◇ image via WikipediaJimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Babys, Sam Cooke, Percy Sledge, The Band and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Barnes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Cold Chisel, Noiseworks, Australian Crawl, Hunters & Collectors and The Angels, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into INXS, John Farnham, Tina Turner, Guy Sebastian and Kasey Chambers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Jimmy Barnes, reaching back through The Babys and forward to INXS. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
James Dixon Barnes is an Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. By 2022 he had achieved 15 solo number-one albums in Australia, more than any other artist. He has won many awards, and been nominated for many more. In 2005 he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a solo artist, after also having been an inductee in 1992 as a member of Cold Chisel. His music has covered many genres, including hard rock, blues rock, soul, R&B, country, country rock, and electronic. Some of his albums were recorded at his own recording studio, Freight Train Studios.
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Jimmy Barnes connections
Jimmy Barnes grew out of The Babys, Sam Cooke, Percy Sledge and The Band, shares an orbit with Cold Chisel, Noiseworks, Australian Crawl and Hunters & Collectors, went on to shape INXS, John Farnham, Tina Turner and Guy Sebastian. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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