Jimmy Barnes - My Criminal Record (Deluxe Edition)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 78:44
Size: 181,4 MB
Label: Bloodlines
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock/Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. My Criminal Record - 4:10
 2. Shutting Down Our Town - 4:44
 3. I'm in a Bad Mood - 4:09
 4. Stolen Car (The Road's on Fire Pt. I) - 5:20
 5. My Demon (God Help Me) - 5:55
 6. Working Class Hero - 3:57
 7. Belvedere and Cigarettes - 4:16
 8. I Won't Let You Down - 4:51
 9. Stargazer - 5:25
10. Money and Class - 4:55
11. Stolen Car (The Road's on Fire Pt. II) - 3:43
12. If Time Is on My Side - 4:13
13. Tougher Than the Rest - 5:16
14. Reckless Beauty - 3:52
15. Waitin' on a Plane - 4:18
16. Tougher Than the Rest (Alternate Mix) - 5:35
17. I'm in a Bad Mood (Bob Clearmountain Mix) - 3:56

My Criminal Record is the 17th studio album by Australian musician Jimmy Barnes. The album was released on 31 May 2019. The album is Barnes' first solo album of primarily original material since 2010's Rage and Ruin.
In 2015, Barnes began writing with longtime collaborator Don Walker for Cold Chisel's follow-up to The Perfect Crime released in 2015. In 2016 Barnes released the autobiography Working Class Boy and the sequel Working Class Man in 2017 which lead to a documentary film titled Working Class Boy chronicling his life; thus renewing an interest in Barnes' life and career. Barnes told the Newcastle Herald writing and speaking about his life had also energised his songwriting some 40 years into his career. "It's certainly opened up a whole new avenue for songwriting in terms of different emotions, different ways of looking back at my life. Writing those books - as much as they connected with other people - for me, there was a lot of stuff that was blocking me that I tried to not deal with as I grew up. Dealing with them in the book has loosened me up and freed me up so I can write about other things and move on."Barnes scheduled two in-store album signing days to support the release; one in Melbourne on 1 June and one in Adelaide on 2 June. Jimmy Barnes said this about the recording: "We didn’t want to overload the guitars, we didn’t want to do too much in the way of big overdubs – we wanted to keep it fairly basic, simple, like a live band. Every time we’d go to record a song, we’d go, “Okay. How would we do this live?”, and then that would dictate the way we recorded the songs."
The title track was released on 25 January 2019 as the album's lead single. The Guardian said, "Listening to the familiar downtempo blues bar piano, and the dark chord progression, it's not surprising to see Cold Chisel impresario Don Walker's name alongside Barnes' on the songwriting credits, and this sits alongside their finest collaborations."
On 26 April 2019, "Shutting Down Our Town" was released as the album's second single.

My Criminal Record (Deluxe Edition)