Well in the start, J.B.E was the Julian Barnet Ensemble, with Julian Barnett (lead guitar), Billy Thackray (hand drums), Anthony Mellor (bass) and Ray Smith (singer/songwriter). After Ray Smith left the band and went to Queensland, all it took was a phone call from Julian to Chris Davies and they had themselves a new singer/songwriter acoustic guitarist and a new name, the new band still wanted to keep the J.B.E but not the name, so they decided on JustaBoutEverything. The band has gone through many changes since then, from band members, to the style and vision of were the bands heading, but the latest version of the band is, Chris Davies and Julian Barnet (who plays all the solos) both from England, Ben Davies from Adelaide who did Fill in vocals, Andy Salvanos from Sweden who played bass guitar, Andy Cummins from Adelaide the drummer and Padmar Newsome played electric violin which was a new sound for the band. The band was formed in Adelaide.
While in Britain Chris Davies was a solo performing Folk rocker, who was a regular guest at the prestigious Cambridge Folk Festival, he has supported bands like Fairport Convention & solo artists such as Sandy Denny & John Martin, returning to Australia in 1977. Julian Barnett grew up in Whyalla, he moved to Adelaide were in 1994 he was awarded the South Australian Music Industry Award for best guitarist, he has also composed the music for three short films. Andy Salvanos (bassist) made his name as a session player in LA in the middle 80’s.
The band plays an Acoustic Rock style, sometimes described as being gravel burning acoustic music, formed from influences like Blues to Ballads, Rock, Jazz, Country & the singer-Songwriter tradition. Producing two albums so far, the first, JustaBoutEverything (self titled) and the latest album titled I’ll change released in 1997, consisting of 12 songs two of which were re-recorded off their first album. A little has been said about each song in the 'I'll change' cover sleeve; for instance the song ‘Michael’ Chris writes:
Michael was a violinist in the orchestra pit during the silent movie days. The story I heard was that when he lost his job he also lost touch with our reality & wandered the streets of London talking to himself for fifty years. I met him when he was about seventy-five & by that time he was chasing cars, sleeping in the streets & stringing his violin with string (twine). Once in a while he’d play 10 or 15 minutes of the most hauntingly beautiful music & then drop back into gibberish. This song is about the 10 minutes that I understood.
