Soul Searchin' (Jimmy Barnes album)

Soul Searchin'
Studio album by
Released3 June 2016
Recorded2015
StudioGrand Victor Sound (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreRock, soul
LabelLiberation Music
Jimmy Barnes chronology
Best of the Soul Years
(2015)
Soul Searchin'
(2016)
Och Aye the G'nu
(2017)

Soul Searchin' is the 16th studio album by Australian singer-songwriter, Jimmy Barnes. The album is Barnes' fourth album of soul and R&B classics following Soul Deep (1991), Soul Deeper... Songs from the Deep South (2000), and The Rhythm and the Blues (2009). The album was announced on 8 May 2016, alongside a one-hour documentary that aired on the Nine Network in June and a national tour that commenced in August. The album was released on 3 June 2016.

The Soul Searchin' documentary followed Barnes to America's south on a discovery of lost soul gems and the musicians who made them and visit the places that inspired them.[1] Barnes said, "The idea was to find more obscure soul songs that people may not have heard – the diamonds in the rough. I was just looking and looking for songs that for one reason or another were skipped over or they were too hard for radio or the singer was cross-eyed – for whatever reason, these songs were missed. I can't wait to get to sing these songs again when I take them on tour. It will be wild."[2][3]

  1. ^ "Jimmy Barnes Creates Documentary For Soul Searchin Album". Noise11. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Jimmy Barnes Is Dropping Another Soul Album, Tour & Doco Announced". themusic.com.au. 8 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Jimmy Barnes Announces New 'Soul Searchin' Album/Doco, National Tour Dates". 9 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.