On December 3, 2025, Steven Lee Cropper died aged 84. He was musician, songwriter, record producer and actor, known as “The Colonel”. He was the guitarist of the “Stax Records” house band, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, and Johnnie Taylor. He was also member of the Blues Brothers Band, and recorded and performed with many other artists including Alabama, Jimmy Barnes, William Bell, Barbi Benton, Big Star, Stephen Bishop, Frank Black, Bobby and the Midnites, Booker T. & MG.’s, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Burnette, Brian Cadd, Cate Brothers, Chicago, David Clayton Thomas, A. J. Croce, Patti Dahlstrom, Delaney & Bonnie, Ned Doheny, Yvonne Elliman, Jose Feliziano, Eddie Floyd, Peter Frampton, Richie Furay, Art Garfunkel, Cyndi Grecco, Levon Helm, Chris Hillman, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Etta James, Wynonna Judd, Albert King, B.B. King, Al Kooper, John Lennon, Ann Margret, Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr., Craig Morgan, Aaron Neville, Wayne Newton, Harry Nilsson, John Oates, Nigel Olsson, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Wilson Pickett, Michel Polnareff, John Prine, Otis Redding, Bruce Roberts, Leon Russell, Sanford & Townsend, Leo Sayer, Poncho Sanchez, Guy Sebastian, Neil Sedaka, Paul Shaffer, Paul Simon, Percy Sledge, Broderick Smith, The Soul Children, The Staple Singers, Mavis Staple, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, Livingston Taylor, Carla Thomas, Mickey Thomas, Wendy Waldman, Tower of Power, The Manhattan Transfer, Dale Watson and Jerry Lynn Williams. Magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked him 36th on its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists”. Cropper won two “Grammy Awards”, and as leader or co-leader Cropper released 13 albums.
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David Lindley
On March 3, 2023, David Perry Lindley died aged 78. He was musician (violin, acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, upright and electric bass, cittern, bağlama, gumbus, charango, cümbüş, oud and zither. Lindley was founding member of the bands Kaleidoscope and El Rayo-X, recorded and performed with Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Curtis Mayfield, Dolly Parton, Waren Zevon, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, James Taylor, David Crosby, Terry Reid, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Rod Stewart, Dan Fogelberg, Joe Walsh, Henry Kaiser, G. E. Smith, Wally Ingram, Hani Naser, Leonard Cohen, The Youngbloods, America, Maria Muldaur, Iain Matthews, Lonnie Mack, Karla Bonoff, Jimmy Barnes, Emmylou Harris, Tanita Tikaram, Marshall Crenshaw, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Joseph, Dzukis Kuche, Ben Harper, Jordan Zevon, Rickie Lee Jones, Arlen Roth and The Sound Field.
Jimmy Barnes: 30:30 Hindsight
On August 29, 2015, “Liberation Music”, label released “30:30 Hindsight”, the fifteenth Jimmy Barnes studio album. The album contains 17 new recordings and 13 classic Jimmy Barnes tracks spanning his solo career. It was recorded 1984 – 2014, at “Freight Train Studios”, “Revolver Studios”, “Addiction Sound”, “Studio at the Palms” and “Studio Guillaume Tell”, and was produced by David Kalmusky, Jonathan Cain, Kevin Shirley, Steven Van Zandt and Bernard Fanning.
Personnel:
- Jimmy Barnes – lead and backing vocals
- Mahalia Barnes – lead and backing vocals
- Bernard Fanning – vocal, acoustic guitar
- Steve Sheehan – acoustic guitar
- Steven van Zandt – guitar, backing vocals
- Ian Moss – guitar
- Ben Rodgers – guitar
- Chris Cheney – guitar, backing vocals
- Danny Spencer – guitar
- Dave Leslie – guitar
- Davey Lane – guitar
- Franco Raggatt – guitar
- Joe Bonamassa – guitar, slide guitar
- Jon Toogood – guitar
- Keith Urban – vocal, guitar
- Mark Lizotte – guitar
- Neal Schon – guitar
- Phil Knight – guitar
- Stuart Fraser – guitar
- Tom Bukovac – guitar
- Jon Stevens – vocal, steel guitar
- Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar
- Jimmy Mantingly – mandolin
- Jonathan Cain – piano, keyboards
- Lachian Doley – piano, keyboards
- Arian Schierbaum – keyboards
- Howard Duck – Hammond organ
- Ben Rodgers – bass
- Dario Bortolin – bass
- John Dymond – bass
- Karl Kippenberger – bass
- Michael Hegerty – bass
- Michael Menell – bass
- Michael Rhodes – bass
- Scott Owen – bass
- Jackie Barnes – drums, backing vocals
- Andy Strachan – drums
- Anton Fig – drums
- Tom Larkin – drums
- Mick Skelton – drums
- Greg Morrow – drums
- Dave Hibbard – drums
- Charley Drayton – drums
- Lenny Castro – percussion
- Charlie Owen – dobro
- David Woodford – saxophone
- Lee Thornburg – trumpet
- David Campbell – vocal
- Jon Toogood – vocal
- Matk Lizotte – vocal
- Suze Demarchi – vocal
- Tina Arena – vocal
- Troy Cassar Daley – vocal
- Doug Henthorn, Eliza Jane Barnes, Jane Barnes, Elly May Barnes, Gary Pinto, Jade MacRae, Juanita Tippins, Ruby Rogers, Scot Hull – backing vocals
- Jeff Bova – orchestration
- David Nicholas – engineer
- Jared Kvitka – engineer
- Jean Paul Fung – engineer
- Mark Gray – engineer
- Nick Didia – engineer
- Dennis Caribaux – engineer
- James Freeman – engineer
- Nick Kallstrom – engineer
- Pal Thrall – engineer
- Ethan Berrette – engineer
- Sean Astill – engineer
- Zachary Miller – engineer
Track listing:
- Lay Down Your Guns – featuring The Living End
- Time Will Tell – featuring Baby Animals
- Good Times – featuring Keith Urban
- Ride the Night Away – featuring Steven Van Zandt
- Stand Up – featuring Mahalia Barnes and the Soul Mates
- I’d Die to Be with You Tonight – featuring Diesel
- Stone Cold – featuring Tina Arena and Joe Bonamassa
- Working Class Man – featuring Jonathan Cain and Ian Moss
- Going Down Alone – featuring Jonathan Cain, Joe Bonamassa and Meal Schon
- Love and Hate – featuring Shihad
- No Second Prize – featuring The Family Choir
- I’d Rather Be Blind – featuring Jon Stevens
- When Your Love is Gone – featuring Ruby Rodgers and The Tin Lids
- Too Much Ain’t Enough Love – featuring Joe Bonamassa
- I’m Still on Your Side – featuring Bernard Fanning
- Walk On – featuring David Campbell
- The Other Kind – Troy Cassar Daley
1984 – 2010
- No Second Prize
- Daylight
- Working Class Man
- Driving Wheels
- Let’s Make It Last All Night
- Love Is Enough
- When Something Is Wrong with My Baby – featuring John Farnham
- The Weight – featuring The Badloves
- Change of Heart
- Lover Lover
- Out in the Blue
- Red Hot
- Large Pier Hotel
Cold Chisel: Blood Moon
On December 6, 2019, “Cold Chisel Music” label released “Blood Moon”, the ninth Cold Chisel studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Studios 301” and “The Cave Australia” in Sydney, and was produced by Kevin Shirley.
Personnel:
- Jimmy Barnes – vocals
- Ian Moss – guitar
- Don Walker – vocals, piano, organ
- Phil Small – vocals, bass
- Charley Drayton – vocals, drums
- Kevin Shirley – percussion, additional engineering, mixing
- Jade MacRae – backing vocals
- Juanita Tippins – backing vocals
- Mahalia Barnes – backing vocals
- Jesse Deskovic – engineer
- Owen Butcher – engineer
- Ben Rodgers – additional engineering
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Aaron Hayward – art direction, design
- Next Episode – design
Track listing:
All tracks by Jimmy Barnes and Don Walker, except where noted.
- Getting the Band Back Together – Don Walker
- Land of Hope
- Drive
- Killing Time
- I Hit the Wall – Don Walker, Sonny Curtis
- Boundary Street – Don Walker
- Buried Treasure – Charley Drayton, Don Walker
- Accident Phone – Don Walker
- Someday
- You Are So Beautiful – Ian Moss, Lucy Desoto
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