-date=June 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607090756/http://www.avclub.com/articles/alice-in-chains-the-devil-put-dinosaurs-here%2C98185/ |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="Pop matters review">{{cite web |title=Godsmack – The Other Side |author=Begrand, Adrien |publisher=Popmatters.com |date=March 16, 2006 |url=http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/g/godsmack-otherside.shtml |access-date=November 17, 2007}}</ref>
}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Musician|singer|songwriter}}
| instrument        = {{hlist|Guitar|vocals}}
| current_member_of = [[Alice in Chains]]
| past_member_of    = {{hlist|Diamond Lie|Gypsy Rose|[[Ozzy Osbourne]]|Cardboard Vampyres}}
| website           = {{URL|https://jerrycantrell.com/}}
| label             = {{hlist|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]|[[Roadrunner Records|Roadrunner]]|[[BMG Rights Management|BMG]]}}
| years_active      = 1985–present
}}
'''Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.''' (born March 18, 1966)<ref name="studio book"/> is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Malley Greenburg |first=Zack |date=February 7, 2022 |title=Alice In Chains Members Sell Catalog to Round Hill for $50 Million |url=https://variety.com/2022/music/news/alice-in-chains-sells-catalog-round-hill-1235168310/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |quote=[...] Alice in Chains compositions by Cantrell — the group’s main songwriter over the course of its entire career}}</ref> of the rock band [[Alice in Chains]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parales |first1=Jon |title=Dancing Around Death, With Elephant in Room |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/arts/music/12alice.html |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 11, 2010 }}</ref> The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during [[Seattle]]'s [[grunge]] movement and is known for its distinctive vocal style<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/how-alice-in-chains-found-the-most-memorable-voice-in-grunge/255469/|title=How Alice in Chains Found the Most Memorable Voice in Grunge|magazine=The Atlantic|date=5 April 2012|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref> and the [[vocal harmony|harmonized]] vocals between Cantrell and [[Layne Staley]] (and later Cantrell and [[William DuVall]]). Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains' 1992 EP ''[[Sap (EP)|Sap]]''. After Staley's death in 2002, Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains' lead singer on most of the songs from the band's post-Staley albums, ''[[Black Gives Way to Blue]]'' (2009), ''[[The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here]]'' (2013), and ''[[Rainier Fog]]'' (2018), with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and singing Staley's vocals in the old songs in live concerts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/new-alice-in-chains-singer-i-don-t-think-i-could-sound-like-layne-staley-if-i-tried/|title=New ALICE IN CHAINS Singer: 'I Don't Think I Could Sound Like LAYNE STALEY If I Tried'|work=Blabbermouth|date=November 22, 2009|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waaf.com/blogs/alice-chains-william-duvall-i-am-not-layne-staley|title=Alice In Chains' William DuVall: 'I Am Not Layne Staley'|work=WAAF|date=August 15, 2015|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref>

He also has a solo career and released the albums ''[[Boggy Depot]]'' in 1998 and ''[[Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2]]'' in 2002. His third solo album, ''[[Brighten (album)|Brighten]]'', was released in 2021. His most recent release is 2024's ''[[I Want Blood]]''. Cantrell has also collaborated and performed with [[Heart (band)|Heart]], [[Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Metallica]], [[Pantera (band)|Pantera]], [[Circus of Power]], [[Metal Church]], [[Gov't Mule]], [[Damageplan]], [[Pearl Jam]], [[the Cult]], [[Stone Temple Pilots]], [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]], [[Glenn Hughes (English singer)|Glenn Hughes]], [[Duff McKagan]], and [[Deftones]], among others.

Cantrell was named "[[Riff]] Lord" by British hard rock/metal magazine ''[[Metal Hammer]]'' in 2006.<ref name="riff lord"/> [[Guitar World|''Guitar World'' Magazine]] ranked Cantrell as the 38th out of "100 Greatest [[Heavy metal music|Heavy Metal]] Guitarists of All Time" in 2004,<ref name="heavy metal guitarists"/> and the 37th "Greatest Guitar Player of All Time" in 2012.<ref name="all time guitarists"/> ''Guitar World'' also ranked Cantrell's solo in "[[Man in the Box]]" at No. 77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008.<ref name="guitar solo"/> Cantrell has earned nine [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GRAMMY Award Results for Jerry Cantrell |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/jerry-cantrell/8678 |access-date=October 31, 2021 |website=Grammy.com|date=November 23, 2020 }}</ref>

He also contributed to the soundtracks of ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' (1996), ''[[John Wick: Chapter 2]]'' (2017), and ''[[Dark Nights: Metal]]'' (2018), and he has made cameos in films such as ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' (1996), ''[[Rock Slyde]]'' (2009), ''[[Deadwood: The Movie]]'' (2019) and ''[[Sinners_(2025_film)|Sinners]]'' (2025). Cantrell also acted in the Alice in Chains mockumentaries ''[[The Nona Tapes]]'' (1995) and ''[[Alice in Chains: AIC 23|AIC 23]]'' (2013).

==Biography==

===Early life===
Cantrell was born in [[Tacoma, Washington]], on March 18, 1966,<ref name="birthday"/> to Gloria Jean Krumpos and Jerry Fulton Cantrell.<ref>{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/298E6157F1A90B1B9A0C0E62B0A1B6F1|title=Kitsap County Auditor, Marriage Records, 1860-2014 - Jerry Fulton Cantrell - Gloria Jean Krumpos|publisher=Washington State Archives|access-date=July 8, 2017}}</ref> He grew up in [[Spanaway, Washington|Spanaway]],<ref name="seattlepi.com 2002">{{Cite news |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Making-music-sees-Cantrell-through-death-and-dark-1087394.php |title=Making music sees Cantrell through death and dark times |last=Stout |first=Gene |date=May 16, 2002 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref> and is the oldest of three children.<ref name="brother">{{cite web|url=http://www.uofmusic.com/alice-in-chains-brother-jerry-cantrell-builds-a-bridge/|title=Alice In Chains - Brother - Jerry Cantrell Builds A Bridge|publisher=U of Music|date=June 10, 2016|access-date=July 8, 2017}}</ref> His father is an Army veteran, and his mother was an amateur organist and melodica player who worked as an administrative assistant for the [[Clover Park School District]] in [[Pierce County, Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaIPd6GbR5k&t=2m20s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/XaIPd6GbR5k| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice in Chains - Live & Interview Paris 2009 |date=February 8, 2010 |website=YouTube |access-date=July 2, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=61}}</ref> His maternal grandmother was from Norway, and his maternal grandfather was from the Czech Republic.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzLolXU2B0&t=4m58s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/grzLolXU2B0| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell In-Studio on Jonesy's Jukebox |date=October 4, 2016 |website=YouTube |access-date=July 2, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Jerry-Cantrell/6000000037349680798 |title=Jerry Cantrell |website=Geni.com |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref>

After Cantrell learned to write, he documented his goal on [[Dr. Seuss]]' book, ''[[My Book about ME|My Book About Me]]'', filling in the sentence "When I grow up I want to be a..." with the words "rock star".<ref name="To Hell and Back"/>

Cantrell's father, Jerry Sr., is a [[Vietnam veteran|combat veteran]] of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="To Hell and Back">{{cite magazine|last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |date=February 8, 1996 |access-date=January 30, 2008 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-19960208 |title=Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405210558/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-to-hell-and-back-19960208 |url-status=live |archive-date=April 5, 2013 |df=mdy }}</ref> Cantrell's first childhood memory is meeting his father for the first time after he had returned from war when he was three years old.<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> Due to the strain of war, his parents divorced when he was seven years old, and Cantrell was raised by his mother, Gloria, and his maternal grandmother in Tacoma.<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> The family lived on welfare and food stamps.<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> Jerry Sr. was the main subject of the song "[[Rooster (song)|Rooster]]", which Cantrell wrote as a tribute to his father,<ref name="rooster story">{{cite web|last1=Yates|first1=Henry|title=Alice In Chains: the story behind Rooster|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2006-11-15/the-story-behind-the-song-rooster-by-alice-in-chains|website=Team Rock|access-date=April 15, 2018|date=November 15, 2006}}</ref> and his mother Gloria is also mentioned by name in the song.<ref>Liner notes, ''[[Dirt (Alice in Chains album)|Dirt]]''. [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]. 1992.</ref> Father and son also appeared together on the music video for "Rooster", in which Jerry Sr. recalls the war.<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> Cantrell would later name his music publishing company as ''[[Rooster's Son Publishing]]''.<ref>Liner notes, ''[[The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here]]''. [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]. 2013.</ref><ref>Liner notes, ''[[Rainier Fog]]''. [[BMG Rights Management|BMG]]. 2019.</ref>

Cantrell and his mother moved back to Spanaway where he attended junior high.<ref name="page 56">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=56}}</ref> His first job was delivering newspapers.<ref name="theskinny">{{Cite web |url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/jerry-cantrell-all-secrets-known-feature |title=Jerry Cantrell: All Secrets Known |last=Kerr |first=Dave |date=October 26, 2009 |website=The Skinny |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref>
Cantrell attended high school at [[Spanaway Lake High School]],<ref name="page 57">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=57}}</ref> and, before owning his first guitar, he was a member of the high school choir which attended many state competitions.<ref name="page 56"/> In his senior year, Cantrell became choir president,<ref name="page 56"/> and the quartet sang the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|national anthem]] at basketball games and won competitions with the highest marks achievable.<ref name="page 56"/> Cantrell has cited his interest in dark musical tones as dating back to this period: "In choir we performed [[a cappella]] Gregorian chants from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was scary church music."<ref name=dailynews>{{cite news|last=Farber |first=Jim |access-date=September 11, 2011 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2002/06/16/2002-06-16__unchained_melodies__with_a_.html |date=June 16, 2002 |title=Unchained melodies |newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |archive-date=April 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404073900/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2002/06/16/2002-06-16__unchained_melodies__with_a_.html |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> His choir teacher and drama teacher were, early on, his two greatest motivators toward a career in music. When [[Facelift (album)|Alice in Chains' first album]] went [[RIAA certification|gold]], Cantrell sent both teachers a gold record.<ref name="seattle pi 98">{{cite web|url=http://web.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/seattlepi_10-30.html |title=Jerry Depot - Cantrell seeks out a solo identity on first tour away from Alice |work=The Seattle Post-Intelligencer |last1=Stout |first1=Gene |date=October 30, 1998 |access-date=June 23, 2009 |archive-date=August 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801193944/http://web.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/seattlepi_10-30.html |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> He graduated from high school in 1984.<ref name="page 57"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bethelsd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=5546&ViewID=DEDCCD34-7C24-4AF2-812A-33C0075398BC&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=6484&PageID=3777&Tag=&Comments=true |title=Alumni: Jerry Cantrell - Bethel School District |date=July 21, 2017 |website=Bethel School District |access-date=July 2, 2018 |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703051316/https://www.bethelsd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=5546&ViewID=DEDCCD34-7C24-4AF2-812A-33C0075398BC&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=6484&PageID=3777&Tag=&Comments=true |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Cantrell picked up a guitar for the first time when he was in sixth grade.<ref name="theskinny"/> At that time he played clarinet, and his mother was dating a guitar player who handed his guitar to Cantrell and taught him a couple of chords.<ref name="theskinny"/> Cantrell picked it up very quickly, impressing his mother's boyfriend who suggested that she should buy her son a guitar, so she bought him an acoustic guitar.<ref name="theskinny"/> It would not be until the age of 17 that he began seriously playing an electric guitar.<ref name="Q & A"/> Cantrell [[Autodidacticism|learned to play guitar by ear]], emulating his heroes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpG4yDBnjfo&t=3m08s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/lpG4yDBnjfo| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=E3 VIP - Alice in Chains Jerry Cantrell Answers IGN Questions |publisher=YouTube|date=June 12, 2013|access-date=December 11, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In his mid-teens he bought his first guitar from a swap meet, a Korean-made [[Fender Stratocaster]].<ref name="gospel">{{Cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/alice-in-chains-the-gospel-according-to-jerry-cantrell |title=Alice In Chains: The Gospel According To Jerry Cantrell |date=November 7, 2016 |website=Louder Sound |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref>

His maternal grandmother, Dorothy Krumpos, died of cancer in October 1986,<ref name="pages 60-61">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|pages=60–61}}</ref> and his mother Gloria died of [[pancreatic cancer]] at age 43 in April 1987, when Cantrell was 21 years old.<ref name="pages 60-61"/><ref name="Guitar World 98">{{cite magazine|last=Weingarten |first=Marc |magazine=[[Guitar World]]|url=http://w1.881.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/guitarworld_6.html |title=Unchained |date=June 1998 |access-date=July 7, 2009 |archive-date=July 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731074835/http://w1.881.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/guitarworld_6.html |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Friends recalled that Cantrell fell into depression and became a completely different person after losing both his mother and grandmother within a short span of time.<ref name="pages 60-61"/>

The first album that Cantrell owned was [[Elton John]]'s 1974 ''[[Greatest Hits (Elton John album)|Greatest Hits]]'' compilation,<ref name="EW 2009">{{cite magazine |url=http://ew.com/article/2009/10/01/alice-in-chains-elton-john-jerry-cantrell/|title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell and Elton John on their 'Black Gives Way to Blue' collaboration |date=October 1, 2009|magazine=Entertainment Weekly | access-date=May 20, 2018}}</ref> which was a gift he received from his father when he was 10 years old.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mariskalrock.com/general/entrevista-jerry-cantrell-alice-in-chains-no-vivimos-pasado/ |title=No vivimos en el pasado |last=Goumas |first=Yorgos  |date=July 30, 2018 |website=Mariskal Rock |language=es |access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref> He noted in an interview that he was "raised on [[country music]]" as a youth and that he admires the emotion conveyed in the genre.<ref name="Guitar World 98"/> He also considers himself "half [[Yankee]] and half [[redneck]]".<ref name="Guitar World 98"/> However, hard rock music caught Cantrell's interest predominantly. He would later cite guitarists such as [[Jimi Hendrix]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/12700-jerry-cantrell-alice-in-chains-favourite-albums?page=5|title=Trace The Bloodline: Jerry Cantrell Of Alice In Chains' Favourite Albums |magazine=The Quietus|date=28 June 2013|access-date=25 July 2017}}</ref> [[Ace Frehley]], [[Tony Iommi]], [[Angus Young]], [[Jimmy Page]], [[Glenn Tipton]], [[K.K. Downing]], [[David Gilmour]], [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]],<ref name="Heart">{{cite news|url=http://www.theaquarian.com/2006/03/08/alice-in-chains-the-return/|title=Interview with Alice In Chains: The Return|newspaper=The Aquarian|date=8 March 2006|access-date=25 July 2017}}</ref> and [[Eddie Van Halen]] as major influences,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/jerry-cantrell-talks-devils--dinosaurs/151354 |title=Jerry Cantrell talks 'Devils & Dinosaurs' |publisher=guitarplayer.com |date=April 17, 2013 |access-date=November 25, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003442/http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/jerry-cantrell-talks-devils--dinosaurs/151354 |df=mdy }}</ref> as well as [[Elton John]]<ref name="songwriting style">{{cite web|url=http://blog.siriusxm.com/2016/11/02/jerry-cantrell-discusses-his-songwriting-style-on-never-meet-your-heroes-with-scott-ian/|title=Jerry Cantrell discusses his songwriting style on 'Never Meet Your Heroes' with Scott Ian|publisher=SiriusXM|date=2 November 2016|access-date=15 July 2017|archive-date=July 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706063105/http://blog.siriusxm.com/2016/11/02/jerry-cantrell-discusses-his-songwriting-style-on-never-meet-your-heroes-with-scott-ian/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and bands [[Fleetwood Mac]],<ref name="songwriting style"/> [[Heart (band)|Heart]]<ref name="Heart"/><ref name="Hall of Fame">{{cite web|url=http://radio.com/2013/05/16/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-heart-rock-hall/|title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell On His 'Sisters' In Heart & What Their Rock Hall Induction Means|publisher=radio.com|date=16 May 2013|access-date=8 July 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702141828/http://radio.com/2013/05/16/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-heart-rock-hall/|archive-date=July 2, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and [[Rush (band)|Rush]] as his early songwriting idols.<ref name="Hall of Fame"/> Cantrell also cited [[Soundgarden]] as a big influence on him.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7NNXB8WYjw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/r7NNXB8WYjw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell remembers Chris Cornell |date=April 14, 2018 |website=YouTube |access-date=April 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Early career===
[[File:Cantrell06.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|left|Cantrell playing with Alice in Chains at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992]]
In 1985, Cantrell was attending college during the Winter Semester,<ref name="billboard2014">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/dimebag-darrell/6363741/alice-in-chains-guitarist-jerry-cantrell-remembers-dimebag-darrell |title=Alice in Chains Guitarist Jerry Cantrell Remembers 'Dimebag' Darrell: 'He Was an Amazing Guitarist -- and an Even Better Person' |date=December 8, 2014 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref> but he decided to quit it and moved to [[Dallas, Texas]], to join a band with a couple of friends.<ref name="billboard2014"/> Cantrell worked doing [[asbestos abatement]] around the Dallas and Houston areas.<ref name="RS 2018">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/jerry-cantrell-remembers-panteras-vinnie-paul-he-lived-his-life-unapologetically-667051/ |title=Jerry Cantrell Remembers Pantera's Vinnie Paul: 'He Lived His Life Unapologetically' |date=June 27, 2018 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref> He also worked at the music store Arnold and Morgan Music Company.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/jerry-cantrell-facelift|title=Jerry Cantrell: Facelift|magazine=Guitar World|date=5 January 2010|access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> While working at the store, Cantrell bought what he described as his first "real guitar", a 1984 [[G&L Musical Instruments|G&L Rampage]].<ref name="gospel"/> During that time, he had a band with [[Vinnie Chas]] (from [[Pretty Boy Floyd (American band)|Pretty Boy Floyd]]), called Sinister. Later they formed another band called Raze.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rockeyez.com/interviews/int-prettyboyfloyd-chas.html|title=Interview: Vinnie Chas (Pretty Boy Floyd)|publisher=RockEyez|access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref>

While living in Dallas, Cantrell met an early incarnation of the band [[Pantera (band)|Pantera]] and started a long friendship with brothers [[Dimebag Darrell]] and [[Vinnie Paul]].<ref name="RS 2018"/>

In 1985 or 1986, Cantrell moved back to Tacoma and began a band called Diamond Lie, which included singer Scott Damon, drummer Bobby Nesbitt and bassist Matt Muasau.<ref name="Untold">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUonBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|access-date=8 July 2017|isbn=9781466848399|last1=Sola|first1=David de|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Macmillan }}</ref> The band started playing concerts in Tacoma and Seattle with the goal of getting a record deal. They recorded a four-song demo at [[London Bridge Studio]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=59}}</ref>

When Cantrell was 20 years old, he was working several part-time jobs to pay his rent, one of which involved throwing boxes of frozen fish in a warehouse.<ref name="Guitar World 2013"/> He spent his time outside of work playing guitar and jamming with any band he could find.<ref name="Guitar World 2013"/>

Three weeks after his mother's death on April 11, 1987, Cantrell went to see the band [[Alice N' Chains]] perform at the Tacoma Little Theatre, and was impressed by the voice of the lead singer, [[Layne Staley]].<ref name="pages 60-61"/><ref name="Intimate">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0WLlAx6PpE&t=10m02s| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520153739/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0WLlAx6PpE&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2019-05-20 | url-status=dead|title=Intimate interview with Alice in Chains|website=[[YouTube]]|date=20 April 2017|access-date=17 July 2017}}</ref> Diamond Lie played their last concert in July 1987.<ref>{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=62}}</ref>

Cantrell met Layne Staley, then Alice N' Chains' lead singer, at a party in Seattle around August 1987.<ref name="page 67">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=67}}</ref> He was homeless after being kicked out of his family's house,<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> so Staley invited Cantrell to live with him at the 24-hour rehearsal studio "The Music Bank".<ref name="page 67"/><ref name="Layne Staley 1996 Interview">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALAJkqgGgVM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/ALAJkqgGgVM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Layne Staley Interview Alice in Chains 1996 part 1 of 2|website=[[YouTube]]|date=November 21, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Shortly after Cantrell moved in with Staley at the Music Bank, Alice 'N Chains broke up.<ref name="AIC origin">{{cite web|url=http://uproxx.com/life/history-of-grunge-music-scene-while-traveling-in-seattle-washington/|title=A Tour Of Seattle During The Glory Days Of Grunge|publisher=Uproxx|date=9 July 2016|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref>

Cantrell wanted to form a new band and Staley gave him the phone number of Melinda Starr, the girlfriend of drummer [[Sean Kinney]], so that Cantrell could talk to him.<ref name="page 68">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=68}}</ref> Cantrell called the number and set up a meeting with Kinney.<ref name="page 68"/> Kinney and his girlfriend went to the Music Bank and listened to Cantrell's demos. Cantrell mentioned that they needed a bass player to jam with them and he had someone in mind: [[Mike Starr (musician)|Mike Starr]], with whom Cantrell had played in a band in [[Burien]] called Gypsy Rose.<ref name="page 68"/> Kinney pointed at his girlfriend and said: "that's weird cause that's his sister".<ref name="page 68"/> Kinney called Starr and a few days later they started jamming with Cantrell at the Music Bank, but they didn't have a singer.<ref name="page 68"/><ref name="AIC origin"/>

Staley was already starting up another band, but Cantrell, Starr and Kinney wanted him to be their lead singer.<ref name="AIC origin"/> They started auditioning terrible lead singers in front of Staley to send a hint. The last straw for Staley was when they auditioned a male stripper – he decided to join the band after that.<ref name="Jerry and Sean">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJW77uMEHdI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/tJW77uMEHdI| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Interview Alice In Chains - Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney about Layne Staley|work=YouTube|date=12 January 2010|access-date=8 July 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Staley, who was Cantrell's roommate at the time, agreed to join on the condition that Cantrell join his [[funk]] project (which ended shortly after),<ref name="RS 1992">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-19921126|title=Alice in Chains: Through the Looking Glass|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=26 November 1992|access-date=24 November 2017|archive-date=July 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728124745/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass-19921126|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Staley joined Cantrell's band on a full-time basis.<ref name="page 68"/> The band had names like "Mothra", "Fuck" and "Diamond Lie",<ref name="Jerry and Sean"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bacus.net/alice/images/diamond.htm|title=Diamond Lie Press Kit|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> the latter being the name of Cantrell's previous band.<ref name="Jerry and Sean"/> Diamond Lie gained attention in the Seattle area and eventually took the name of Staley's previous band, ''Alice N' Chains'', and was quickly renamed as Alice in Chains.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNvExYKj4A |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/xvNvExYKj4A| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell explains who is Alice and why is she in Chains |work=YouTube|date=August 22, 2017 |access-date=November 24, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Jerry and Sean"/><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kleidermacher |first=Mordechai |date=July 1990 |title=Link With Brutality |magazine=[[Circus Magazine|Circus magazine]]}}</ref>

Cantrell attended a [[Guns N' Roses]] concert at the Seattle Center in 1988,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/1988/seattle-center-coliseum-seattle-wa-2bd6c4ca.html |title=Guns N' Roses Concert Setlist at Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle on June 1, 1988 |website=Setlist.fm |access-date=July 27, 2018}}</ref> and took an Alice in Chains demo tape to give to the band. He met [[Axl Rose]] after the show and gave him the tape. As he was walking away, Cantrell saw Rose throwing the demo away.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6SAh6-DahA  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/c6SAh6-DahA| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell gave Axl Rose an Alice in Chains demo tape and Axl threw it away |date=November 8, 2017 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Years later, Guns N' Roses chose Alice in Chains to be the opening act of their [[Not in This Lifetime... Tour|2016 reunion tour]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/alice-in-chains-plot-second-leg-of-headlining-north-american-tour-61225/|title=Alice in Chains Plot Second Leg of Headlining North American Tour|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=June 6, 2016|access-date=July 27, 2018}}</ref>

Alice in Chains' final demo, ''The Treehouse Tapes'', was completed in 1988 and found its way to the music managers Kelly Curtis and [[Susan Silver]], who also managed the Seattle bands [[Mother Love Bone]] and [[Soundgarden]], respectively. Curtis and Silver passed the demo on to [[Columbia Records]].<ref name="page 110">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=110}}</ref> After three months of negotiations, Alice in Chains signed to Columbia Records on September 11, 1989.<ref name="page 110"/>

===Alice in Chains===
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====Layne Staley era (1987–2002)====
[[File:AiCBoston02.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Layne Staley (foreground) and Cantrell performing at The Channel in Boston in 1992]]
Jerry Cantrell served as the lead guitarist, co-lyricist, co-vocalist and main composer of [[Alice in Chains]] until the group's near-permanent hiatus beginning in the late 1990s and leading through the death of lead singer [[Layne Staley]] in April 2002.<ref name="PopMatters2002"/> Cantrell's guitar contribution gave a [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] edge to the band's unique [[grunge]] style.<ref name="Marsicano2008">{{cite web|last=Marsicano|first=Dan|date=March 31, 2008|title=What The Hell Happened To… 03.31.08: Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip|url=http://411mania.com/music/what-the-hell-happened-to-03-31-08-jerry-cantrell-degradation-trip/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144422/https://411mania.com/music/what-the-hell-happened-to-03-31-08-jerry-cantrell-degradation-trip/|archive-date=April 2, 2015|publisher=411mania.com}}</ref> Cantrell also played bass on the track "Love Song", from the 1992 ''[[Sap (EP)|Sap]]'' EP.<ref name="sap">{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Alice-In-Chains-SAP/release/9810458|title=Alice In Chains – SAP|work=Discogs|access-date=July 22, 2017}}</ref>

Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on the 1992 acoustic EP ''Sap'', and his role continued to grow in the following albums, making Alice in Chains a two-vocal band.<ref name="two-vocal">{{cite web|url=http://diffuser.fm/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-vocals/|title=Jerry Cantrell Recalls How Alice in Chains Developed Their Twin-Vocal Sound|publisher=Diffuser.fm|date=25 April 2017|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="CoS">{{cite magazine|url=https://consequence.net/2009/09/album-review-alice-in-chains-black-gives-way-to-blue/|title=Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue|magazine=Consequence of Sound|date=29 September 2009|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="mcall">{{cite news|url=http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/mc-musikfest-alice-in-chains-steel-stage-20150815-story.html|title=Rock solid: Alice in Chains continues to pack a punch|newspaper=The Morning Call|date=15 August 2015|access-date=24 November 2017|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031402/http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/mc-musikfest-alice-in-chains-steel-stage-20150815-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cantrell stated that it was Staley who encouraged him to sing.<ref name="two-vocal"/><ref>{{cite web|title=ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist: We're Not Intending To Replace LAYNE STALEY|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-we-re-not-intending-to-replace-layne-staley/|website=Blabbermouth|access-date=November 24, 2017|date=January 1, 2009}}</ref><ref name="Intimate"/>

Although Alice in Chains has been labeled [[grunge]] by the mainstream media,<ref>Tim Karan, [http://www.avclub.com/article/jar-flies-alice-chains-unleashed-accidental-master-203922 ''With Jar Of Flies, Alice In Chains unleashed an accidental masterpiece''], A.V. Club, May 6, 2014.</ref> Cantrell identifies the band as primarily [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]. He told ''[[Guitar World]]'' in 1996, "We're a lot of different things&nbsp;... I don't quite know what the mixture is, but there's definitely metal, [[blues]], [[rock and roll]], maybe a touch of [[punk rock|punk]]. The metal part will never leave, and I never want it to".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art004.html |first1=Jeff |last1=Gilbert |first2=Andy |last2=Aledort |title=Go Ask Alice |work=Guitar World |date=January 1996 |access-date=2012-10-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729233916/http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art004.html |archive-date=July 29, 2013 }} See also: [https://books.google.com/books?id=4R0xtoz_gQ8C&hl=en&pg=142&dq=%22Guitar+World,+January+1996+Go+Ask+Alice+Jerry+Cantrell+offers+some+entertaining+and+frank+observations+on+the+state+of+Alice+in+Chains,+the+glories+of+the+band%27s+new,+self-titled+album,+and+life+in+the+Seattle+wonderland.+By+Jeff+Gilbert%22 1a], [https://books.google.com/books?id=4R0xtoz_gQ8C&hl=en&pg=147&dq=%22We%27re+a+lot+of+different+things,+too.+I+don%27t+quite+know+what+the+mixture+is,+but+there%27s+definitely+metal,+blues,+rock+and+roll,+maybe+a+touch+of+punk.+The+metal+part+will+never+leave,+and+I+never+want+it+to%22 1b], [http://www.guitarworld.com/1996-guitar-world-interview-jerry-cantrell-alice-chains-discusses-songwriting-and-bands-new-self-titled-album?page=0,1 2].</ref>

Alice in Chains was one of the most successful bands of the 1990s, selling over 20 million records worldwide,<ref name="newalbumtitle">{{cite news|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140829 |title=ALICE IN CHAINS Interviewed By VOICE OF AMERICA |work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |date=May 28, 2010 |access-date=November 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530075734/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140829 |archive-date=May 30, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and over 14 million records in the US alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=3&table=tblTopArt&action= |title=Recording Industry Association of America |publisher=RIAA |access-date=2011-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827163822/http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=3&table=tblTopArt&action= |archive-date=August 27, 2013 }}</ref> Their debut album, ''[[Facelift (album)|Facelift]]'', was released in 1990 and has been certified double-platinum by the RIAA, selling over two million copies.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Alice+in+Chains&ti=Facelift#search_section |title=American album certifications – Alice in Chains – Facelift| work=Recording Industry Association of America |access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref> Cantrell dedicated the album to his late mother Gloria and to his close friend [[Andrew Wood (singer)|Andrew Wood]], lead singer of the band [[Mother Love Bone]] who died in 1990.<ref name="Facelift liner notes">Liner notes, ''[[Facelift (album)|Facelift]]''. [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]. 1990.</ref> Speaking with ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine in January 1991, Cantrell confirmed that the song "[[Sunshine (Alice in Chains song)|Sunshine]]" from ''Facelift'' was written about his mother's death. "When I was a little kid, I'd always tell her, "I'll be famous and buy you a house and you'll never have to work again. I'll take care of you like you took care of me.' When she passed away, it was a really shitty time for me. I didn't know how to deal with it then, and I still don't. But it gave me the impetus to do what I'm doing."<ref name="Spin">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9fMwxwJ7tkC&q=sunshine&pg=PA37 |title=New Music Preview: Alice in Chains|last=Darzin|first=Daina|date=January 1991|page=37|publisher=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|access-date=July 27, 2018}}</ref>

In February 1992, the band released the acoustic EP ''[[Sap (EP)|Sap]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Chris |date=October 24, 1992 |title=Alice In Chains Album Races Into Top 10 Despite Bum Leg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2REEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22 |magazine=Billboard |pages=17 & 22 |access-date=March 27, 2018}}</ref> The EP has been certified gold,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=ALICE+IN+CHAINS&ti=SAP |title=American album certifications – Alice in Chains – Sap| work=Recording Industry Association of America |access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref> and it features guest vocals by [[Ann Wilson]] from the band [[Heart (band)|Heart]], who joined Cantrell for the chorus of "[[Brother (Alice in Chains song)|Brother]]", and Staley for the chorus of "Am I Inside". The EP also features [[Mark Arm]] of [[Mudhoney]] and [[Chris Cornell]] of [[Soundgarden]], who appeared together on the song "Right Turn", credited as "[[Alice Mudgarden]]" in the liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |others=Alice in Chains |title=Right Turn |year=1992 |publisher=[[Columbia Records]] |id=[[Buttnugget Publishing]]/Jack Lord Music (#67059)}}</ref> The opening track, "Brother", featured Cantrell on lead vocals. The song was about Cantrell's relationship with his younger brother, David.<ref name="brother"/> Cantrell also played bass on the last track, "Love Song".<ref name="sap"/>

Their second full-length album, ''[[Dirt (Alice in Chains album)|Dirt]]'', was released in September 1992 to critical acclaim and was certified quadruple platinum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=ALICE+IN+CHAINS&ti=DIRT|title=Gold & Platinum - RIAA|website=RIAA|language=en-US|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref> The album's lead single, "[[Would?]]", was written by Cantrell as a tribute to his late friend [[Andrew Wood (singer)|Andrew Wood]].<ref name="would">{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell wrote Alice in Chains' "Would?" in tribute to Andrew Wood|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myDVN8P-sdU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/myDVN8P-sdU| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=July 31, 2017|date=July 8, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The song was also featured on the soundtrack to [[Cameron Crowe]]'s 1992 film ''[[Singles (1992 film)|Singles]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=July 11, 1992 |title=There's Sizzle In Summer Soundtracks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA72 |magazine=Billboard |page=72}}</ref> The album's fourth single, "Rooster", was a tribute to Cantrell's father.<ref name="rooster story"/>

Alice in Chains' second acoustic EP, ''[[Jar of Flies]]'', debuted at No. 1 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart in 1994,<ref name="AIC chart">{{cite magazine|title=Alice in Chains - Chart History - Billboard 200|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/alice-in-chains/chart-history/tlp/|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> becoming the first ever EP and first Alice in Chains release to top the charts.<ref name="AIC chart"/> It has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA.<ref name="Jar">{{cite web| url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Alice+in+Chains&ti=Jar+of+Flies#search_section |title=American album certifications – Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies| work=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> The album's fifth track was an instrumental song, "Whale & Wasp", described by Cantrell as "a conversation between whales and wasps".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art002.html |title=Primecuts: Jerry Cantrell |last=Kitts  |first=Jeff  |date=May 1994 |website=Guitar School |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714220104/http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art002.html |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Alice in Chains broke up for six months following the cancellation of their opening act at the [[Metallica]] tour in July 1994,<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> citing "health problems within the band".<ref>{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=212}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/nov/22/hearing-from-alice-after-quiet-year-alice-in/|title=Hearing From Alice After Quiet Year, Alice In Chains Hammers Out New Album With The Hard And Heavy Sound Fans Will Appreciate |work=The Spokesman-Review|date=November 22, 1995|access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref> The band's [[Alice in Chains (album)|self-titled third studio album]] was released in November 1995, debuted at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart,<ref name="AIC chart"/> and has been certified double platinum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=ALICE+IN+CHAINS&ti=ALICE+IN+CHAINS|title=Gold & Platinum RIAA – Alice in Chains (1995) |work=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> The singles "[[Grind (song)|Grind]]", "[[Over Now (Alice in Chains song)|Over Now]]", and "[[Heaven Beside You]]" feature Cantrell on lead vocals. The band did not tour in support of their self-titled album.<ref name="RS 1996">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flashback-alice-in-chains-play-final-show-with-layne-staley-20160405|title=Flashback: Alice in Chains Play Final Show With Layne Staley|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 5, 2016|access-date=December 11, 2017|archive-date=December 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212084652/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flashback-alice-in-chains-play-final-show-with-layne-staley-20160405|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On April 10, 1996, Alice in Chains played their first concert in two and a half years for ''[[MTV Unplugged]]'', a program featuring all-acoustic set lists.<ref name="Unplugged show">{{cite video|people=Perota, Joe (Director)|date=April 15, 1996|url=http://www.aliceinchains.com/discography/unplugged.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217083456/http://www.aliceinchains.com/discography/unplugged.aspx |archive-date=February 17, 2007 | title=Unplugged – Alice in Chains | medium=Television production | location=New York City | publisher=[[MTV]]}}</ref><ref name="Alice In Chains Concert Chronology">{{cite web| url=http://www.bacus.net/alice/aicshows/960410.htm |title=Alice in Chains Concert Chronology: MTV Unplugged Session |publisher=John Bacus |access-date=2007-12-12| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071211090109/http://www.bacus.net/alice/aicshows/960410.htm| archive-date= December 11, 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref> The show featured some of the band's highest charting singles, including "[[Rooster (song)|Rooster]]", "[[Down in a Hole]]", "[[Heaven Beside You]]", "[[No Excuses (Alice in Chains song)|No Excuses]]" and "[[Would?]]", and introduced a new song, "Killer Is Me", with Cantrell on lead vocals.<ref name="Unplugged show"/> Cantrell stated that he was ill during the performance as a result of food poisoning from a hot dog consumed before the gig.<ref name="guitar school">{{Cite magazine |last=Kitts |first=Jeff |date=August 1996 |title=The Soft Parade |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zERMAgAAQBAJ&q=guitar+school+august+1996&pg=PT89 |magazine=Guitar School |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=27–30|isbn=9781476851198 }}</ref><ref name="Q & A">{{cite interview |last=Cantrell |first=Jerry |subject-link=Jerry Cantrell |interviewer=Aidin Vaziri |title=Q & A With Jerry Cantrell |url=http://www.sfgate.com/music/popquiz/article/Q-A-With-Jerry-Cantrell-3010071.php |website=SFGate.com |date=April 12, 1998 |access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref>

Alice in Chains performed four shows supporting [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] on their [[Alive/Worldwide Tour]] in 1996, including the final live appearance of Layne Staley on July 3, 1996, in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. Shortly after the show, Staley was found unresponsive after he overdosed on [[heroin]] and was hospitalized.<ref name="RS 1996"/> Staley rarely left his condo in Seattle,<ref name="RS 1996"/> but in 1998 the band reunited to record two new songs, "[[Get Born Again]]" and "[[Died (Alice in Chains song)|Died]]", originally intended for Cantrell's second solo album,<ref name="PopMatters2002">{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/cantrell-jerry-021226/|title=Degradation Trip: An interview with Jerry Cantrell|author=Michael Christopher|work=PopMatters|date=December 26, 2002|access-date=December 11, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024122126/http://www.popmatters.com/feature/cantrell-jerry-021226/|archive-date=October 24, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the songs were released on the 1999 box set ''[[Music Bank (album)|Music Bank]]''.<ref name="RS 1996"/><ref name="discography">{{cite web| url=http://www.aliceinchains.com/music.aspx| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628204951/http://www.aliceinchains.com/music.aspx| archive-date=June 28, 2006 |title=Alice in Chains.com – Discography |publisher=Aliceinchains.com |access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref> Still in 1999, the band released a 15-track compilation titled ''[[Nothing Safe: Best of the Box]]''.<ref name="discography"/> Their first compilation, titled "''[[Live (Alice in Chains album)|Live]]"'', was released on December 5, 2000.<ref name="discography"/> In 2001, a second compilation titled ''[[Greatest Hits (Alice in Chains album)|Greatest Hits]]'' was released.<ref name="discography"/>

====Reunion and new albums (2005–present)====
Although never officially disbanding, Alice in Chains was plagued by extended inactivity from 1996 onwards due to Staley's [[substance abuse]], which resulted in his death in 2002. The band reformed in 2005 when drummer Sean Kinney had the idea to reunite the surviving members<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1496882/ex-alice-in-chains-members-enlist-damageplan-singer-others-for-benefit/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011718/http://www.mtv.com/news/1496882/ex-alice-in-chains-members-enlist-damageplan-singer-others-for-benefit/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 5, 2016|title=Ex-Alice In Chains Members Enlist Damageplan Singer, Others For Benefit |work=MTV News|date=February 11, 2005|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> to perform a benefit concert for the victims of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|tsunami disaster]] that struck South Asia in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/Kinney-drums-up-enthusiastic-response-for-tsunami-1166652.php|title=Kinney drums up enthusiastic response for tsunami benefit |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=February 17, 2005|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> On February 18, 2005, Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney reunited to perform for the first time in 10 years as Alice in Chains at the ''K-Rock Tsunami Continued Care Relief Concert'' in Seattle.<ref name="Benefit concert">{{cite news| author=Hay, Travis |date=February 21, 2005 |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/pop/212872_alice21q.html |title=Alice in Chains owns stage in tsunami-relief show full of surprises |publisher=Seattlepi.com|access-date=July 8, 2017}}</ref> The band featured [[Damageplan]] vocalist [[Pat Lachman]], as well as other special guests including [[Maynard James Keenan]] of [[Tool (band)|Tool]], [[Wes Scantlin]] from [[Puddle of Mudd]] and [[Ann Wilson]] of [[Heart (band)|Heart]].<ref name="Benefit concert"/><ref name="AIC guests">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10518215/latest_news_jayz_the_strokes_r_kelly_and_more |title=Metallica man joins Alice in Chains |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 9, 2006 |access-date=November 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613024237/https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10518215/latest_news_jayz_the_strokes_r_kelly_and_more |archive-date=June 13, 2006 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> A few months after that concert, the band called their former manager Susan Silver and Cantrell's manager [[Bill Siddons]] and said they wanted to tour as Alice in Chains again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pollstarpro.com/live2010/panelband.htm|title=Putting The Band Back Together|work=PollstarPro|date=February 17, 2010|access-date=November 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204214139/http://www.pollstarpro.com/live2010/panelband.htm|archive-date=February 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On March 10, 2006, Cantrell, Inez and Kinney performed at [[VH1]]'s ''[[Decades Rock Live!]]'' concert, honoring fellow Seattle musicians Ann and [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]] of Heart. They played "[[Would?]]" with vocalist [[Phil Anselmo]] of [[Pantera]] and [[Down (band)|Down]] and bass player [[Duff McKagan]] of [[Guns N' Roses]] and [[Velvet Revolver]], then they played "[[Rooster (song)|Rooster]]" with Ann Wilson and [[Comes with the Fall]] vocalist [[William DuVall]].<ref name="AIC guests"/> The band followed the concert with a short United States club tour, several festival dates in Europe, and a brief tour in Japan. To coincide with the band's reunion, [[Sony Music Entertainment|Sony Music]] released the long-delayed third Alice in Chains compilation, ''[[The Essential Alice in Chains]]'', a double album that includes 28 songs.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.aliceinchains.com/discography/essentials.aspx| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011024536/http://www.aliceinchains.com/discography/essentials.aspx| archive-date=October 11, 2007 |title=The Essential Alice in Chains |publisher=Aliceinchains.com |access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref>

Between 2006 and 2007, Cantrell played in a number of concerts with Alice in Chains featuring guest lead singers such as [[Ann Wilson]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddaRjzzBqjw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/ddaRjzzBqjw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice in Chains - "Brother" (Ft. Ann Wilson) Seattle, WA, Nov 24. 2006 |work=YouTube|date=April 11, 2015 |access-date=November 24, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Mark Lanegan]],<ref name="Lanegan+Corgan">{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-joined-by-smashing-pumpkins-screaming-trees-singers-at-l-a-tour-opener/|title=ALICE IN CHAINS Joined By SMASHING PUMPKINS, SCREAMING TREES Singers At L.A. Tour Opener |work=Blabbermouth|date=May 19, 2006|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> [[James Hetfield]],<ref name="Hetfield+Anselmo">{{cite web|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/watch-phil-anselmo-james-hetfield-sing-would-alice-chains-2006|title=Watch Phil Anselmo, James Hetfield Sing "Would?" With Alice In Chains In 2006 |work=Revolver Magazine|date=September 27, 2017|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> Phil Anselmo,<ref name="Hetfield+Anselmo"/> [[Billy Corgan]],<ref name="Lanegan+Corgan"/> [[Scott Weiland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfOZNYBlALA| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223192445/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfOZNYBlALA&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2020-12-23 | url-status=dead|title=Alice in Chains & Scott Weiland - Angry Chair - REMASTERED |work=YouTube|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> [[Sebastian Bach]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFu8hqwF0A |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/auFu8hqwF0A| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains with Sebastian Bach - Man In The Box |work=YouTube|date=July 19, 2007 |access-date=December 11, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and William DuVall.<ref name="DuVall">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-reunite-to-tour-20060425|title=Alice in Chains Reunite to Tour|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 25, 2006|access-date=November 24, 2017|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044434/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-reunite-to-tour-20060425|url-status=dead}}</ref> Although Cantrell acknowledges the benefits of working as a solo artist, he expressed his happiness with being back in the band culture.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}

Cantrell explained the band's reunion saying, "We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend. We have played with some [singers] who can actually bring it and add their own thing to it without being a Layne clone. We're not interested in stepping on [Staley's] rich legacy. It's a tough thing to go through. Do you take the [[Led Zeppelin]] approach and never play again, because the guy was that important? That's the approach we've taken for a lot of years. Or, do you give it a shot, try something? We're willing to take a chance on it. It's completely a reunion because the three of us who're left are back together. But it's not about separating and forgetting — it's about remembering and moving on."<ref name="MTV reunion article">{{cite web| url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1524813/02232006/alice_in_chains.jhtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414181353/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1524813/02232006/alice_in_chains.jhtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 14, 2006 |title=Remaining Alice in Chains Members Reuniting for Summer Gigs |publisher=[[MTV|MTV.com]] |date=February 23, 2006|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Jerry Cantrell & William Duvall.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|William DuVall and Cantrell performing with Alice in Chains in 2006]]
Cantrell met singer William DuVall in Los Angeles in 2000, through a mutual acquaintance who introduced him to 
the [[Comes with the Fall (album)|first album]] of DuVall's band, [[Comes with the Fall]].<ref name="Cantrell and DuVall">{{Cite web |url=http://maytherockbewithyou.com/mtrbwy/2009/10/william-duvall-of-alice-in-chains/ |title=William DuVall of Alice In Chains |last=Culpan |first=Troy |date=October 9, 2009 |website=maytherockbewithyou.com |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> Cantrell started hanging out with the band and occasionally joining them onstage.<ref name="Creative Loafing">{{Cite web |url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-161482-With-Alice-in-Chains,-Atlanta-punk-icon-William-DuVall-finds-his-audience---2/23/2010 |title=With Alice in Chains, Atlanta punk icon William DuVall finds his audience |last=Radford |first=Chad |date=February 23, 2010 |website=[[Creative Loafing (Atlanta)|Atlanta Creative Loafing]] |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> Comes with the Fall was both the opening act on Cantrell's tour for his second solo album, ''Degradation Trip'', and also the singer's backing band,<ref name="PopMatters 2003">{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/comes-with-the-fall-030925-2496107908.html|title=Banged Up But Still Unbreakable: Comes With the Fall |work=PopMatters|date=September 25, 2003|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> with DuVall singing Staley's parts at the concerts in 2001 and 2002.<ref name="The Aquarian 2009">{{cite web|url=http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/09/28/interview-with-jerry-cantrell-alice-in-chains-too-long-on-the-outside/|title=Interview with Jerry Cantrell: Alice In Chains, Too Long On The Outside |work=The Aquarian|date=September 28, 2009|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Cantrell and DuVall"/> DuVall joined Alice in Chains as full-time lead singer during the band's reunion tour in 2006, after making his first public appearance with the band at the VH1 concert.<ref name="DuVall"/><ref name="The Aquarian 2006">{{cite news|url=http://www.theaquarian.com/2006/03/08/alice-in-chains-the-return/2/|title=Interview with Alice In Chains: The Return|newspaper=The Aquarian|date=March 8, 2006|access-date=November 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07a4-Ja6EM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/U07a4-Ja6EM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=William Duvall on How He Came to Be In Alice in Chains|publisher=YouTube|date=July 8, 2016|access-date=November 24, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

By April 2007, Alice in Chains had been writing and demoing songs for a new album with DuVall,<ref name="writing and demoing">{{cite news| url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=71296 |title=Alice In Chains Begins Writing New Material |work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |date=April 26, 2007 |access-date=November 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201617/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=71296|archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> but the band did not show further signs of progress until October 2008, when they announced that they had begun recording with producer [[Nick Raskulinecz]] in the studio.<ref name="recording date">{{cite news|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107501 |title=Alice in Chains Working with Rush/Foo Fighters Producer |work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |date=2008-10-23 |access-date=2009-06-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525035102/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107501 |archive-date=May 25, 2009 |df=mdy }}</ref> The band didn't have a record label at the time and the album was funded by Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney.<ref name="Guitar World 2013">{{cite web |url=http://www.guitarworld.com/interview-jerry-cantrell-discusses-alice-chains-2009-comeback-black-gives-way-blue |title=Interview: Jerry Cantrell Discusses Alice in Chain's 2009 Comeback, 'Black Gives Way to Blue' |work=Guitar World|date=10 January 2013|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="fund">{{cite web|last1=Zina Walschots|first1=Natalie|title=Alice in Chains|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/alice_in_chains|website=Exclaim!|access-date=July 30, 2017|date=May 30, 2013}}</ref> The writing and recording process was completed on March 18, 2009 – Cantrell's 43rd birthday and also the same day that DuVall's son was born.<ref name="finishing date">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuZXbZC4ooU&t=50s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/BuZXbZC4ooU| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains Set To Release First Album In 14 Years |date=April 10, 2009 |website=YouTube |access-date=June 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

About the pressure being put on DuVall for replacing Staley as lead vocalist, Cantrell said, "To put all that weight on Will's shoulders is unfair. We're just figuring out how we work as a team. Although the band has changed, we've lost Layne, we've added Will, and there was no master plan. Playing again in 2005 felt right, so we did the next thing and toured. We did it step by step. It's more than just making music, and it always has been. We've been friends a long time. We've been more of a family than most, and it had to be okay from here", Cantrell said pointing to his heart.<ref name="Classic Rock 2009">{{cite web |url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2009-09-16/alice-in-chains-through-the-looking-glass |title=Alice In Chains: "It hurts and you miss them, but you still have to live" |work=Classic Rock|date=16 September 2009|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref>

On September 29, 2009, Alice in Chains released their first record since the death of Layne Staley, ''[[Black Gives Way to Blue]]'', and toured in support of the album.<ref name=worcester>{{cite news|first=Scott|last=McLennan|title=Alice in Chains regroups after its leader's death|work=Worcester [[Telegram & Gazette]]|date=August 6, 2006}}</ref> The album includes songs which Cantrell described as "the heaviest he's ever written",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/jerry-cantrell-interview-get-born-again|title=Jerry Cantrell interview: Get Born Again |website=[[Guitar World]] |author=Charles R. Cross |date=December 8, 2009}}</ref> and has Cantrell singing lead vocals on most of the songs and William DuVall as co-lead vocalist.<ref name="musicfeeds">{{cite web|title=Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue|url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/album/alice-in-chains-black-gives-way-to-blue/|website=MusicFeeds|date=October 2, 2009|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref><ref name="alternative">{{cite web|title=Album Review of Black Gives Way to Blue by Alice in Chains|url=http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/Review/1167|website=Alternative Addiction|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref> The [[Black Gives Way to Blue (song)|title track]] is a tribute to Layne Staley written and sung by Cantrell, accompanied by [[Elton John]] playing piano.<ref name="EW 2009"/> In the months before writing the song, Cantrell had been suffering from an unexplained illness.<ref name="Noisecreep"/> Cantrell believes the mystery illness was the pain of saying goodbye to Staley.<ref name="Noisecreep">{{cite web|title=Alice in Chains Say Goodbye to Layne Staley With Elton John|url=http://noisecreep.com/alice-in-chains-say-goodbye-to-layne-staley-with-elton-john/|website=Noisecreep|access-date=November 24, 2017|date=August 11, 2009}}</ref> He told ''Guitar World'', "I got deathly ill. I had these mystery migraines, intense physical pain, and I'd even gotten a [[Lumbar puncture|spinal tap]] to test for certain things. They never could find anything wrong with me. I felt I was puking up all this undigested grief in losing Layne." Once Cantrell started writing the song and the rest of the album, his mystery illness disappeared.<ref name="Guitar World 2013"/> Cantrell, [[Mike Inez]] and [[Sean Kinney]] also thanked Staley in the album's liner notes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encartespop.com.br/2011/10/encarte-alice-in-chains-black-gives-way.html |title=Encarte: Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue |access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref> The album was certified Gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] in May 2010,<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=ALICE+IN+CHAINS&ti=BLACK+GIVES+WAY+TO+BLUE#
| title=Gold and Platinum Database Search
| website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]
| access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> 
selling over 500,000 copies in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-strikes-gold-with-black-gives-way-to-blue/ |title=Alice In Chains Strikes Gold With 'Black Gives Way To Blue' |date=25 May 2010 |access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref>

The band released their fifth studio album, ''[[The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here]]'', on May 28, 2013,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=186281 |title=Alice in Chains: New Album Title Revealed |work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |date=February 14, 2013 |access-date=February 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220012046/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=186281 |archive-date=February 20, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> and Cantrell continued his role of main singer in the album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/171875-alice-in-chains-the-devil-put-dinosaurs-here-2495753771.html|title=Alice in Chains: The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here|work=PopMatters|date=May 27, 2013|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/gw-archive/jerry-cantrell-tells-how-alice-chains-buried|title=Jerry Cantrell Tells How Alice In Chains Buried Their Past with 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |work=Guitar World|date=June 18, 2013|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref> The album debuted at No. 2 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] (the band's highest chart position since 1995's ''[[Alice in Chains (album)|Alice in Chains]]'', which debuted at No. 1), selling 61,000 copies in its first week of release.<ref>{{cite magazine|access-date=June 6, 2013|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1565721/daft-punk-scores-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart|title=Daft Punk Scores Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart|author=Keith Caulfield|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|archive-date=June 8, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608213115/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1565721/daft-punk-scores-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In June 2017, Alice in Chains returned to Seattle's [[Studio X]] to record their sixth studio album. Studio X was the same studio where the band recorded their self-titled album, ''[[Alice in Chains (album)|Alice in Chains]]'' (1995),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-to-re-team-with-producer-nick-raskulinecz-for-new-album/|title=Alice in Chains To Re-Team With Producer Nick Raskulinecz For New Album|work=Blabbermouth |date=June 6, 2017 |access-date=July 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAMyob2PyJg&t=15m40s|title=Jerry Cantrell Interview on Trunk Nation (08/21/2017) - Alice in Chains' new album + solo album |work=YouTube|date=August 21, 2017|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref> Recording was completed in January 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/big_news_from_alice_in_chains_new_album_almost_wrapped_up.html |title=Big News From Alice in Chains: New Album Almost Wrapped Up! |date=February 8, 2018 |website=Ultimate Guitar |access-date=July 2, 2018}}</ref> On June 27, 2018, the band announced the title and unveiled the cover art of the new album, ''[[Rainier Fog]]'', released on August 24, 2018, through [[BMG Rights Management|BMG]], Alice in Chains' first release on the label.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kerrang.com/the-news/alice-in-chains-announce-new-album-debut-new-track/ |title=Alice In Chains Announce New Album, Debut New Track |date=June 27, 2018 |website=Kerrang!}}</ref> Cantrell took the album's title from the [[Mount Rainier]] in [[Seattle]], and the title track is a tribute to the Seattle music scene.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/alice-in-chains-talk-new-album-rainier-fog-w522077 |title=Alice in Chains Talk Honoring Seattle Comrades With New Album 'Rainier Fog' |date=June 27, 2018 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628070424/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/alice-in-chains-talk-new-album-rainier-fog-w522077 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As part of the promotion of ''Rainier Fog'', the baseball team [[Seattle Mariners]] hosted an "Alice in Chains Night" at the [[Safeco Field]] in Seattle on August 20, 2018, and Cantrell threw out the ceremonial first pitch and delivered a strike before the Mariners vs. [[Houston Astros]] game.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/see-alice-chains-jerry-cantrell-throw-first-pitch-seattle-mariners-game |title=See Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Throw First Pitch at Seattle Mariners Game |date=August 21, 2018 |website=Revolver |access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref>

As of 2018, Alice in Chains has had 18 Top 10 songs on the [[Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks|Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart,<ref name="Mainstream Rock">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/alice-in-chains/chart-history/rtt/|title=Alice In Chains Chart History - Mainstream Rock|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 14, 2018}}</ref> 5 No. 1 hits,<ref name="Mainstream Rock"/> and eleven [[Grammy Award]] nominations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/alice-chains|title=Alice In Chains |work=Grammy.com|access-date=December 14, 2018}}</ref>

===Solo career: ''Boggy Depot'', ''Degradation Trip'', ''Brighten'' and ''I Want Blood'' (1996–present)===
Cantrell's career outside Alice in Chains has consisted of four solo albums, as well as many appearances with other musicians and on film soundtracks. His first solo material was the song "[[Leave Me Alone (Jerry Cantrell song)|Leave Me Alone]]", released exclusively on ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' [[The Cable Guy#Soundtrack|soundtrack]] in 1996, featuring Alice in Chains drummer [[Sean Kinney]] on drums and Cantrell on lead vocals, guitar and bass.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Cable-Guy-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/8912581 |title=Various – The Cable Guy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |website=Discogs |date=1996 |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> It had a music video, which was included as a bonus feature on the 15th anniversary edition Blu-Ray of ''The Cable Guy'' in 2011,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/48111/cable-guy-15th-anniversary-edition-the/ |title=The Cable Guy - 15th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) |date=February 18, 2011 |website=DVD Talk |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> and the song reached No. 14 on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'''s [[Mainstream Rock Tracks]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jerry-cantrell/chart-history/rtt/ |title=Jerry Cantrell "Leave Me Alone" Chart History |magazine=Billboard |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> In the same year, Cantrell covered [[Willie Nelson]]'s "I've Seen All This World I Care to See" for the album ''[[Twisted Willie|Twisted Willie: A Tribute to Willie Nelson]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-27-ca-29172-story.html|title=ALBUM REVIEWS / POP: 'Twisted Willie' Gives Nelson Grunge Honors Treatment|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 27, 1996|access-date=November 4, 2017}}</ref> As the activity of Alice in Chains slowed and the band's future came into question, Cantrell reluctantly began work on his first full-length solo record. While video footage from Cantrell's official website claimed that he wanted to work solo for some time,<ref>{{cite news|website=[[MTV.com]] |date=March 30, 1998 |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424858/jerry-cantrell-takes-boggy-depot-online.jhtml |title=Jerry Cantrell Takes "Boggy Depot" Online |access-date=April 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414022438/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1424858/jerry-cantrell-takes-boggy-depot-online.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 14, 2014 |df=mdy }}</ref> his comments in ''[[Guitar World]]'' stated otherwise:

{{blockquote|It's something I never really wanted to do, but the way things have played out, it's like, why not? To be honest, I'd just be happy being the lead guitarist and singer for Alice In Chains. It's always been my first love, and always will be, but the situation being what it is... we've been together for a long time, and right now it's kinda played out. It's time to let it be. Now I've got to step up to the plate and take a few swings.<ref name="Guitar World 98"/>}}

Cantrell's debut solo album, ''[[Boggy Depot]]'', was released on April 7, 1998,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://w1.881.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/dailydish_1-30.html|title=Next Stop, 'Boggy Depot' |work=Daily Dish|date=January 30, 1998|access-date=July 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040912234001/http://w1.881.telia.com/~u88102099/Depot/articles/dailydish_1-30.html|archive-date=September 12, 2004}}</ref> and published by Cantrell's ''[[Boggy Bottom Publishing]]'' company.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-w4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10 |title=Alice's Cantrell Steps Out With Solo Set on Columbia |date=March 7, 1998 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> The title comes from the [[ghost town]] [[Boggy Depot, Oklahoma|of the same name]] in Oklahoma, which is the area that Cantrell's father grew up in.<ref name="seattle pi 98"/> The album cover shows Cantrell covered in mud standing waist-deep in a branch of the Boggy River.<ref name="seattle pi 98"/> Besides singing, Cantrell also played guitar, piano, clavinet, organ, and steel drums on the album.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell – Boggy Depot|url=https://www.discogs.com/Jerry-Cantrell-Boggy-Depot/release/798735|website=Discogs|date=April 7, 1998 }}</ref> The tracks "[[Cut You In]]", "[[My Song (Jerry Cantrell song)|My Song]]" and "[[Dickeye]]" were released as singles to promote the album.<ref name="Guitar World 98"/> Cantrell's father played the sheriff in the music video for "Cut You In".<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice in Chains - Jerry Cantrell Phone Interview|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Z4hpni5zc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/g5Z4hpni5zc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=July 31, 2017|date=July 22, 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell - Cut You In|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsAki_cekfg&t=2m20s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/wsAki_cekfg| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=July 31, 2017|date=March 4, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
[[File:Jerry Cantrell06.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Cantrell in 2006]]
His touring band for the album included Alice in Chains bandmates Inez and Kinney, and Cantrell expressed hope to have a second album released by the following year.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}} Cantrell opened for Metallica and Van Halen on their 1998 summer tour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1424859/metallica-battles-bootleggers-taps-jerry-cantrell-and-days-of-the-new-for-summer-tour/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616103416/http://www.mtv.com/news/1424859/metallica-battles-bootleggers-taps-jerry-cantrell-and-days-of-the-new-for-summer-tour/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |title=Metallica Battles Bootleggers, Taps Jerry Cantrell And Days Of The New For Summer Tour |date=March 18, 1998 |website=MTV News |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/jerry-cantrell/Content?oid=1476740 |title=Jerry Cantrell |date=April 26, 2001 |website=Cleveland Scene |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> The same year of ''Boggy Depot'', Cantrell began writing a follow-up album. He also departed from Columbia Records during this time and had trouble finding a new label.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/JerryCantrell/bio.aspx |title=Jerry Cantrell biography |access-date=November 13, 2006 |publisher=[[Roadrunner Records]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070308233540/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/JerryCantrell/bio.aspx |archive-date=March 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> Cantrell said of the writing experience:

{{blockquote|In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.<ref name=bio/>}}

In 1998, Layne Staley almost performed live again since Alice in Chains' last concert in July 1996,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flashback-alice-in-chains-play-final-show-with-layne-staley-20160405 |title=Flashback: Alice in Chains Play Final Show With Layne Staley |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=5 April 2016 |access-date=19 June 2017 |archive-date=December 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212084652/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flashback-alice-in-chains-play-final-show-with-layne-staley-20160405 |url-status=dead }}</ref> when Cantrell went to Seattle on his solo tour for ''Boggy Depot''.<ref name="Alice in Chains: The Untold Story">{{cite book|last1=de Sola|first1=David|title=Alice in Chains: The Untold Story|date=August 4, 2015|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|isbn=978-1250048073|page=280}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/jerry-cantrell/1998/showbox-comedy-and-supper-club-seattle-wa-53d06321.html |title=Jerry Cantrell at Showbox Comedy and Supper Club, Seattle, WA, USA |publisher=Setlist.fm |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref> It was Halloween night and Staley was backstage as a guest.<ref name="Alice in Chains: The Untold Story"/> Cantrell reportedly asked Staley to join him onstage, but Staley declined.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.feelnumb.com/2010/12/05/last-published-photos-of-layne-staley/ |title=The Last Published Photos of Layne Staley Alive |publisher=Feel Numb |date=5 December 2010 |access-date=19 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717115605/http://www.feelnumb.com/2010/12/05/last-published-photos-of-layne-staley/ |archive-date=July 17, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Cantrell started recording a follow-up to ''Boggy Depot'' in 2000. He was also living in San Francisco during that period.<ref name="MBM">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igfYH8LlhlY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/igfYH8LlhlY| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice Chains' Jerry Cantrell at The Million Band March (2000)|work=YouTube|date=April 5, 2013 |access-date=July 27, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He had to sell his Seattle house to fund the album and produced it himself.<ref name="seattlepi.com 2002"/><ref name=bio/> Finally in June 2002, Cantrell issued his second solo album, ''[[Degradation Trip]],'' with [[Ozzy Osbourne]]'s then live rhythm section, [[Mike Bordin]] (drums) and [[Robert Trujillo]] (bass). Released on [[Roadrunner Records]], ''Degradation Trip'' hit shelves two months after Layne Staley's death and was dedicated to him.<ref name="Roadrunner Cantrell"/> The songs on the album ranged from [[doom metal]] to pop-based [[hard rock]].<ref name=Marsicano2008/> The album, which received better critical reception than its predecessor, featured two singles, "[[Anger Rising]]" and "[[Angel Eyes (Jerry Cantrell song)|Angel Eyes]]", and the track "She Was My Girl" was included on the ''[[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]]'' [[Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man|soundtrack]].<ref name="spider-man"/>

''Degradation Trip'' has sold 100,000 copies in the U.S. as of December 2002.<ref name="100k">{{cite web|last1=Hart|first1=Gerry|title=Retail|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPzr8f3lVW8C&q=jerry+cantrell+scanned+100k&pg=PT33|website=Google Books|publisher=CMJ New Music Report|access-date=November 4, 2017|date=December 16, 2002}}</ref> The live show was well received by audiences on a national tour that helped build upon the solo album's success. ''Degradation Trip'' was [[Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2|re-released]] in November 2002 as a double album, featuring eleven additional tracks that were made for the album as Cantrell originally intended.<ref name="Roadrunner Cantrell"/> In the Spring of 2004, Cantrell opened a slate of shows on [[Kid Rock]]'s U.S. tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-to-open-for-kid-rock/|title=JERRY CANTRELL To Open For KID ROCK|work=Blabbermouth|date=April 8, 2004|access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref>

Cantrell has been rumored to be working on his third full-length solo album for several years, for a supposedly planned release in 2006. However, this album was not released until 2021. Subsequent work with the revamped Alice in Chains may have stalled this release.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-alice-in-chains-guitarist-you-can-t-replace-a-guy-like-layne-staley/ |title=Former ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist: 'You Can't Replace A Guy Like LAYNE STALEY' |date=June 15, 2005 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=July 27, 2018}}</ref> When asked about releasing another solo album, he issued this statement in 2010:

{{blockquote|Not for a while. My first and foremost love has been this band and always has been. The only reason I did those two records is because we weren't working as a band. But being a part of this band is a full time job. Some guys can do multiple things and maybe when I was younger I could do that, but not now.<ref>{{cite web|date=January 20, 2010 |url=http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/34953/musician-jerry-cantrell |title=Chat with Jerry Cantrell - SportsNation - ESPN |website=ESPN.com |access-date=November 24, 2017 |archive-date=November 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125003809/http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/34953/musician-jerry-cantrell |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>}}

In November 2014, during an interview on radio [[95.5 KLOS]], Cantrell was asked if he had any plans on doing more solo work, to which he replied: "I don't know. Maybe somewhere down the road. The only reason I ever did anything by my own was because my band wasn't really doing anything. My band has been doing things lately, so I don't really have time to do anything. I kinda focus my energy there [in the band]. Of course, you know, possibilities..."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hIpSH9kMY&t=1m49s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/o8hIpSH9kMY| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell takes over the KLOS airwaves with Melissa Maxx PT 2 |work=YouTube |date=14 November 2014 |access-date=18 July 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Cantrell expressed the same sentiment when asked about a new solo album during an interview with Trunk Nation in August 2017, stating that Alice in Chains has always been his number one concern, but that he would not rule out a new solo album in the future.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAMyob2PyJg&t=1011s |title=Jerry Cantrell Interview on Trunk Nation (08/21/2017) - Alice in Chains' new album + solo album |work=YouTube |date=August 31, 2017 |access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref>

In February 2017, Cantrell released his first solo song in 15 years, "[[A Job to Do]]", featured during the end credits of the movie ''[[John Wick: Chapter 2]]''.<ref name="A Job To Do"/> On February 6, 2019, Cantrell performed a two-song acoustic set for BMG's Pre-Grammy Party at the No Name bar in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/margo-price-lights-up-raucous-bmg-grammy-showcase-1203131622/ |title=Margo Price Lights Up Raucous BMG Grammy Showcase |last=Aswad |first=Jem |date=February 7, 2019 |website=Variety}}</ref>

On December 6 and 7, 2019, Cantrell performed two sold-out solo concerts at the Pico Union Project in [[Los Angeles]]. His first solo concerts since 2004. Cantrell performed his solo material along with Alice in Chains' songs and covers of other artists such as [[Elton John]] and [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/see-jerry-cantrell-play-alice-chains-songs-greg-puciato-solo-show |title=See Jerry Cantrell Play Alice in Chains Songs With Greg Puciato at Solo Show |date=December 7, 2019 |website=Revolver Magazine}}</ref> He was joined by [[Greg Puciato]] and [[Terra Lopez]] on vocals, [[Tyler Bates]] on guitar, Johnny Scaglione on acoustic guitar, [[James Lomenzo]] on bass, [[Gil Sharone]] on drums, Jordan Lewis on keyboards and Michael Rozon on pedal steel guitar.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B5yB0-wpaDR/  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B5yB0-wpaDR |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |url-access=registration|title=The most surreal experience of my life (so far). Singing in @jerrycantrell's band... |last=Lopez |first=Terra |date=December 7, 2019 |website=Instagram}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B5y2R9KprHp/  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B5y2R9KprHp |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |url-access=registration|title=Night 2 coming up About to throw down again with @tylerbates @gilsharone @terralopez @jameslomenzo @gregpuciato johnnyscaglione @jordanlewis @michaelrozon |last=Cantrell |first=Jerry |date=December 7, 2019 |website=Instagram}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On January 24, 2020, Cantrell announced that he was working on a new solo album.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-is-working-on-new-solo-record/ |title=ALICE IN CHAINS' JERRY CANTRELL Is Working On New Solo Record |date=February 16, 2020 |website=Blabbermouth}}</ref> He started recording at Dave's Room Recording Studio in North Hollywood, [[California]] on March 10, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://loudwire.com/jerry-cantrell-in-the-studio-for-new-solo-record/ |title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell in the Studio for New Solo Album |date=March 11, 2020 |website=Loudwire}}</ref> On March 4, 2021, he announced via his [[Instagram]] page that he had completed the album, captioning the photo "Finished my [[Phonograph record|record]] tonight one year to the day from when we started recording it. What a crazy journey ... always is. Look forward to setting it free upon your ear holes sometime soon."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.antimusic.com/news/2021/March/06Alice_In_Chains_Jerry_Cantrell_Finishes_New_Solo_Album.shtml |title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell Finishes New Solo Album |date=March 6, 2021 |website=Antimusic}}</ref> On July 28, 2021, Cantrell posted a teaser trailer in his social media announcing that a new song and video titled "Atone" would be released on July 29.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cantrell |first=Jerry |date=July 28, 2021 |title=Tomorrow |url=https://twitter.com/JerryCantrell/status/1420469444665483266 |website=Twitter}}</ref> Cantrell's third solo album is titled ''[[Brighten (album)|Brighten]]'' and was released on October 29, 2021.<ref name="Brighten">{{Cite magazine |date=July 29, 2021 |title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Previews New Solo Album With 'Atone' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jerry-cantrell-new-solo-song-atone-1204030/ |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref>
Cantrell announced a new song, "[[Vilified]]", to be released on July 25, 2024. Cantrell released his fourth solo album titled ''[[I Want Blood]]'' on October 18, 2024

==Collaborations==
===Recordings===

Cantrell has appeared as guest guitarist on several albums and projects, including the [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] album ''[[Blackacidevil]]'' (1996), in which he played on three tracks ("See All You Were", "Come to Silver" and "Hand of Doom"),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Danzig-Danzig-5-Blackacidevil/release/371476 |title=Danzig – Danzig 5: Blackacidevil |website=Discogs |date=October 29, 1996 |access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref> and the [[Metallica]] album ''[[Garage Inc.]]'' (1998) on the band's rendition of [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s "[[Tuesday's Gone]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.metallica.com/releases/albums/4216/garage-inc |title=Garage Inc. |website=Metallica.com |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> He also guested on [[Circus of Power]]'s 1993 album ''Magic & Madness'' for the song "Heaven & Hell", played lead guitar on [[Metal Church]]'s "Gods of a Second Chance" from their 1993 album ''[[Hanging in the Balance]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/39488/Metal-Church-Hanging-in-the-Balance |title=Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance (album review) |date=October 6, 2010 |website=Sputnikmusic |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> and played on the track "Marry Me" from [[Pigeonhed]]'s 1997 album, ''The Full Sentence''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.greatmusic.top/artist/Pigeonhed |title=Pigeonhed |website=Great Music Top |access-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616103944/http://www.greatmusic.top/artist/Pigeonhed |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Cantrell provided background vocals for the track "Effigy" on [[Gov't Mule]]'s 2001 album, ''[[The Deep End, Volume 1]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1444889/jerry-cantrell-bootsy-collins-on-star-studded-govt-mule-lp/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029054042/http://www.mtv.com/news/1444889/jerry-cantrell-bootsy-collins-on-star-studded-govt-mule-lp/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 29, 2014 |title=Jerry Cantrell, Bootsy Collins On Star-Studded Gov't Mule LP |date=January 29, 2001 |website=MTV News |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> He also appears briefly with Warren Haynes in the documentary ''Rising Low'', which documents the work of the band Gov't Mule following the death of bassist Allen Woody.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}

In a May 2001 interview with Metal-is.com, Cantrell revealed that he had written four songs for [[Ozzy Osbourne]].<ref name="Ozzy2001">{{Cite web |url=http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art088.html |title=Taking a Solo Trip |last=Hurta |first= Steve |date=May 14, 2001 |website=Metal-is.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306231057/http://www.adbdesign.com/aic/articles/art088.html |archive-date=March 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> Cantrell, Osbourne, guitarist [[Zakk Wylde]], bassist [[Robert Trujillo]] and drummer [[Mike Bordin]] went to the studio and made some rough demos of those songs.<ref name="Ozzy2001"/>

Cantrell played guitar in the song "Fallen Ones"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,2915044,00.html|title=Jupiters Darling|website=Artist Direct|access-date=November 25, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228040953/http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,2915044,00.html|archive-date=December 28, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> from [[Heart (band)|Heart]]'s 2004 album ''[[Jupiters Darling]]''.<ref name="Fallen Ones">{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Heart-Jupiters-Darling/release/402238|title=Heart – Jupiters Darling|website=Discogs|access-date=November 25, 2017}}</ref>

Cantrell was the lead guitarist in all of the tracks<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-alice-in-chains-guitarist-laying-down-tracks-for-new-ozzy-osbourne-album/|title=Former ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist Laying Down Tracks For New OZZY OSBOURNE Album|website=Blabbermouth|date=August 16, 2004|access-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref> from [[Ozzy Osbourne]]'s 2005 album of cover songs, ''[[Under Cover]]''.<ref name="under cover">{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ozzy-osbourne-recording-lineup-for-under-covers-disc-revealed/|title=OZZY OSBOURNE: Recording Lineup For 'Under Covers' Disc Revealed|website=Blabbermouth|date=February 16, 2005|access-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref> The songs performed by Cantrell were also included on disc four of Osbourne's box set ''[[Prince of Darkness (Ozzy Osbourne album)|Prince of Darkness]]'' (2005).<ref name="under cover"/>

In 2007, Cantrell played guitar on [[Glenn Hughes (English singer)|Glenn Hughes]]'s rendition of [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Misty Mountain Hop]]", featured on Hughes' solo album ''[[Music for the Divine]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/glenn-hughes-cover-of-led-zeppelin-s-misty-mountain-hop-featured-on-australian-divine-cd/ |title=GLENN HUGHES' Cover Of LED ZEPPELIN's 'Misty Mountain Hop' Featured On Australian 'Divine' CD |date=March 2, 2007 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> and played on the track "Soul Ecstacy" off the [[Stevie Salas]]'s album ''The Sun and the Earth: The Essential Stevie Salas, Vol. 1''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stevie Salas – The Sun And The Earth "The Essential Stevie Salas" Vol. 1|url=https://www.discogs.com/Stevie-Salas-The-Sun-And-The-Earth-The-Essential-Stevie-Salas-Vol-1/release/7721434|website=Discogs|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref> He also played guitar on [[Smith & Pyle]]'s debut album, ''It's OK To Be Happy'', released in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exclusive Interview: Shawnee Smith - SMITH AND PYLE|url=http://www.houseofhorrors.com/crypt/pages2/publish/Interviews_20/Exclusive_Interview_Shawnee_Smith_-_SMITH_AND_PYLE_printer.shtml|website=House of Horrors|access-date=August 11, 2017|date=August 11, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222903/http://www.houseofhorrors.com/crypt/pages2/publish/Interviews_20/Exclusive_Interview_Shawnee_Smith_-_SMITH_AND_PYLE_printer.shtml|archive-date=August 11, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Jerry Cantrell and Slash.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Cantrell performing with [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] (background) in 2008]]
In 2010, Cantrell played guitar on the song "Anything" from [[Pearl Aday]]'s debut album, ''[[Little Immaculate White Fox]]''.<ref name="anything">{{Cite web |url=http://iheartguitarblog.com/2010/07/interview-pearl-aday.html |title=INTERVIEW: Pearl Aday |date=July 30, 2010 |website=I Heart Guitar |access-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616103611/http://iheartguitarblog.com/2010/07/interview-pearl-aday.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Aday stated that she thought Cantrell would be a good person to put in some "heartbroken, haunting, crying guitar" on the track.<ref name="anything"/>

Cantrell sings background vocals and does a lead vocal ad-lib in the final chorus of "Love Is Blind" from [[Richie Kotzen]]'s 2011 album, ''[[24 Hours (Richie Kotzen album)|24 Hours]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/richie-kotzen-to-release-24-hours-in-november/ |title=RICHIE KOTZEN To Release '24 Hours' in November |date=August 30, 2011 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref>

He played guitar on [[Duff McKagan]]'s 2015 EP ''How to Be a Man'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/duff-mckagan-to-release-how-to-be-a-man-ep-featuring-izzy-stradlin-jerry-cantrell/|title=DUFF MCKAGAN To Release 'How To Be A Man' EP Featuring IZZY STRADLIN, JERRY CANTRELL|website=Blabbermouth|date=April 29, 2015|access-date=November 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Duff-McKagan-How-To-Be-A-Man/release/9636595|title=Duff McKagan – How To Be A Man|website=Discogs|date=May 12, 2015 |access-date=November 4, 2017}}</ref> and has also collaborated with Alternative Metal band [[Deftones]], contributing guitar parts to the track "Phantom Bride" off their 2016 album ''[[Gore (Deftones album)|Gore]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theprp.com/2015/06/26/news/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-speaks-about-his-deftones-cameo-chino-moreno-calls-new-album-a-challenge/|title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell Speaks About His Deftones Cameo, Chino Moreno Calls New Album "A Challenge"|website=Theprp.com|date=June 26, 2015|access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Phantom Bride">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSycaeY7qi4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/xSycaeY7qi4| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Deftones - Phantom Bride Featuring Jerry Cantrell (Official Audio)|date=April 8, 2016|publisher=YouTube|access-date=October 15, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Live performances===
Cantrell performed a snippet of "Man in the Box" followed by a cover of [[Motörhead]]'s "[[Ace of Spades (song)|Ace of Spades]]" alongside [[Pantera (band)|Pantera]] during their concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum on March 1, 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHvLlQISbOw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/MHvLlQISbOw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Pantera feat. Jerry Cantrell - Man In The Box/Ace of Spades (March 1, 1992, Seattle) |website=YouTube |date=June 14, 2018 |access-date=June 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pantera/1992/seattle-center-coliseum-seattle-wa-2bd22c76.html |title=Pantera Concert Setlist at Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle on March 1, 1992 |website=Setlist.fm |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> Cantrell joined the band again for their performance of "[[Walk (Pantera song)|Walk]]" during a concert in San Jose, California on February 6, 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJIx_uFHE4  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/0TJIx_uFHE4| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Pantera feat. Jerry Cantrell - Walk [LIVE] (February 6, 2001 - San Jose, California) |website=YouTube |date=June 22, 2018 |access-date=July 2, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On October 9, 1994, Cantrell joined [[Metallica]] for a performance of "[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica song)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]" during their concert in Oklahoma City.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn89HYWc_Yc  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/Wn89HYWc_Yc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Metallica - [HD] For Whom The Bell Tolls (with Jerry Cantrell) (1994.08.09) Oklahoma City, USA |date=January 30, 2012 |website=YouTube |access-date=June 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2002, Cantrell played a series of summer dates with headlining rock band [[Nickelback]].<ref name="PopMatters2002"/> Cantrell can be seen playing Alice in Chains' "It Ain't Like That" with the band on their first DVD release, ''[[Live at Home (Nickelback DVD)|Live at Home]]'' (2002).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/nickelback/2002/skyreach-centre-edmonton-ab-canada-1bdd05cc.html |title=Nickelback Concert Setlist at Skyreach Centre, Edmonton on January 25, 2002 |website=Setlist.fm |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> He was also asked by Nickelback's frontman, [[Chad Kroeger]], to contribute to the song "[[Hero (Chad Kroeger song)|Hero]]" for the 2002 film ''[[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]]''. Cantrell was unable to attend the recording session and was replaced by [[Saliva (band)|Saliva]]'s [[Josey Scott]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-skips-nickelback-saliva-collaboration-matt-cameron-steps-in/ |title=JERRY CANTRELL Skips NICKELBACK/SALIVA Collaboration, MATT CAMERON Steps In |date=March 27, 2002 |website=Blabbermouth}}</ref>

Cantrell made several guest appearances with the supergroup [[Camp Freddy]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/scott-weiland-jerry-cantrell-jam-with-camp-freddy-photos-available/ |title=SCOTT WEILAND, JERRY CANTRELL Jam With CAMP FREDDY: Photos Available |date=October 21, 2005 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/camp-freddy-to-be-joined-by-jerry-cantrell-chester-bennington-for-new-year-s-eve-gig/ |title=CAMP FREDDY To Be Joined By JERRY CANTRELL, CHESTER BENNINGTON For New Year's Eve Gig |date=December 18, 2006 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/camp-freddy-joined-by-deftones-alice-in-chains-rage-against-machine-members/ |title=CAMP FREDDY Joined By DEFTONES, ALICE IN CHAINS, RAGE AGAINST MACHINE Members |date=May 23, 2008 |website=Blabbermouth.net |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> (a covers band featuring [[Jane's Addiction]] guitarist [[Dave Navarro]], former [[Guns N' Roses]] drummer [[Matt Sorum]], [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] drummer [[Chad Smith]] and [[Billy Idol]] guitarist [[Billy Morrison]]),<ref name="MTV News 2004">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1484923/jerry-cantrell-to-jam-with-alice-in-chains-bandmates/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115221334/http://www.mtv.com/news/1484923/jerry-cantrell-to-jam-with-alice-in-chains-bandmates/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 15, 2017|title=Jerry Cantrell To Jam With Alice In Chains Bandmates |work=MTV|date=February 8, 2004|access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> performing with them for the first time at [[The Sundance Film Festival]] on January 19, 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/filter-singer-jams-with-jerry-cantrell-camp-freddy-at-sundance-festival/ |title=FILTER Singer Jams With JERRY CANTRELL, CAMP FREDDY At SUNDANCE Festival |date=January 23, 2004 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref>

The experience with Camp Freddy inspired Cantrell and [[The Cult]] guitarist [[Billy Duffy]] to form their own covers band,<ref name="MTV News 2004"/> the rock supergroup Cardboard Vampyres (named after Cantrell's cats).<ref name="Cardboard Vampyres">{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-billy-duffy-talk-about-their-involvement-in-sweet-relief/|title=JERRY CANTRELL, BILLY DUFFY Talk About Their Involvement In SWEET RELIEF|work=Blabbermouth|date=April 8, 2004|access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> Under the moniker of the Jerry Cantrell-Billy Duffy Band, they debuted during the three-concert series for [[Sweet Relief Fund|Sweet Relief Musicians Fund]] at [[The Troubadour (Los Angeles)|The Troubadour]] in April 2004.<ref name="Cardboard Vampyres"/> "This band is really just about having fun and playing tunes that we were fans of growing up," Cantrell stated. Performing mostly cover songs from bands like [[Led Zeppelin]], [[AC/DC]], [[The Stooges]], [[Black Sabbath]], and [[Aerosmith]], the group was rounded out by vocalist [[John Corabi]], bassist [[Chris Wyse]], and drummer Josh Howser.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jeckell |first=Barry A. |url=http://www.glidemagazine.com/6063/jerry-cantrell-forms-new-band-cardboard-vampyres/ |title=Cantrell, Duffy Form Cardboard Vampyres |publisher=Glide Magazine |date=June 18, 2004 |access-date=October 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416180149/http://www.glidemagazine.com/6063/jerry-cantrell-forms-new-band-cardboard-vampyres/ |archive-date=April 16, 2014 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> The band played at various venues in the United States; although, they predominately played along the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/cardboard-vampyres-7bd6aedc.html |title=Cardboard Vampyres Concert Setlists & Tour Dates |website=Setlist.fm |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> No formal albums were released by the band.

Cantrell joined Metallica on backing vocals during their performance of "[[Nothing Else Matters]]" at the Download Festival in Dublin on June 11, 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.metallica.com/tour/10591/2006-06-11-dublin-ireland |title=2006-06-11 Dublin, Ireland - Metallica |website=Metallica.com |access-date=July 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703050803/https://www.metallica.com/tour/10591/2006-06-11-dublin-ireland |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On October 6, 2009, Cantrell joined [[Pearl Jam]] during their concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Cantrell hopped on stage to close out the night with the guitar solo on "[[Alive (Pearl Jam song)|Alive]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/article/2009/10/07/chris-cornell-jerry-cantrell-pearl-jam/ |title=Chris Cornell, Jerry Cantrell join Pearl Jam for impromptu grunge summit in L.A. |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=7 October 2009|access-date=19 June 2017}}</ref> The following night, Cantrell joined the band to perform "[[Kick Out the Jams (song)|Kick Out the Jams]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-joins-pearl-jam-for-kick-out-the-jams-at-l-a-concert/ |title=JERRY CANTRELL Joins PEARL JAM For 'Kick Out The Jams' At L.A. Concert|work=Blabbermouth |date=8 October 2009 |access-date=19 June 2017}}</ref>

Cantrell made a special appearance at a [[Stone Temple Pilots]] concert in [[Camden, New Jersey]], on May 23, 2010, playing guitar during the band's performance of "[[Sex Type Thing]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsVrA0h5PN8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/NsVrA0h5PN8| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing|website=[[YouTube]]|date=May 23, 2010 |access-date=March 18, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On December 9, 2011, Cantrell joined Metallica for their 30th anniversary concert at [[The Fillmore]] in San Francisco and performed the songs "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Nothing Else Matters", "Seek and Destroy" and a cover of [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s "Tuesday's Gone".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rob-halford-glenn-danzig-jerry-cantrell-perform-with-metallica-at-third-30th-anniversary-show/ |title=ROB HALFORD, GLENN DANZIG, JERRY CANTRELL Perform With METALLICA At Third 30th-Anniversary Show|website=Blabbermouth |date=December 10, 2011 |access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref>

On May 12, 2012, Cantrell made a duet with Somar Macek accompanied by the Synergia Northwest Orchestra for a performance of Elton John's "Levon" at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, during a benefit concert for music education in Northwest public schools.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k23CKlKYMSs  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/k23CKlKYMSs| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell & Somar Macek singing "Levon" (Elton John cover) [Seattle, May 12, 2012] |website=YouTube|date=December 14, 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Cantrell performed with Duff McKagan's band [[Walking Papers (band)|The Walking Papers]] during the band's concert at [[The Crocodile]] in Seattle on December 15, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/jerry-cantrell-duff-mckagan-walking-papers-discusses-new-album/|title=Jerry Cantrell Performs With Duff McKagan's Walking Papers, Discusses Alice in Chains Album|work=Loudwire|date=December 20, 2012|access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref>

On April 18, 2013, the Seattle band [[Heart (band)|Heart]] was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]], and Cantrell joined the band onstage for a performance of "[[Crazy on You|Crazy On You]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBq_THTWNM4  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/RBq_THTWNM4| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Crazy On You - Heart - live 2013 |date=October 24, 2013 |website=YouTube |access-date=July 2, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Cantrell alongside [[Pearl Jam]]'s [[Mike McCready]] and [[Soundgarden]]'s [[Chris Cornell]], also played guitar for Heart's hit song "[[Barracuda (song)|Barracuda]]" with [[Ann Wilson|Ann]] and [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]] at the ceremony.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/quincy-jones-heart-honor-seattle-roots-at-rock-hall-induction/|title=Quincy Jones, Heart honor Seattle roots at Rock Hall induction|newspaper=The Seattle Times|date=19 April 2013|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbQbmrWKx4k |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/EbQbmrWKx4k| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Heart – "Barracuda" Live 2013 Rock Hall of Fame Induction Concert
|work=YouTube|date=16 April 2015|access-date=8 July 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
[[File:Jerry Cantrell live 2013.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Cantrell in 2013]]
On November 20, 2015, Cantrell joined [[The Cult]] on stage at the [[Hollywood Palladium]] in Los Angeles to perform the song "The Phoenix".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/video-alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-joins-the-cult-on-stage-in-los-angeles/|title=Video: Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell Joins The Cult On Stage In Los Angeles|website=Blabbermouth|date=November 24, 2015|access-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref> On December 16, 2015, Cantrell joined the supergroup Royal Machines at [[The Roxy Theatre]] in West Hollywood and performed [[Thin Lizzy]]'s "[[Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song)|Jailbreak]]" and Alice in Chains' "Would?" and "Man in the Box".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-sebastian-bach-perform-with-royal-machines-in-hollywood-video/ |title=JERRY CANTRELL, SEBASTIAN BACH Perform With ROYAL MACHINES In Hollywood (Video) |date=December 18, 2016 |website=Blabbermouth |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref>

On March 13, 2017, Cantrell made a guest appearance at [[Steel Panther]]'s concert at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood and performed "Man In The Box" with the band joined by [[Godsmack]] singer [[Sully Erna]] on lead vocals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/steel-panther/2017/the-roxy-west-hollywood-ca-53f92fa5.html |title=Steel Panther Concert Setlist at The Roxy, West Hollywood on March 13, 2017|website=Setlist.fm |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref> On March 25, 2017, Cantrell performed with Nancy Wilson and Mike Inez at the 5th annual Rock Against MS benefit concert.<ref name="Rock Against MS">{{Cite web |url=http://loudwire.com/alice-in-chains-guns-n-roses-heart-rock-against-ms-event/ |title=Members of Alice in Chains, Heart, Guns N' Roses + More Lead 'Rock Against MS' Event in L.A. |website=Loudwire |date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref>

Cantrell was one of the musicians who participated on the Founders Award Celebration honoring [[The Doors]] at Seattle's [[Museum of Pop Culture]] on December 7, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mopop.org/archive/founders-award-the-doors/|title=Founders Award 2017: The Doors - Museum of Pop Culture|work=MoPOP|date=December 21, 2017|access-date=December 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224073753/http://www.mopop.org/archive/founders-award-the-doors/|archive-date=December 24, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cantrell sang "[[Love Her Madly]]" accompanied by The Doors' original guitarist [[Robby Krieger]], keyboardist George Laks, bassist [[Zander Schloss]], and drummer [[Brian Young (drummer)|Brian Young]].<ref name="Founders Award 2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9PnF5M5bSl0-hQefU9Lxx-3D6tNn8eNk|title=Jerry Cantrell singing The Doors (MoPOP's Founders Award - December 7, 2017)|work=YouTube|access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> He came back at the end of the concert to sing "[[Roadhouse Blues]]" together with all the artists who performed at the tribute.<ref name="Founders Award 2017"/>

On December 8, 2017, Cantrell joined The Hellcat Saints (a supergroup featuring members of [[The Cult]], [[Velvet Revolver]], [[Weezer]] and [[Apocalyptica]]), to open for [[Jane's Addiction]] at the third annual Rhonda's Kiss benefit concert at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the concert benefited the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and further the mission of Rhonda's Kiss, an organization that helps cancer patients in need.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/the-hellcat-saints-supergroup-feat-alice-in-chains-the-cult-members-added-to-rhondas-kiss-benefit-concert/|title=THE HELLCAT SAINTS Supergroup Feat. ALICE IN CHAINS, THE CULT Members Added To 'Rhonda's Kiss' Benefit Concert|website=Blabbermouth|date=November 28, 2017|access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref> Cantrell performed Alice in Chains' hits "Would?" and "Man in the Box", and sang Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak".<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/aic/jerry-will-play-a-benefit-concert-w-the-hellcat-sa-t5175.html?sid=47c2f07634f13a84c00e876e3aa7e98b#p251138 Jerry Cantrell will play a benefit concert with The Hellcat Saints at the Palladium on December 8th]</ref>

On January 16, 2019, Cantrell along with William DuVall, Pearl Jam's guitarist [[Stone Gossard]] and bassist [[Jeff Ament]], and drummer [[Josh Freese]] performed Soundgarden's "[[Hunted Down]]" at the Chris Cornell tribute concert "I Am the Highway".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/chris-cornell-soundgarden-tribute-show-780340/ |title=Chris Cornell's Passion Dominates Star-Studded Tribute Show |last=Grow |first=Kory |date=January 17, 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=February 12, 2019}}</ref>

==Soundtrack contributions==
Cantrell's song "Leave Me Alone" was featured in the 1996 dark comedy ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' and can be found on that movie's soundtrack.<ref name="guitar school"/> "She Was My Girl" from ''Degradation Trip'' was included on the ''[[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]]'' (2002) [[Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man|soundtrack]].<ref name="spider-man">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1453316/spider-man-theme-to-come-courtesy-of-aerosmith/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204183728/http://www.mtv.com/news/1453316/spider-man-theme-to-come-courtesy-of-aerosmith/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 4, 2014|title='Spider-Man' Theme To Come Courtesy Of Aerosmith|work=MTV News|date=April 8, 2002|access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref>

Cantrell returned to the movie scene in 2004 to write, with the newly formed metal band [[Damageplan]], the song "Ashes to Ashes" for the movie ''[[The Punisher (2004 film)|The Punisher]]''. The song features Cantrell sharing lead vocals with Damageplan singer [[Patrick Lachman]],<ref name="MTV News 2004"/> and it can be found on that movie's soundtrack, and as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Damageplan's debut album, ''[[New Found Power]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/damageplan-s-collaboration-with-jerry-cantrell-confirmed-for-punisher-soundtrack/|title=DAMAGEPLAN's Collaboration With JERRY CANTRELL Confirmed For 'Punisher' Soundtrack |work=Blabbermouth|date=February 25, 2004|access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref>

In February 2017, Cantrell released the song "A Job to Do", the end-title song to ''[[John Wick: Chapter 2]]''. Cantrell wrote the lyrics from the perspective of [[Keanu Reeves]]' title character.<ref name="A Job To Do">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7685304/jerry-cantrell-a-job-to-do-john-wick-chapter-2-exclusive |title=Jerry Cantrell Shares 'A Job To Do' From 'John Wick' Sequel |magazine=Billboard |date=9 February 2017 |access-date=19 June 2017}}</ref> Cantrell said in a statement: "I really dug ''[[John Wick (film)|John Wick]]'' and have always admired Keanu's work. When the opportunity arose to create a song for the second film, [[Tyler Bates]] and I wrote and recorded 'A Job To Do', a theme song for the character. Can't wait to see it!".<ref>{{cite web|title=Listen To ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist JERRY CANTRELL's New Solo Song 'A Job To Do'|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/listen-to-alice-in-chains-guitarist-jerry-cantrells-new-solo-song-a-job-to-do/|website=Blabbermouth|access-date=July 31, 2017|date=February 9, 2017}}</ref>

On July 19, 2018, Cantrell released the song "[[Setting Sun (Jerry Cantrell song)|Setting Sun]]" for the soundtrack of [[DC Comics]]' graphic novel ''[[Dark Nights: Metal]]''. The song was released as a single in digital platforms.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theprp.com/2018/07/19/news/hear-alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-on-new-song-setting-sun-from-new-dark-nights-metal-soundtrack/ |title=Hear Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell On New Song "Setting Sun" From New 'Dark Nights: Metal' Soundtrack |date=July 19, 2018 |website=Theprp.com}}</ref>

==Style==
Cantrell's early influences made Alice in Chains' heavy metal tones stand out among their fellow grunge/alternative rock-oriented bands of the [[Grunge|Seattle music scene]]. However, his musical range also extends into elements of [[blues]] and [[country music|country]] as heard on his solo debut album. Cantrell's guitar playing is known for its unique use of [[wah pedal]] as well as [[odd time signature]]s. In a 1998 interview with ''[[Guitar World]]'', he was asked about the latter quality:

{{blockquote|I really don't know where that comes from; it just comes naturally to me. I could sit down and figure it out, but what's the use? Off-time stuff is just more exciting – it takes people by surprise when you shift gears like that before they even know what the hell hit 'em. It's also effective when you slow something down and then slam 'em into the dash. A lot of Alice stuff is written that way – "[[Them Bones]]" is a great off-time song.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/archive-jerry-cantrell-his-first-solo-album-and-state-alice-chains|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|title=Jerry Cantrell on His First Solo Album and the State of Alice In Chains|access-date=March 23, 2015}}</ref>}}

==Equipment==
[[File:Jerry06.jpg|thumb|Cantrell with the original "Blue Dress" G&L guitar during an Alice in Chains concert in 2006]]
Cantrell has been most famously seen playing a [[G&L Musical Instruments|G&L Guitars']] Rampage model. The two models most closely identified with Cantrell are instruments manufactured in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell's Guitars and Gear|url=https://www.groundguitar.com/jerry-cantrell-gear/|website=GroundGuitar|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref> They feature a maple body, maple neck and ebony fingerboard. The bridge is a Kahler Tremolo as opposed to a [[Floyd Rose]] tremolo which was commonly seen on instruments made throughout the 1980s and 90s.<ref>{{cite web|title=G&L Guitars Exclusive Interview with Jerry Cantrell|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T9tY1ioKQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/w6T9tY1ioKQ| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|work=YouTube|date=April 22, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The guitars feature a single-bridge humbucker wired to a volume control.

G&L Guitars makes two Jerry Cantrell Signature guitars available to the general public for purchase. The first is a Rampage model which is very similar to the instrument most closely identified with Cantrell, known as the "Blue Dress Rampage" for having an image of a vintage pin-up girl wearing a blue dress, which Cantrell taped to the top of his first guitar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/usa/customcreations/blue-dress-signature-rampage.asp|title=Jerry Cantrell "Blue Dress" Rampage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705134639/http://glguitars.com/instruments/usa/customcreations/blue-dress-signature-rampage.asp|archive-date=July 5, 2011|url-status=dead|work=G&L Musical Instruments}}</ref> The second is a guitar called the 'Superhawk'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rampage™ Jerry Cantrell|url=http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/TributeSeries/guitars/Rampage/index.asp|access-date=May 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513233709/http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/tributeseries/guitars/Rampage/index.asp|archive-date=May 13, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> This guitar features a fixed bridge and the addition of a neck pickup.<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: G&L Tribute Series Jerry Cantrell Signature Superhawk Guitar|date=July 24, 2013|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/magazine-electrics-gear-news/review-gl-tribute-series-jerry-cantrell-signature-superhawk-guitar}}</ref>

Cantrell used the original "Blue Dress" guitar on the music videos for "[[Man in the Box]]",<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice In Chains - Man in the Box (Official Video)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqZb52sgpU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/TAqZb52sgpU| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube| date=October 25, 2009 |access-date=July 31, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> "[[We Die Young]]",<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice In Chains - We Die Young|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JA25BIxgtk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/6JA25BIxgtk| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube| date=October 25, 2009 |access-date=August 2, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> "[[Sea of Sorrow]]",<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice In Chains - Sea Of Sorrow|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbrANo-1QMQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/kbrANo-1QMQ| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube| date=October 25, 2009 |access-date=July 31, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> "[[Grind (song)|Grind]]",<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice In Chains - Grind|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83gddxVpitc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/83gddxVpitc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube| date=October 25, 2009 |access-date=July 31, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and "[[Again (Alice in Chains song)|Again]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice In Chains - Again|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__biilMpnmw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/__biilMpnmw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube| date=October 25, 2009 |access-date=July 31, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The guitar can also be seen in the movie ''[[Singles (1992 film)|Singles]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice in Chains - Would? [Singles Blu Ray Rip]|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMJmsl084II| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029053702/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMJmsl084II| archive-date=2017-10-29 | url-status=dead|access-date=August 7, 2017}}</ref> In 2011, Cantrell revealed that he had to retire the guitar due to a hairline crack from the neck all the way through the back of the body. Before that, he had never gone on tour without it.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dear Guitar Hero: Jerry Cantrell|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/dear-guitar-hero-jerry-cantrell|website=Guitar World|date=June 13, 2011|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref>

Apart from his signature G&L Guitars, Cantrell has also been seen playing a [[Fender Telecaster|Telecaster]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZtDPmxFhTg  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/BZtDPmxFhTg| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Chris Cornell Tribute BLACK HOLE SUN by Ann Wilson/Jerry Cantrell |date=April 14, 2018 |website=YouTube |access-date=May 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> a [[Fender Stratocaster|Fender Standard Stratocaster Brown Sunburst]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQExlqz6slk  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/RQExlqz6slk| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell - Leave Me Alone |website=YouTube |date=March 5, 2016 |access-date=May 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> a [[Gibson Les Paul]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://equipboard.com/pros/jerry-cantrell/gibson-les-paul-studio-duplicate--3 |title=Jerry Cantrell's Gibson Les Paul Studio (Duplicate) |website=Equipboard |access-date=May 3, 2018}}</ref><ref name="equipment">{{cite web|title=Interview: Jerry Cantrell - Playing Dumb|url=https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Interview_Jerry_Cantrell_%E2%80%93_Playing_Dumb?page=2}}</ref> most notably an Ivory White Les Paul with torch burn marks that Cantrell made all over the guitar, which is the guitar that Cantrell has used on all of the Alice in Chains albums along with the original Blue Dress G&L.<ref name="equipment"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jerry-cantrell-facelift |title=Jerry Cantrell: Facelift |date=January 5, 2010 |website=Guitar World}}</ref> Also a Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIhfoUpJXus  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/PIhfoUpJXus| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Man in the Box with Jerry Cantrell playing a Gibson SG. at the Gibson Summer Jam 2008. Nashville TN |website=YouTube |date=May 23, 2015 |access-date=May 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="equipment"/> a 1952 Goldtop Les Paul,<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 1, 2009 |title=The Making of Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue |url=http://mixonline.com/recording/tracking/alice-in-chains-0909/index2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908061937/http://mixonline.com/recording/tracking/alice-in-chains-0909/index2.html |archive-date=September 8, 2009 |access-date=May 3, 2018 |website=Mix Online |df=mdy-all}}</ref> an Ernie Ball Music Man EVH<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nemi72/8697148066/sizes/o/ |title=Jerry Cantrell Shares The Tales Behind Some of The Most Treasured Pieces In His Arsenal |date=June 2013 |work=Guitar World |access-date=May 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXmZRup_nM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/AOXmZRup_nM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains Would Live Jools Holland 5 1993 |website=[[YouTube]] |date=March 29, 2018 |access-date=May 4, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> that was a gift from [[Eddie Van Halen]] in the 1990s, but has been stolen from Cantrell,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3WAJ9L4hc&t=4m56s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/LK3WAJ9L4hc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Interview: Jerry Cantrell talks lost guitars, weirdest gigs and more |date=November 7, 2013 |website=YouTube |access-date=May 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> a dark blue [[Mosrite|Mosrite Ventures]] model,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXIk45pL0o&t=1m6s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/qKXIk45pL0o| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains - What the Hell Have I |website=YouTube |date=October 25, 2009 |access-date=May 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> a [[Dean Guitars|Dean Michael Schenker USA V]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.deanguitars.com/jerrycantrell/pages/ |title=Jerry Cantrell and Dean Guitars |website=Dean Guitars |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503190306/http://www.deanguitars.com/jerrycantrell/pages/ |archive-date=May 3, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Dean Soltero]] guitars.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.deanguitars.com/summer06/soltero.htm |title=Jerry Cantrell and the New Dean USA Soltero! |website=Dean Guitars |date=Summer 2006|access-date=May 3, 2018}}</ref> The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH Guitar that was stolen in 2001 was returned to him and made an appearance at a gig in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8nUFlbfiak|title = Jerry Cantrell's stolen Eddie van Halen guitar explained in 2013 & returned and played live 2018|website = [[YouTube]]| date=May 28, 2018 }}</ref>

Cantrell used a variety of amplifiers such as those made by [[Bogner Amplification|Bogner]], [[Mesa Boogie]] and [[Marshall Amplification|Marshall]] throughout his career.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rig Rundown - Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell|date=September 29, 2009|url=https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Rig_Rundown_Alice_in_Chains_Jerry_Cantrell}}</ref> He has most recently been using a signature amp called the, 'JJ100' made for him by [[Friedman Amplification]].<ref>{{cite web|title=JERRY CANTRELL SIGNATURE|url=http://friedmanamplification.com/heads/jj-100-jerry-cantrell-signature-head|access-date=May 24, 2017|archive-date=July 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721085632/https://friedmanamplification.com/heads/jj-100-jerry-cantrell-signature-head|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2010, [[Dunlop Manufacturing|Jim Dunlop]] introduced the "[[Dunlop Cry Baby|JC95 Cantrell Signature Cry Baby]]", Cantrell's signature Cry Baby [[wah pedal]],<ref name="cry baby">{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell Signature Crybaby Wah Pedal: First look|url=http://www.musicradar.com/totalguitar/jerry-cantrell-signature-crybaby-wah-pedal-first-look-248450|website=MusicRadar|access-date=July 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727224305/http://www.musicradar.com/totalguitar/jerry-cantrell-signature-crybaby-wah-pedal-first-look-248450|archive-date=July 27, 2017|date=February 10, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=JC95 Cantrell Signature Cry Baby|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrDdtsKzIY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/kPrDdtsKzIY| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube|access-date=July 27, 2017|date=June 6, 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> based on the original Jimi Hendrix Wah pedal that Cantrell used since his early days.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/jerry-cantrell-alice-in-chains |title=Jerry Cantrell Alice In Chains |last=Jones |first=Deirdre |date=February 1, 2010 |website=Guitar Player}}</ref> The lyrics to "[[Black Gives Way to Blue (song)|Black Gives Way to Blue]]" are printed on the base plate of the pedal.<ref name="cry baby"/> In 2013, a limited edition of the pedal was released in black and red featuring the cover artwork for the album ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'', and the lyrics to "[[Stone (Alice in Chains song)|Stone]]" on the bottom.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JC95SE--dunlop-jc95se-jerry-cantrell-special-edition-crybaby-wah |title=Dunlop JC95SE Jerry Cantrell Special Edition Crybaby Wah |date=2013 |website=Sweetwater}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://imgur.com/gallery/hrtHvzm |title=Dunlop JC95SE Jerry Cantrell Limited Edition Cry Baby Wah Pedal Only 250 Were Made |website=Imgur |access-date=April 30, 2019}}</ref> In January 2019, Dunlop released a new version of the pedal, with a design based on Cantrell's tribal orca tattoo created by Coast Salish artist Joe Wilson, and lyrics for the Alice in Chains song "Rainier Fog" on the bottom plate.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/jc95b-7-10137-06934-3.do?ecList=&ecCategory= |title=Jerry Cantrell Cry Baby Wah JC95B |website=jimdunlop.com |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312065215/https://www.jimdunlop.com/product/jc95b-7-10137-06934-3.do?ecList=&ecCategory= |archive-date=March 12, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Guitars===
* 1984 G&L "No War" Rampage<ref name="equipment"/>
* 1985 G&L "Blue Dress" Rampage<ref name="equipment"/>
* Gibson Les Paul Custom<ref name="equipment"/>
* Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG<ref name="equipment"/>
* G&L Jerry Cantrell signature Rampage prototype<ref name="equipment"/>
* Gibson Flying V 2018 Aged Cherry<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://equipboard.com/pros/jerry-cantrell/friedman-jerry-cantrell-signature-100w-hand-wired-tube-guitar-head |title=Friedman Jerry Cantrell Signature 100W Hand Wired Tube Guitar Head |website=Equipboard}}</ref>
* Gibson Explorer
* Ernie Ball Music Man EVH Model - Given to Jerry by Eddie

===Amps===
* Bogner Shiva<ref name="equipment"/>
* Bogner Fish preamp<ref name="equipment"/>
* 2 Friedman Amplification BE100 Brown Eye heads<ref name="equipment"/>
* Friedman JJ-100 Jerry Cantrell Signature 100W Hand Wired Tube Guitar Head<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://equipboard.com/pros/jerry-cantrell/gibson-flying-v-2018 |title=Jerry * Cantrell and Gibson Flying V 2018 Aged Cherry |website=Equipboard}}</ref>

===Effects===
* Dunlop Jerry Cantrell signature Cry Baby wah<ref name="equipment"/>
* MXR EVH117 Flanger<ref name="equipment"/>
* MXR Bass Octave Deluxe<ref name="equipment"/>
* MXR Smart Gate<ref name="equipment"/>
* Xotic Effects AC Plus<ref name="equipment"/>
* Eventide TimeFactor<ref name="equipment"/>
* Boss CH-1 Super Chorus<ref name="equipment"/>
* Boss CE-3 Chorus<ref name="equipment"/>
* Ibanez TS808HW Tube Screamer<ref name="equipment"/>

==Legacy==
Cantrell is widely considered to be one of the greatest rock guitarists of his generation. [[Pantera]] and [[Damageplan]] guitarist [[Dimebag Darrell]] expressed his admiration for Cantrell's guitar work in an interview for ''Guitar International'' in 1995, saying that "the layering and the honest feel that Jerry Cantrell gets on [Alice in Chains' ''Dirt''] record is worth a lot more than someone who plays five million notes".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2010/08/20/diamond-dimebag-darrell-the-pantera-interview/ |title=Diamond "Dimebag" Darrell: The Pantera Interview |publisher=Guitar International |date=September 1995 |access-date=June 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111121852/http://guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2010/08/20/diamond-dimebag-darrell-the-pantera-interview/ |archive-date=January 11, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In July 2006, British hard rock/metal magazine ''[[Metal Hammer]]'' awarded Cantrell the title of "Riff Lord" at its annual [[Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards]] show, held at the [[London Astoria]].<ref name="riff lord">{{cite web|url=http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/article/?id=44410 |title=Golden Gods Awards Winners |work=Metal Hammer Magazine |access-date=November 13, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209200931/http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/article/?id=44410 |archive-date=December 9, 2006 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> He was apparently thrilled at winning the title over several famous artists such as [[Slash (musician)|Slash]], [[James Hetfield]], and [[Jimmy Page]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/trivium-in-flames-opeth-among-metal-hammer-golden-gods-nominees/ |title=TRIVIUM, IN FLAMES, OPETH Among METAL HAMMER GOLDEN GODS Nominees |work=Blabbermouth |date=April 12, 2006 |access-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref>

He was ranked 38th out of 100 Greatest [[Heavy metal music|Heavy Metal]] Guitarists of All Time by ''[[Guitar World]]'' in 2004,<ref name="heavy metal guitarists">{{cite news |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/guitar-world-s-100-greatest-heavy-metal-guitarists-of-all-time/ |title=Guitar World's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time |work=[[Blabbermouth.net|Blabbermouth]] |access-date=October 17, 2012 |date=January 23, 2004 |archive-date=September 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905122448/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/guitar-world-s-100-greatest-heavy-metal-guitarists-of-all-time/ |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and ranked at No. 37 out of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" also by ''Guitar World'' in 2012.<ref name="all time guitarists">{{cite magazine|date=October 10, 2012 |url=http://www.guitarworld.com/readers-poll-results-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time#slide-63 |title=The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time |magazine=[[Guitar World]] |access-date=October 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131228/http://www.guitarworld.com/readers-poll-results-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time#slide-63 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>

In October 2008, ''Guitar World'' ranked Cantrell's solo in "Man in the Box" at No. 77 on its list of "100 Greatest Guitar Solos".<ref name="guitar solo">{{Cite web |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/100-greatest-guitar-solos-51-100 |title=100 Greatest Guitar Solos |date=October 30, 2008 |website=Guitar World |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> Cantrell was ranked at No. 98 on the list of the "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time" by Envision Radio Networks' "Chop Shop" guitar show in December 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jimmy-page-jimi-hendrix-eddie-van-halen-steve-vai-among-chop-shop-s-top-guitarists/ |title=JIMMY PAGE, JIMI HENDRIX, EDDIE VAN HALEN, STEVE VAI Among 'Chop Shop''s Top Guitarists |work=Blabbermouth |date=December 17, 2008 |access-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref>

[[Elton John]] stated in a 2009 interview with ''Rolling Stone'' that he's been an admirer of Cantrell for quite some time, and couldn't resist the offer to play on Alice in Chains' song "[[Black Gives Way to Blue (song)|Black Gives Way to Blue]]" at Cantrell's request.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/elton-john-joins-alice-in-chains-new-album-to-honor-layne-staley-20090811|title=Elton John Joins Alice in Chains' New Album to Honor Layne Staley|date=August 11, 2009|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 16, 2018|archive-date=September 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919144322/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/elton-john-joins-alice-in-chains-new-album-to-honor-layne-staley-20090811|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Guns N' Roses]] guitarist [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] stated in a 2010 interview with [[Epiphone|Epiphone.com]] that Cantrell is one of the most inspiring lead guitar players that have come out in the last 20 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epiphone.com/news-features/news/2010/an-interview-with-slash.aspx |title=An Interview With Slash |work=Epiphone |date=September 14, 2010 |access-date=August 26, 2019 |archive-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725144228/http://www.epiphone.com/news-features/news/2010/an-interview-with-slash.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In a 2015 interview with [[Loudwire]] discussing five of his essential guitar albums, [[Slayer (band)|Slayer]] guitarist [[Kerry King]] said about Cantrell:
{{blockquote|Cantrell did the harmonies with Layne, and they were haunting, especially on ''[[Dirt (Alice in Chains album)|Dirt]]''. Those two guys really had their thing figured out. Guitar-wise, Jerry's playing was always exciting and interesting. "[[Them Bones]]" is a heavy f---ing song. Jerry's tone on that one is insane. The title track has a really ominous intro that sets the mood for the rest of the song. So many great guitar riffs and solo performances on this record. Jerry's a really solid blues-rock guitarist, very tasteful and emotive.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://loudwire.com/slayer-kerry-king-five-essential-guitar-albums/ |title=Slayer's Kerry King Reveals Five of His Essential Guitar Albums |date=August 19, 2015 |website=Loudwire |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref>}}

In 2016, Blend Guitar ranked Cantrell at No. 7 on its list of "Top 10 Underrated Guitarists",<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4G1HVqOaU&t=54s | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008155018/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4G1HVqOaU&t=54s| archive-date=2020-10-08 | url-status=dead|title=Top 10 Underrated Guitarists |date=April 1, 2016 |website=YouTube |access-date=August 24, 2018}}</ref> and Loudwire ranked him at No. 38 on its list of "The 66 Best Hard Rock + Metal Guitarists of All Time".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://loudwire.com/top-hard-rock-metal-guitarists-of-all-time/ |title=The 66 Best Hard Rock + Metal Guitarists of All Time |date=July 13, 2016 |website=Loudwire}}</ref>

In 2018, Cantrell was named "Guitarist of the Year" by [[Ultimate Guitar]]'s readers poll.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/ug_awards_top_15_guitarists_of_the_year-83733 |title=UG Awards: Top 15 Guitarists of the Year |date=December 24, 2018 |website=Ultimate Guitar |access-date=February 12, 2019}}</ref> Cantrell and William DuVall were also tied at No. 10 on [[Total Guitar]]/[[MusicRadar]]'s "15 best rock guitarists in the world right now" poll.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-15-best-rock-guitarists-in-the-world-right-now |title=The 15 best rock guitarists in the world right now |date=December 24, 2018 |website=MusicRadar |access-date=February 12, 2019}}</ref>

==Other ventures==
Between 2009 and 2010, Cantrell co-owned a hard rock bar called Dead Man's Hand in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] with [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] guitarist [[Scott Ian]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/jerry-cantrell-and-scott-ian-open-las-vegas-bar/ |title=Jerry Cantrell And Scott Ian Open Las Vegas Bar! |magazine=[[Metal Hammer]] |date=October 15, 2009 |archive-date=January 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109032033/http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/jerry-cantrell-and-scott-ian-open-las-vegas-bar/ |url-status=dead |access-date=December 12, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgumCXdGmxs&t=1h7m2s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/TgumCXdGmxs| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Rock Royalty Night! - S1 E3 Poker Night Live! |website=YouTube|date=April 24, 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2011, Cantrell appeared on a spot for NADCP, the [[National Association of Drug Court Professionals]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY8Jw7c53C0  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/kY8Jw7c53C0| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Rockstars All Rise to say No More... |date=April 6, 2011 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2012, Cantrell's voice was featured on a smoking policy ad at the [[Seattle–Tacoma International Airport|Sea-Tac Airport]] in Seattle.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://loudwire.com/jerry-cantrell-appears-in-smoking-policy-ad-at-sea-tac-airport/ |title=Jerry Cantrell Appears in Smoking Policy Ad at Sea-Tac Airport |date=January 25, 2012 |website=Loudwire}}</ref>

On May 18, 2019, it was announced that Cantrell will compose the score for Shane Dax Taylor's upcoming sci-fi film, ''Salvage''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2019/05/18/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-to-score-shane-dax-taylors-salvage/ |title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell to Score Shane Dax Taylor's 'Salvage' |date=May 18, 2019 |website=Film Music Reporter}}</ref>

On January 17, 2020, Cantrell officially joined [[Gibson (guitar company)|Gibson]] as a brand ambassador.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/namm-2020-jerry-cantrell-joins-gibson |title=NAMM 2020: Jerry Cantrell joins Gibson |last=Horsley |first=Jonathan |date=January 17, 2020 |website=Music Radar}}</ref>

===Acting===
In his teens, Cantrell was acting in lead roles in high school plays.<ref name="To Hell and Back"/> In a 1998 Q&A, Cantrell revealed that acting has always been an interest to him.<ref name="Q & A"/>

Cantrell is featured in the 1992 movie ''[[Singles (1992 film)|Singles]]'', along with the rest of Alice in Chains performing the songs "It Ain't Like That" and "[[Would?]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-alice-in-chains-soundgardens-extended-singles-performances-20150623 |title=Watch Alice in Chains', Soundgarden's Extended 'Singles' Performances |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=23 June 2015 |access-date=20 July 2017 |archive-date=June 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611085026/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-alice-in-chains-soundgardens-extended-singles-performances-20150623 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the early 1990s, Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates Layne Staley and Mike Starr were featured on the music video "Never a Know, But the No", from the Seattle thrash metal band [[Forced Entry (band)|Forced Entry]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4auXfp90eTE&t=2m48s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/4auXfp90eTE| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Forced Entry - Never A Know, But The No |website=YouTube |date=March 27, 2007 |access-date=August 24, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1995, Cantrell played journalist Nona Weisbaum on the Alice in Chains mockumentary ''[[The Nona Tapes]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Ohyj8FmLo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/v0Ohyj8FmLo| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains - The Nona Tapes|publisher=YouTube|date=19 June 2017|access-date=18 July 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1996, he had a cameo in [[Cameron Crowe]]'s ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' playing "Jesus of CopyMat", the CopyMat worker who helped [[Tom Cruise]]'s character make copies of his manifesto.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.axs.com/alice-in-chains-guitarist-jerry-cantrell-has-lived-a-diverse-career-41471 |title=Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has lived a diverse career |website=AXS |date=20 February 2015 |access-date=4 July 2017}}</ref> Cantrell said about the film; "I get more people coming up to me telling me my line. It was such a big movie and it was really fun to do."<ref name="Q & A"/> Cantrell was also Crowe's first choice for the role of Stillwater bass player Larry Fellows in ''[[Almost Famous]]'' (2000), but he was busy writing the songs for his solo album ''Degradation Trip'' and had to turn the role down. [[Mark Kozelek]] was cast instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTdrygi97Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/sLTdrygi97Q| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell almost starred in the movie 'Almost Famous' |work=YouTube|date=November 12, 2017|access-date=November 24, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

He also had a cameo as himself in the 2009 film noir comedy ''[[Rock Slyde]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/jerry-cantrell-cameo-in-rock-slyde |title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell's Cameo in 'Rock Slyde' (2009) |publisher=Wayback Machine|date=June 30, 2009|access-date=July 2, 2019}}</ref> appeared on the background of two scenes from the first episode of season three of the [[HBO]] TV series ''[[Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood]]'' in 2006,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-83ayOEtpM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/F-83ayOEtpM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell and Pantera's Rex Brown in Deadwood Season 3, Episode 1 |date=June 4, 2019 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and made a cameo in ''[[Deadwood: The Movie]]'' in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOc63DbbMI4  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/YOc63DbbMI4| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell's Cameo in Deadwood: The Movie (2019) |date=June 4, 2019 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2013, Cantrell played country singer Donnie "Skeeter" Dollarhide Jr. on the Alice in Chains mockumentary ''[[Alice in Chains: AIC 23|AIC 23]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/alice-in-chains-in-devilishly-funny-spoof-8568326.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/alice-in-chains-in-devilishly-funny-spoof-8568326.html |archive-date=June 8, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Alice in Chains in devilishly funny spoof |website=The Independent |date=12 April 2013 |access-date=4 July 2017}}</ref>

In 2018, Cantrell played Terry, a plumber who plays bass in a garage band in the short film ''Dad Band'', co-starring [[W. Earl Brown]]. Cantrell also composed the film score along with [[Carl Restivo]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theprp.com/2018/06/15/news/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-joins-a-dad-band-in-new-short-film/ |title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell Joins A Dad Band In New Short Film |date=June 15, 2018 |website=Theprp.com |access-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Cantrell was homeless in the early 1990s and lived for some time at the house of [[Pearl Jam]]'s manager Kelly Curtis. While living in the basement of Curtis' house, Cantrell was roommates with Pearl Jam lead singer [[Eddie Vedder]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmA48eau1lo  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/bmA48eau1lo| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell and Eddie Vedder were roommates in Seattle |date=March 26, 2018 |website=YouTube |access-date=April 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At the start of 1991, Cantrell moved in with Soundgarden lead singer [[Chris Cornell]] and his then-wife [[Susan Silver]] at their house in Seattle. Silver was also Alice in Chains' manager.<ref name="rooster story" /> Cantrell wrote the song "Rooster" at the Cornells' house and stayed there for a few weeks.<ref name="rooster story" /> Cantrell would later pay tribute to Cornell during the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] ceremony on April 14, 2018, joining singer [[Ann Wilson]] for a rendition of Soundgarden's "[[Black Hole Sun]]".<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/heart-alice-in-chains-chris-cornell-soundgarden-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-w519122 |title=See Ann Wilson, Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Salute Chris Cornell at Rock Hall of Fame |date=April 14, 2018 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=April 15, 2018 |archive-date=April 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415061655/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/heart-alice-in-chains-chris-cornell-soundgarden-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-w519122 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Alice in Chains also paid tribute to Cornell on the one year anniversary of his death on May 18, 2018. The band covered two Soundgarden songs, "[[Hunted Down]]" and "[[Down on the Upside|Boot Camp]]", closing their headlining set at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio. Towards the end of "Boot Camp", the lights on stage spelled out "CC" for Chris Cornell and "SG" for Soundgarden as feedback rang out.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://loudwire.com/watch-alice-in-chains-cover-soundgarden-at-rock-on-the-range-2/ |title=Watch Alice in Chains Cover Soundgarden at Rock on the Range |date=May 19, 2018 |website=Loudwire |access-date=July 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aliceinchainsofficial.tumblr.com/post/174043211170/columbus-oh-may-18th |title=Columbus, OH - May 18th|date=May 19, 2018 |website=Backstage with The Baldy |access-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522141322/http://aliceinchainsofficial.tumblr.com/post/174043211170/columbus-oh-may-18th |archive-date=May 22, 2018 }}</ref>

Cantrell lived in [[Monroe, Washington]], from the mid-1990s until the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XacyBudpcQ&t=772s | title=Hubba Hubba on Tattooing Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & More &#124; IANO #051 | website=[[YouTube]] | date=April 10, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jerry Cantrell Unchained - World Radio History |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/00s/02/RR-2002-05-17-OCR-Page-0077.pdf}}</ref> He has lived in [[Studio City, Los Angeles|Studio City]], California, since 2003, and he has maintained a residence in [[Burien, Washington|Burien]], Washington since 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beale |first=Lauren |date=September 9, 2013 |title=Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains sells Studio City home |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-jerry-cantrell-20130909-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwZfBFdCVU | title=Jerry Cantrell's Acceptance Speech - MusiCares Stevie Ray Vaughan Award Club Nokia 5-31-12 |website=[[YouTube]] |date=June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist Sells California Home For $1.45 Million |date=September 7, 2013 |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-sells-california-home-for-1-45-million}}</ref>

=== Friendship with Layne Staley ===
Cantrell was a close friend of late Alice in Chains' lead singer [[Layne Staley]], who was described by Cantrell as his best friend.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell: "Layne Staley Is My Best Friend"|website = [[YouTube]]| date=December 8, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOlfR-tHADk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/DOlfR-tHADk| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=December 26, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Staley died on April 5, 2002, at the same time of Cantrell's ''[[Degradation Trip]]'' tour, but Cantrell opted not to cancel any shows, stating, "It's difficult to do interviews - it's hard to talk about it [Staley's death]. I'm just thankful to have a tour and work - something I can focus on."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Farber|first1=Jim|title=Cantrell breaks his chains with new CD|url=http://www.timesonline.com/cantrell-breaks-his-chains-with-new-cd/article_0c7f5d2e-88ea-5e89-9b86-d926c1c46104.html|website=The Times|access-date=August 11, 2017|date=June 30, 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803051719/http://www.timesonline.com/cantrell-breaks-his-chains-with-new-cd/article_0c7f5d2e-88ea-5e89-9b86-d926c1c46104.html|archive-date=August 3, 2017|df=mdy-all}}</ref> "The shows I played between the time I got the word about Layne and Layne's funeral were very important to me in terms of being able to continue on. It's one of those things where if you take a break and allow things to settle in, it might be harder to get up again."<ref name="seattlepi.com 2002"/> Cantrell's manager at the time, Bill Siddons, said that Jerry really loved Layne and they had a bond he hadn't seen before.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fans mourn death of Alice in Chains singer|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Fans-mourn-death-of-Alice-in-Chains-singer-1085691.php|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=August 11, 2017|date=April 19, 2002}}</ref> Asked about Staley's death in an interview with [[MTV]] in July 2002, Cantrell said: "It's something I'm still dealing with, and I still think like he's here. I miss him tremendously. I love him and have to move on. I'll remember him and respect the memories of what we did together and just enjoy life... and that's all I'll say about it."<ref>{{cite web|title=Jerry Cantrell Missing Lost Friend, Moving On With Trip|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1455888/jerry-cantrell-missing-lost-friend-moving-on-with-trip/|website=MTV|access-date=August 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120084934/http://www.mtv.com/news/1455888/jerry-cantrell-missing-lost-friend-moving-on-with-trip/|archive-date=November 20, 2016|date=July 1, 2002}}</ref> [[William DuVall]], who performed Staley's vocals during Cantrell's solo concerts, elaborated on this emotional period saying: "I lost my grandfather in the same week, so Cantrell and I both hit the road with immense personal losses dogging us. There were times on stage—there was one show in [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]] where it was just so heavy. I'm holding back tears onstage, and Jerry would start crying onstage too a lot at that point, and a lot of times we would just look at each other when we were singing the stuff because it was the only way... it was heavy. I can't quantify it really in words."<ref name="PopMatters 2003"/>

Cantrell canceled the show that he was scheduled to perform at 98 Rock's Livestock Festival in [[Zephyrhills, Florida|Zephyrhills]] on April 28 in order to attend Staley's funeral in Seattle in the same day.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pure Rock Newswire 04/26/02|url=http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=704|website=KNAC|access-date=August 11, 2017|date=April 26, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NEUROTICA To Replace JERRY CANTRELL At Florida's LIVESTOCK 12|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/neurotica-to-replace-jerry-cantrell-at-florida-s-livestock/|website=Blabbermouth|access-date=August 11, 2017|date=April 26, 2002}}</ref> Cantrell dedicated his solo album, ''Degradation Trip'', released two months after Staley's death, to his memory.<ref name="Roadrunner Cantrell">{{cite web| url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/artists/JerryCantrell/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119070122/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/artists/JerryCantrell/| archive-date=January 19, 2008 |title=Well Worth The Trip |date=December 24, 2002 |publisher=Roadrunner Records UK |access-date=2007-12-07}}</ref> He also adopted Staley's cat, a female [[Siamese cat|Siamese]] named Sadie, after his death. The cat appeared on Cantrell's episode of ''[[MTV Cribs]]'', which was shot at his ranch in [[Oklahoma]] in September 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zfwrHTXlI  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/N3zfwrHTXlI| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell adopted Layne Staley's cat Sadie after Layne passed away |website=[[YouTube]] |date=December 14, 2017 |access-date=April 16, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Sadie died on the same night of Alice in Chains' concert in Seattle on October 8, 2010, aged 18.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smnnews.com/2010/10/15/alice-in-chains-layne-staleys-cat-sadie-passes-away/|title=ALICE IN CHAINS: Layne Staley's Cat Sadie Passes Away|publisher=SMN News|date=15 October 2010|access-date=11 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018041253/http://www.smnnews.com/2010/10/15/alice-in-chains-layne-staleys-cat-sadie-passes-away/|archive-date=October 18, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

=== Religious views ===
Cantrell is critical of religion<ref name="religion">{{cite news |access-date=November 13, 2016 |url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/alice_in_chains_jerry_cantrell_talks_religious_themes_of_new_album.html |title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Talks Religious Themes of New Album |publisher=[[Ultimate Guitar]] |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120345/https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/alice_in_chains_jerry_cantrell_talks_religious_themes_of_new_album.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Young Earth creationism]], satirizing them both in Alice in Chains' 2013 album, ''[[The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here]]''.<ref name="religion"/> Cantrell stated, "There are two things you never want to get into a conversation or argument about: politics and religion. But fuck, I guess we're going to be talking about this for awhile."<ref name="religion"/> "No one in the band claims to be an expert on religion, but the title of the song [The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here] comes from something that a lot of people actually believe in."<ref name="noisecreep"/> Cantrell also stated that he's sick of the hypocrisy that's taken over many facets of organized religion. "I think there's overwhelming evidence that things aren't working right now. We need to start growing up as a people. When you're teaching people that being gay is a mortal sin, yet a good portion of the people teaching this are fucking kids, there's a huge problem."<ref name="noisecreep">{{cite web |url=http://noisecreep.com/alice-in-chains-religion-album-title/ |title=Alice in Chains on How a 'Ridiculous' Religious Claim Inspired Their New Album Title (EXCLUSIVE) |website=Noise Creep |date=9 April 2013|access-date=19 July 2017}}</ref>

===Surgeries===
During his independent tour for ''[[Degradation Trip]]'' before the album was released, Cantrell broke his left hand while playing [[American football|football]] after a concert at the [[Kentucky Derby]] on May 3, 2001.<ref name="broken hand">{{Cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyng2mDZ8yg  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/jyng2mDZ8yg| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell Recalls How He Broke His Hand While Playing Football In 2001}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/archive-news-may-06-2001/ |title=Archive News May 06, 2001 |date=May 6, 2001 |website=Blabbermouth |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001082857/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/archive-news-may-06-2001/ |archive-date=October 1, 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref> While Cantrell was running full speed, his guitar player at the time, Bryan Kehoe, was also running full speed towards him and Cantrell got his pinky finger caught in Kehoe's T-shirt sleeve. Cantrell went to the [[Emergency department|emergency room]] but they could not do anything for him there, since the bone had slipped back in his hand and he would need a reconstructive surgery, but he had to wait for a couple of weeks for that to happen. Cantrell wanted to continue the tour, and although he was in a lot of pain, he played his first concert as a [[Lead vocalist|frontman]] without a guitar opening for [[Cheap Trick]] in Atlanta.<ref name="broken hand"/> Cantrell needed a titanium plate and four screws to put the bones back together.<ref name="broken hand"/> Cantrell reported that breaking his hand was the worst physical pain he ever had.<ref name="broken hand"/> The injury caused the remainder of Cantrell's solo tour to be postponed. His first concert after the surgery was at the Key Club in West Hollywood on July 1, 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/archive-news-may-25-2001/ |date=May 25, 2001 |website=Blabbermouth |title=Archive News May 25, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019174627/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/archive-news-may-25-2001/ |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

Cantrell underwent shoulder surgery twice. In December 2005, a surgery in his left shoulder removed bone fragments and repaired cartilage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bravewords.com/news/guitarist-jerry-cantrell-recovers-from-shoulder-surgery |title=GUITARIST JERRY CANTRELL RECOVERS FROM SHOULDER SURGERY |publisher=Bravewords |date=12 December 2005|access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-jerry-cantrell-on-the-mend-after-surgery/ |title=ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist JERRY CANTRELL On The Mend After Surgery |work=Blabbermouth |date=12 December 2005|access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref> During a chat at [[ESPN.com]] on November 29, 2011, Cantrell revealed that he had gone through another surgery earlier that year, this time in his right shoulder<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/jerry_cantrell_if_you_cant__play_you_shouldnt_be_onstage.html |title=Jerry Cantrell: 'If You Can't Play You Shouldn't Be Onstage' |publisher=Ultimate Guitar |date=1 April 2013|access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref> and that he was in the tail end of the rehabilitation process.<ref name="2011 ESPN chat"/> The surgery postponed the recording sessions of ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'' as Cantrell could not play guitar for eight months while he was recovering.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQp6_PWqOk&t=1m09s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/xsQp6_PWqOk| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell takes over the KLOS airwaves with Melissa Maxx PT1 (November 12, 2014) |date=November 12, 2014 |website=YouTube |access-date=March 27, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Cantrell explained the surgery saying, "The thing that set me back is I had some bone spurs [and] cartilage issues in my shoulders. I had the same issue in the other shoulder about six years ago so I've had them both done now. It's a repetitive motion injury from playing."<ref name=surgery>{{cite web|title=Lessons Learned With Jerry Cantrell|url=http://www.grammy.com/news/lessons-learned-with-jerry-cantrell|date=May 30, 2012|author=Steve Baltin|work=Grammy.com|access-date=November 24, 2017|archive-date=June 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602000645/http://www.grammy.com/news/lessons-learned-with-jerry-cantrell|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> While recuperating at home in a sling, Cantrell heard a riff in his head and sang it into his phone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FROXRkhLcM8&t=5m23s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/FROXRkhLcM8| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell humming Stone's melody |work=YouTube |date=6 June 2015|access-date=11 August 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The riff later became the song "[[Stone (Alice in Chains song)|Stone]]", the first single from ''The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-xpm-2013-may-29-la-et-ms-alice-in-chains-20130529-story.html |title=Through the good and the bad, Alice in Chains unbroken |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 29, 2013|access-date=April 5, 2018}}</ref>

===Substance abuse===
Cantrell is a recovering addict and alcoholic and has been sober since 2003.<ref name=surgery/><ref name="speech Musicares">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2yLU8JXvvM&t=1m30s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/X2yLU8JXvvM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerrys Speech 5-31-12 |publisher=YouTube |date=31 May 2012 |access-date=24 November 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was awarded the 2012 [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] Award from [[MusiCares]], for his work helping other addicts with the recovery process. Cantrell said in his acceptance speech, "I crash landed here almost 9 years ago, in Los Angeles. Sean [Kinney] was at the door with my brother, so my choices were open the door and go to rehab or jump out the back window down a cliff into some blackberry bushes. That's the choice I took. Luckily they caught me because I couldn't go anywhere, I was kind of stuck in a bush at the bottom of a cliff bleeding, and I ended up here. I didn't intend to get here but I'm very grateful I am here, and it took a lot of people to help me get here. It's been an amazing day. It's overwhelming. I'm as imperfect as they come. I just don't get high today and wake up the next morning and try and do the same thing. A lot of people stand and get the fuck back up after falling. Some people don't get that chance. My band's been a harsh example of that – what happens when you don't deal with it." Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates played a five-song set at the awards event and Cantrell stated, "We really miss Layne [Staley] and Mike [Starr], and we carry them with us in our hearts".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-honored-with-stevie-ray-vaughan-award-20120601 |title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Honored with Stevie Ray Vaughan Award |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1 June 2012 |access-date=19 June 2017 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627115729/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-honored-with-stevie-ray-vaughan-award-20120601 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="speech Musicares"/>

== Charity contributions ==
[[File:Jerry & Slash - Acoustic.jpg|thumb|right|Cantrell and Slash playing an acoustic show for Road Recovery on [[The Nightwatchman]]'s Justice tour at the Nokia Theater, New York on April 17, 2008]]
Cantrell is a longtime supporter of [[MusiCares|MusiCares MAP Fund]],<ref name=surgery/> which helps musicians who are struggling with addiction, financial and health issues.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/musicares/about |title=MusiCares |website=Grammy.com |date=October 18, 2010 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref> He also supports Road Recovery, an organization dedicated to helping young people battling addiction.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1045825/farrell-morello-slash-and-more-rock-for-recovery
 |title=Farrell, Morello, Slash And More Rock For Recovery |magazine=Billboard |date=April 18, 2008 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-tom-morello-perry-farrell-to-take-part-in-road-recovery-concert/ |title=JERRY CANTRELL, TOM MORELLO, PERRY FARRELL To Take Part In 'Road Recovery' Concert |website=Blabbermouth |date=March 25, 2009 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6s_qiNCnlE  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/r6s_qiNCnlE| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Road Recovery Rock 'N Ride NY 2013 // Alice in Chains |website=YouTube |date=November 14, 2013 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1996, Cantrell became involved with anti-racism organisation Artists for a Hate Free America,<ref name="spin96" /> alongside other musicians including [[Jeff Ament]], [[Beck]] and [[Michael Stipe]], to film public service announcements, and pose for a national ad campaign.<ref name="spin96">{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgSxMMIfuU8C |title=SPIN Magazine, November 1996 |work=SPIN |agency=SPIN Media LLC |date=November 1996}}</ref>

On April 12, 2004, Cantrell and his then-band Cardboard Vampyres performed at a benefit concert for Sweet Relief, a nonprofit organization that helps needy musicians cover medical expenses.<ref name="Cardboard Vampyres"/> On November 10, 2004, Cantrell was among the musicians who performed a short acoustic set to benefit ''Help The Homeless'' in Hollywood, California.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://staging.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-billy-duffy-to-perform-at-help-the-homeless-benefit/ |title=JERRY CANTRELL, BILLY DUFFY To Perform At HELP THE HOMELESS Benefit |website=Blabbermouth |date=November 9, 2004 |access-date=March 17, 2018 |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318120522/http://staging.blabbermouth.net/news/jerry-cantrell-billy-duffy-to-perform-at-help-the-homeless-benefit/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2007, Cantrell auctioned off some of his favorite clothes from key moments in his career to benefit MusiCares and the Layne Staley Fund,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://staging.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-launches-benefit-auction-for-musicares-and-layne-staley-fund/ |title=ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist Launches Benefit Auction For MUSICARES and LAYNE STALEY FUND |website=Blabbermouth |date=October 29, 2007 |access-date=March 17, 2018 |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318182521/http://staging.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-launches-benefit-auction-for-musicares-and-layne-staley-fund/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://staging.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-s-closet-auction-for-charity-a-massive-success/ |title=ALICE IN CHAINS Guitarist's Closet Auction for Charity A 'Massive Success' |website=Blabbermouth |date=November 28, 2007 |access-date=March 17, 2018 |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318120600/http://staging.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-guitarist-s-closet-auction-for-charity-a-massive-success/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> which provides support and treatment for heroin recovery in the Seattle music community.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ths-wa.org/about-ths/layne-staley-memorial-fund/ |title=Layne Staley Memorial Fund |website=Therapeutic Health Services |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

Since 2009, Cantrell has hosted the ''Alice in Chains & Friends Charity Fantasy Football League''. Each participant puts up an item for an online auction and all of the proceeds goes to the charity chosen by the champion of the league.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espn.in/espn/thelife/news/story?id=4441329 |title=Rock 'n' roll fantasy football |website=ESPN.com |date=September 4, 2009 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref> Cantrell founded the league to combine his love of fantasy football with the goal of helping a worthy cause.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espn.in/espn/thelife/music/news/story?id=6013803 |title=Alice in Chains charity auction launches |website=ESPN.com |date=January 12, 2011 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref> Cantrell won the league for the first time in 2016, and in 2017 he decided to donate the proceeds to MusiCares in [[Chris Cornell]]'s memory, and to [[Music for Relief]] in memory of [[Chester Bennington]]. Both musicians died in 2017.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/jerry-cantrell-on-alice-in-chains-fantasy-football-league-and-auction-w505702 |title=Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains Fantasy Football League and Auction |date=September 27, 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=April 15, 2018 |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318120642/https://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/jerry-cantrell-on-alice-in-chains-fantasy-football-league-and-auction-w505702 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018, Cantrell named the league's trophy after his friend [[Vinnie Paul]], who had died recently.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ8ve4RR55s&t=733  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/tQ8ve4RR55s| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell Talks New Alice In Chains Album & More w/Rich Eisen &#124; Full Interview 8/14/18 |website=[[YouTube]] |date=August 14, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On May 15, 2015, Cantrell performed at the second annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert in benefit of the Pediatric Cancer Program at the University of California, San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/metallicas-james-hetfield-performs-with-daughter-cali-alice-in-chains-jerry-cantrell-at-acoustic-4-a-cure-video/ |title=METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD Performs With Daughter CALI, ALICE IN CHAINS' JERRY CANTRELL At 'Acoustic-4-A-Cure' (Video) |website=Blabbermouth |date=May 16, 2015 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

Cantrell is a supporter of [[St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]] and has performed at benefit concerts and charity golf tournaments to raise funds for the hospital that treats children with cancer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/4902891 |title=Alice in Chains charity auction to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital wrapping up |date=September 7, 2010 |website=ESPN |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Bull Magazine">{{Cite web |url=http://thebullmag.com/charity-in-chains/ |title=Charity in Chains |last=Williams |first=Samantha |date=May 9, 2012 |website=The Bull Magazine |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release |url=https://www.newswire.com/news/the-doors-robby-krieger-and-artist-scott-medlock-break-fundraising-19966992 |title=The Doors Robby Krieger and Artist Scott Medlock Break Fundraising Targets in 10th Annual Event for St. Jude's |date=September 25, 2017 |website=Newswire |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

Cantrell and his Alice in Chains bandmates offer special seating at their concerts for veterans from Operation Ward 57, a fund for wounded soldiers.<ref name="Bull Magazine"/>

In 2015, Alice in Chains donated two dollars from every pre-sold ticket of their summer tour to help the family of a fan named Stefan Dayne-Ankle, who died after a battle with leukemia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Meriden/MeridenNews/7018697-154/alice-in-chains-to-donate-portion-of-concert-proceeds-to.html |title=Alice in Chains to donate portion of concert proceeds to former Wilcox valedictorian's family |date=March 16, 2015 |website=MyRecordJournal.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820112447/http://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Meriden/MeridenNews/7018697-154/alice-in-chains-to-donate-portion-of-concert-proceeds-to.html |archive-date=August 20, 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

Cantrell also supports [[Music for Relief]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/jerry-cantrell-on-alice-in-chains-fantasy-football-league-and-auction-w505702 |title=Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains Fantasy Football League and Auction |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=September 27, 2017 |access-date=March 17, 2018 |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318120642/https://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/jerry-cantrell-on-alice-in-chains-fantasy-football-league-and-auction-w505702 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Autism Speaks]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espn.com.au/espn/thelife/music/news/story?id=5948236 |title=Alice in Chains & Friends Charity League Final: Jerry Cantrell vs. Meat Loaf |website=ESPN.com |date=December 26, 2010 |access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref><ref name="2011 ESPN chat">{{Cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/41451/rocker-jerry-cantrell |title=Chat with Jerry Cantrell  |website=ESPN.com |date=November 29, 2011 |access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref> Rock Against MS Foundation,<ref name="Rock Against MS"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://loudwire.com/jerry-cantrell-john-5-scott-ian-more-auction-items-to-fight-ms/ |title=Jerry Cantrell, John 5, Scott Ian + More Auction Items to Fight MS |website=Loudwire |date=December 28, 2017 |access-date=March 18, 2018}}</ref> and the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/los-angeles-police-memorial-foundation-celebrity-poker-tournament-and-casino-night-hosted-by-don-cheadle-300362700.html |title=Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation Celebrity Poker Tournament And Casino Night Hosted by Don Cheadle |website=PRNewswire |date=November 15, 2016 |access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Singles (1992 film)|Singles]]''
| Himself
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[The Nona Tapes]]''
| Nona Weisbaum
| Short film
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''
| Jesus of CopyMat
|
|-
| 1998, 2006
| ''[[Behind the Music]]''
| Himself
| 2 episodes
|-
| 2004
| ''[[I Love the '90s (American TV series)|I Love the '90s]]''
| Himself
| 
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood]]''
| Man drinking at bar
| [[Cameo appearance|Cameo]]
|-
| 2009
| ''Behind the Music: Remastered''
| Himself
| Episode: "Heart"
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Rock Slyde]]''
| Himself
| 
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Alice in Chains: AIC 23|AIC 23]]''
| Donnie "Skeeter" Dollarhide Jr.
| Short film
|-
| 2018
| ''Dad Band''
| Terry
| Short film
|-
| 2019
| ''[[Deadwood: The Movie]]''
| Townsman
| Cameo
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Jerry Cantrell}}

==Discography==

===With Alice in Chains===
{{Main|Alice in Chains discography}}

===Solo===
{|class="wikitable"
!scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year
!scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album details
!scope="col" colspan="4"|Chart positions
|-
!scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|[[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jerry-cantrell/chart-history/tlp/|title=Jerry Cantrell Chart History: ''Billboard'' 200 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=October 29, 2024}}</ref>
!style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|[[ARIA Charts|AUS]]<br><ref>Peaks in Australia:
* ''Boggy Depot'': {{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Jerry+Cantrell |title=Discography Jerry Cantrell |publisher=Hung Medien |archive-date=April 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411022228/http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Jerry+Cantrell |url-status=live |df=mdy }}
* ''Degradation Trip'': {{cite Ryan|page=48}}
* ''Brighten'': {{cite magazine|title=The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 7 February 2022|magazine=The ARIA Report|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]]|issue=1666|page=6|date=February 7, 2022}}</ref>
!scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|[[Canadian Albums Chart|CAN]]<br><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3535&volume=67&issue=5%20(4)&issue_dt=April%2027%201998&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=lhaled67omcph7v3aq7fbveid1 |title=Top 100 CDs – Volume 67, No. 5 (4) |magazine=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] |date=April 27, 1998 |archive-date=October 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011044024/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3535&volume=67&issue=5%20%284%29&issue_dt=April%2027%201998&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=lhaled67omcph7v3aq7fbveid1 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
!scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%"|[[Official New Zealand Music Chart|NZ]]<br><ref>{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Jerry+Cantrell |title=Discography Jerry Cantrell |publisher=Hung Medien |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
|1998
|''[[Boggy Depot]]''
*Released: March 31, 1998 ([[LP record|Vinyl record]])<br />April 7, 1998 (CD)
*Label: [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
|align="center"|28
|align="center"|25
|align="center"|39
|align="center"|46
|-
|rowspan="2"|2002
|''[[Degradation Trip]]'' 
*Released: June 18, 2002
*Label: [[Roadrunner Records|Roadrunner]]
|align="center"|33
|align="center"|85
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|-
|''[[Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2]]''
*Released: November 26, 2002
*Label: Roadrunner
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|-
|-
|2021
|''[[Brighten (album)|Brighten]]''
*Released: October 29, 2021
*Label: Double J
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|63
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|-
|2024
|''[[I Want Blood]]''
*Released: October 18, 2024
*Label: Double J 
|align="center"|145<br /><ref>{{cite tweet|user=billboardcharts|number=1850981232374669628|title=Debuts on this week's #Billboard200...|date=October 28, 2024|access-date=October 29, 2024}}</ref>
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|-
|align="center" colspan="6" style="font-size: 85%"| "—" denotes a release that did not chart.
|}

===Singles===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Song
! colspan="3"| Chart positions
! rowspan="2"| Album
|-
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Alternative Songs|US<br>Alt.]]
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks|US<br>Main.]]<br><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Jerry Cantrell Chart History - Mainstream Rock Charts |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jerry-cantrell/chart-history/rtt/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 28, 2021}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:3em; font-size:90%" | [[Hot Rock & Alternative Songs|US<br>Air.]]
|-
| 1996
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Leave Me Alone (Jerry Cantrell song)|Leave Me Alone]]"
| —
| 14
| —
| ''[[The Cable Guy#Soundtrack|The Cable Guy soundtrack]]''
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1998
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Cut You In]]"
| 15
| 5
| —
| rowspan="3"| ''[[Boggy Depot]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Dickeye]]"
| —
| 36
| —
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[My Song (Jerry Cantrell song)|My Song]]"
| —
| 6
| —
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2002
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Anger Rising]]"
| —
| 10
| —
| rowspan="2"| ''[[Degradation Trip]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Angel Eyes (Jerry Cantrell song)|Angel Eyes]]"
| —
| —
| —
|-
| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[A Job to Do]]"
| —
| —
| —
| ''[[John Wick: Chapter 2 (soundtrack)|John Wick: Chapter 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]]''
|-
| 2018
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Setting Sun (Jerry Cantrell song)|Setting Sun]]"
| —
| —
| —
| ''[[Dark Nights: Metal|Dark Nights: Metal Soundtrack]]''
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2021
| style="text-align:left;"| "Atone"
| —
| —
| —
| rowspan="3"| ''[[Brighten (album)|Brighten]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Brighten"
| —
| 19
| 43
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Siren Song"
| —
| —
| —
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2024
| style="text-align:left;"| "[[Vilified]]"
| —
| 10
| 15
| rowspan="3"| ''[[I Want Blood]]''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Afterglow"
| —
| 23
| —
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "I Want Blood"
| —
| —
| —
|-
|align="center" colspan="6" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes a release that did not chart.
|}

===Music videos===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! style="width:15em" | Title
! Director
|-
| 1996
| "Leave Me Alone"
| Rocky Morton
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1998
| "Cut You In"
| Peter Christopherson
|-
| "My Song"
| Rocky Schenck
|-
| 2002
| "Anger Rising"
| [[P.R. Brown]]
|-
| 2017
| "A Job To Do"
| {{Unknown}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2021
| "Atone"
| Jim Louvau and Tony Aguilera
|-
| "Brighten"
| Gilbert Trejo
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2022
| "Siren Song"
| Nate Merritt
|-
| "Had to Know"
| Jim Louvau
|-
| "Prism of Doubt"
| Zoe Katz
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2024
| "[[Vilified]]"
| Lorenzo Diego Carrera
|-
| "Afterglow"
| Matt Mahurin
|-
| 2025
| "I Want Blood"
| Bill Yukich
|-
|}

===With Ozzy Osbourne===
*''[[Prince of Darkness (Ozzy Osbourne album)|Prince of Darkness]]'' (2005) (disc four)
*''[[Under Cover]]'' (2005)

===Other appearances===
*''Magic & Madness'' – "Heaven & Hell" w/ [[Circus of Power]] (February 1993)
*''[[Last Action Hero: Music from the Original Motion Picture]]'' – "various guitar ques" (June 1993)
*''[[Hanging in the Balance]]'' – "Gods of a Second Chance" w/ [[Metal Church]] (October 1993)
*''[[Willie Nelson|Twisted Willie: A Tribute to Willie Nelson]]'' – "I've Seen All This World I Care to See" (January 1996)
*''[[The Cable Guy#Soundtrack|The Cable Guy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]'' – "Leave Me Alone" (May 1996)
*''[[Blackacidevil]]'' – "See All You Were", "Come to Silver" and "Hand of Doom" w/ [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] (October 1996)
*''The Full Sentence'' – "Marry Me" w/ [[Pigeonhed]] (January 1997)
*''[[Garage Inc.]]'' – "[[Tuesday's Gone]]" w/ [[Metallica]] (November 1998)
*''[[The Deep End, Volume 1]]'' – "Effigy" w/ [[Gov't Mule]] (October 2001)
*''[[Live at Home (Nickelback DVD)|Live at Home]]'' – appeared on stage with [[Nickelback]] in January 2002, performing "It Ain't Like That"
*''[[The Punisher: The Album]]'' – "Ashes to Ashes" w/ [[Damageplan]] (also featured on the Japan version of ''[[New Found Power]]''; March 2004)
*''[[Jupiters Darling]]'' – "Fallen Ones" w/ [[Heart (band)|Heart]] (June 2004)<ref name="Fallen Ones"/>
*''[[Music for the Divine]]'' – "Misty Mountain Hop" w/ [[Glenn Hughes (English singer)|Glenn Hughes]] (January 2007)
* ''The Sun and the Earth - The Essential Stevie Salas Vol. 1'' – "Soul Ecstacy" w/ [[Stevie Salas]] (April 2007)
* ''It's OK to Be Happy'' w/ [[Smith & Pyle]] (July 2008)
* ''[[Little Immaculate White Fox]]'' – "Anything" w/ [[Pearl Aday]] (January 2010)
* ''[[24 Hours (Richie Kotzen album)|24 Hours]]'' – "Love Is Blind" w/ [[Richie Kotzen]] (November 2011)
* ''How to Be a Man'' w/ [[Duff McKagan]] (May 2015)
* ''[[Gore (Deftones album)|Gore]]'' – "[[Phantom Bride]]" w/ [[Deftones]] (April 2016)<ref name="Phantom Bride"/>
* ''John Wick: Chapter 2 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' – "A Job to Do" (February 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAePT8RM94 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/JBAePT8RM94| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Jerry Cantrell "A Job to Do" – John Wick: Chapter 2 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|last=Varèse Sarabande Records|date=February 8, 2017|access-date=October 15, 2017|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* ''[[Dark Nights: Metal|Dark Nights: Metal Soundtrack]]'' – ''Setting Sun'' (July 2018)
* ''Lighthouse'' – "I Just Don't Know" w/[[Duff McKagan]] (October 2023)
* ''Sinners: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' – "In Moonlight" w/[[Ludwig Göransson]] (April 2025)
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