Jimmy Farrar (703 views)

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James Edwin Farrar (8 December 1950 - 29 October 2018)
Member of: Molly Hatchet (1980 - 1982), Gator Country (2005 - 2008)
Vocal Range: D3 - B4

Despite being overshadowed by the image of the other two singers in Molly Hatchet, Jimmy is mostly incomparable to them in his approach to singing, favouring a much more distorted yet resonant and belty style throughout his two albums with the band. This much more technical and savvy use of his voice arguably elevated Molly Hatchet to a new sort of relevancy in the '80s, having to reinvent their sound to accommodate for Jimmy's vastly different style of singing and reflecting the rock belters of the era more aptly than any other southern rock singer could.

Despite his apparent belting prowess, Farrar rarely, if ever, showed off any sort of low range to his voice and whether he'd have explored his limits much further had he stayed afloat post-Molly Hatchet is truly something to wonder as out of the three frontmen he perhaps had the greatest potential for a unique but technical vocal style with different types of songwriting.

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{Vocal Range Timeline}Molly Hatchet:
Beatin' the Odds (1980): E♭3 - B♭4 - B4
Take No Prisoners (1981): E3 - A4 - B4

Significant High Notes:

B4 ("Don't Leave Me Lonely", "Long Tall Sally", "Sailor")
B♭4 ("Double Talker", "Few and Far Between", "Oh, Atlanta", "Penthouse Pauper")
A4 ("Beatin' the Odds", "Bounty Hunter" Gator Country Live, "Dreams I'll Never See" Gator Country Live, "Flirtin' With Disaster" Gator Country Live, "Gator Country" Gator Country Live, "Oh, Atlanta", "One Man's Pleasure" Gator Country Live, "The Rambler", "Respect Me in the Morning", "Whiskey Man" Gator Country Live)
G♯4 ("Boogie No More" Gator Country Live, "Don't Mess Around", "Dreams I'll Never See" Gator Country Live, "Penthouse Pauper", "Sailor")
G4 ("Bloody Reunion", "Dead Giveaway", "Don't Leave Me Lonely", "Don't Mess Around", "Double Talker", "Few and Far Between", "Gator Country" Gator Country Live, "It's All Over Now" Gator Country Live, "Long Tall Sally", "Loss of Control", "Oh, Atlanta", "One Man's Pleasure" Gator Country Live, "The Rambler", "Respect Me in the Morning", "Sailor")
F♯4 ("Beatin' the Odds", "Bloody Reunion", "Bounty Hunter" Gator Country Live, "Don't Leave Me Lonely", "Flirtin' With Disaster" Gator Country Live, "Get Her Back", "It's All Over Now" Gator Country Live, "Long Tall Sally", "Poison Pen")

Significant Low Notes:

F♯3 ("Beatin' the Odds", "Bounty Hunter" Gator Country Live, "Get Her Back", "Lady Luck", "Loss of Control", "Poison Pen")
F3 ("Dead Giveaway", "Double Talker", "Dreams I'll Never See" Gator Country Live, "Gator Country" Gator Country Live, "Oh, Atlanta")
E3 ("Bounty Hunter" Gator Country Live, "Get Her Back", "Poison Pen", "Power Play")
E♭3 ("Double Talker")
D3 ("Gator Country" Gator Country Live)

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{Questionable Notes}D5 ("Beatin' the Odds"^[1a], "Get Her Back"^[1a])
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[1] Questionable quality.
a. Ambiguously pitched "ow"s.

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