So when we talk about writing songs for other voices, Jimmy inevitably enters the conversation. His solo records also give Walker room to go places that simply wouldn’t work within Cold Chisel. The friends who remain in the songs There is another presence on Love Songs that matters enormously to Walker. “There are moments, you know,” Walker says. Groping in the fog For somebody whose songs have become stitched into Australian culture, Walker is unsentimental about how they were created.