Freight Train Heart

Freight Train Heart
Studio album by Jimmy Barnes
Released 1987
Recorded Power Station Studios, New York City & Rhinoceros Studios, Sydney
Genre Hard rock
Language English
Label Mushroom Records (Australia)
Producer Jonathan Cain, Mike Stone, Desmond Child
Jimmy Barnes chronology
For the Working Class Man
(1985)
Freight Train Heart
(1987)
Barnestorming
(1988)
Singles from Freight Train Heart
  1. "Too Much Ain't Enough Love"
    Released: October 1987
  2. "Driving Wheels"
    Released: January 1988
  3. "I'm Still On Your Side"
    Released: March 1988
  4. "Waitin' for the Heartache"
    Released: July 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Freight Train Heart is an album by Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes, released in late 1987 in Australia by Mushroom Records and in early 1988 in the United States by Geffen. It spent 5 weeks at the top of the Australian Album charts in Dec 1987 / Jan 1988. Most of the tracks were written by Barnes and producer Jonathan Cain, however "Waitin' for the Heartache" was co-written by Barnes and Desmond Child and "Walk On" was co-written by Child and ex-Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner; (Turner would later record his own version with his band Sunstorm). Two songs were also written with Jim Vallance. According to Vallance, Cain also contributed "later",[2] most likely during the recording process.

"Seven Days" was a Ronnie Wood track originally written for him by Bob Dylan. This was the last song recorded for the album, and features INXS drummer Jon Farriss, bassist Chris Bailey and Rick Brewster from The Angels. Brewster, Johnny Diesel, Peter Kekell and The Angels' Jim Hilbun were all hired after Barnes returned with the uncompleted master tapes from the initial recording sessions at the Power Station in New York, where he had fought for creative control with both Cain and Geffen Records.[3] The album was completed at Rhinoceros Studios in Sydney with Mike Stone producing. Other guests to contribute include Huey Lewis, who provides backing vocals and harmonica on "I Wanna Get Started With You", Wendy Matthews and David Glen Eisley of the melodic hard rock band Giuffria.

Track listing

  1. "Driving Wheels" (Barnes, Cain, David Roberts)
  2. "Seven Days" (Bob Dylan)
  3. "Too Much Ain't Enough Love" (Barnes, Cain, Schon, Jackson, Brock)
  4. "Do or Die" (Barnes, Cain)
  5. "Waitin' for the Heartache" (Barnes, Desmond Child)
  6. "Last Frontier" (Barnes, Cain)
  7. "I Wanna Get Started with You" (Barnes, Cain, Schon)
  8. "I'm Still on Your Side" (Barnes, Jim Vallance, Cain)
  9. "Lessons in Love" (Barnes, Jim Vallance, Jeff Neall, Cain)
  10. "Walk On" (Desmond Child, Joe Lynn Turner)

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1987 Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart 1
1988

Personnel

References

  1. Freight Train Heart at AllMusic
  2. Jim Vallance Discography
  3. Creswell, Toby Jimmy Barnes: Too Much Ain't Enough
Preceded by
Man of Colours by Icehouse
Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
21 December 1987 - 24 January 1988
Succeeded by
Wired World of Sports by The Twelfth Man
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