Freight Train Heart

Freight Train Heart
Studio album by Jimmy Barnes
Released	November 13, 1987
Studio	Power Station Studios, New York City & Rhinoceros Studios, Sydney
Genre	Hard rock
Label	Mushroom
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
"Too Much Ain't Enough Love" Released: October 1987 "Driving Wheels" Released: January 1988 "I'm Still On Your Side" Released: March 1988 "Waitin' for the Heartache" Released: July 1988

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Freight Train Heart is the third studio 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 City, 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 Neill, Cain)
10. "Walk On" (Desmond Child, Joe Lynn Turner)

Chart positions

Personnel

• Vocals - Jimmy Barnes
• Guitar - Neal Schon, Johnny Diesel, Rick Brewster, John McCurry
• Bass - Randy Jackson, Chris Bailey, Jim Hilbun, Seth Glassman
• Drums - Tony Brock, Jon Farriss, Jerry Marotta
• Keyboards, piano - Jonathan Cain, Peter Kekell, Gregg Mangiafico
• Synthesizer - Chuck Kentis
• Zither - Ian Moss
• Harmonica - Huey Lewis
• Steel guitar - David Lindley
• Backing vocals - Jimmy Barnes, Huey Lewis, Wendy Matthews, David Glen Eisley, Johnny Diesel, Dave Amato, Lynette Stephens, Jim Hilbun, Walter Hawkins, Shawn Murphy, Venetta Fields, Joe Lynn Turner

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