JIMMY BARNES

(AUSTRALIA)

FLESH AND BLOOD

(2021)
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ROCK

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Folk, Intimist, Melancholic, Rasping vocals
"Less immediate than its predecessor and showing a relatively unusual softness for its author, "Flesh & Blood" is nevertheless a new success for Jimmy Barnes."
LOLOCELTIC (22.09.2021)  
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While France persists in disdaining him, Jimmy Barnes has just released his 19th album, which took the opportunity to become his 13th number one in Australia, beating U2 and Madonna. While "My Criminal Record" (2019) was often angry, the newcomer is a family work by the number of its participants, but also by the theme of most of its songs. Wife, children, grandchildren ... all mobilized around the Australian boss for an opus conceived during the period of confinement and translating the melancholy caused by this troubled period and highlighting the importance of family relationships and friends.

A bit like Bruce Springsteen on "Letter To You", Jimmy Barnes takes the time to look back on his life and on the trials he went through. The eponymous title that opens this collection with an infectious energy and a catchy chorus reminds us of his American counterpart. Jimmy's flesh and blood are his children, and he has given them everything, the best and the worst of which he apologizes, even if he has always done his best. The first part of the album works in a similar register ('Around In Circles'), leaning a little more towards a folk-rock to which the artist adds some notes of bagpipes ('I'm Coming Home'). After all, he never denied his Scottish origins and it is not at 65 years old that he will start. Typical of the Australian pub-rock, to which Jimmy Barnes largely contributed to give its letters of nobility, 'Gateway To Your Heart' is also unstoppable and benefits from a nice guitar solo offered by a certain Mark Lizotte, better known under the name of Johnny Diesel and who co-wrote several titles of the album.

The second part of this "Flesh & Blood" takes the side of the softness and the melancholy by stringing together five calm and moving tracks. With some country touches, 'Til The Next Time' shows delicacy and depth by dealing with the nocturnal anguish that can seize the author, and that his wife soothes by her simple presence. 'I Move Slow' is also touching as it deals with the passing of time with his children Elly-May and Jackie. To note that this last one, drummer within Rose Tattoo, shows here a remarkable delicacy. As for 'Love Hurts' interpreted with his wife Jane, it is also poignant, evoking an episode of their common life during which Jimmy decided to put everything on the table, the best and the worst, in order to allow them to start again on healthy bases. All these titles, although remaining in a calmed register, compensate their softness by an interpretation at the same time right and deep, which is not surprising when one knows the talent of the master of the places.

Less immediate than its predecessor and showing a relatively unusual softness for its author, "Flesh & Blood" is nevertheless a new success for Jimmy Barnes. He proves here the immensity of his talent as an interpreter and confirms that he is the boss of an Australian rock for which the intensity can be found as well in the depth of his interpretation as in the power of his instruments. We have no illusions about the echo that this opus will meet in France, but this should not prevent you from giving it the attention it deserves.
- Official website

TRACK LISTING:
01. Flesh And Blood - 5:27
02. I'm Coming Home - 3:16
03. Gateway To Your Heart - 4:46
04. This Is The Truth - 4:05
05. Around In Circles - 4:28
06. 'til The Next Time - 4:45
07. I Move Slow (feat. Elly-may Barnes & Jackie Barnes) - 5:23
08. End Of The Road - 4:52
09. Love Hurts (feat. Jane Barnes) - 4:05
10. Tennessee Waltz (feat. Eliza Jane Barnes) - 3:55

LINEUP:
Benjamin Rodgers: Basse
Clayton Doley: Claviers
Daniel Wayne Spencer: Guitares
Jackie Barnes: Chant / Batterie
Jimmy Barnes: Chant
Lachlan Doley: Claviers / Invité
Douglas Mcfarland: Invité / Cornemuse
Eliza Jane Barnes: Chant / Invité
Elly-may Barnes: Chant / Invité
Jane Barnes: Chant / Invité
Juanita Tippins: Invité / Chœurs
Mahalia Barnes: Invité / Chœurs
Prinnie Stevens: Invité / Chœurs
Russ Pahl: Guitares / Invité / Pedal Steel
Tyra Harrison: Invité / Chœurs
   
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LOLO_THE_BEST59
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Voilà un album rudement attachant ! Le titre Flesh and blood donne déjà le ton, mais Gateway to your heart met la barre encore plus haut. Jimmy Barnes nous délivre 10 titres qui naviguent entre rock et western soul, tout ça chanté avec beaucoup de coeur. On a juste envie de remettre le couvert quand la dernière valse se termine.
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