The Rhythm and the Blues Songs From the Deep South". It features cover versions of tracks from throughout the late 1940s to the 1960s, with songs by the likes of Ray Charles, Little Richard, Ike & Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone. The Rhythm and the Blues The Rhythm and the Blues is the fifteenth solo studio album by Australian rock musician Jimmy Barnes, released through Liberation Music on 28 August 2009. The album was produced by Don Gehman in Los Angeles and peaked at number one on the Australian Albums Chart for two weeks. "The Rhythm and the Blues" was Barnes'
Rhythm and blues performers and standard forms, particularly blues rock musician Alexis Korner, who acted as a mentor to members of the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Graham Bond Organisation and the Kinks. Although this "purist" interest in the blues would influence major British rock musicians, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green and Jimmy Page, other artists adopted an interest in a wider range of rhythm and blues styles. Most successful were the Rolling Stones, whose first eponymously titled album in 1964 largely consisted of rhythm and blues songs. They soon established themselves as the second most popular UK band