Little River Band will take to the Palace stage in Manchester on Friday, July 13.

Originally hailing from Australia, the band was formed in Melbourne in 1975, though most members in the current line-up live stateside.

Their chart successes include the hits “Lonesome Loser,” “Cool Change,” “Lady” and “Help Is On Its Way.”

Of its members, three currently hail from Nashville, which bass player and lead vocalist Wayne Nelson described as “a city with a very diverse musical scene.”

“When it came down to find new players a few years ago, I was living there and had gone through a time when LRB players were spread out all over the globe. I hoped to find musicians with a like experience to mine, having cut their teeth on a wide variety of styles.”

Today, the band enjoys more success in American than Australia.

“Very much so,” Nelson has said. “There’s no question and it’s always been that way. When the band was ‘up and coming,’ and starting to reach for international success, they made it very, very clear and very known that the intent was to capture the American market.”

Nelson said that as success continued in the U.S., there was a buzz and a curiosity factor.

“After a couple of years of success in Australia, the income and the tour dates started weighing very heavily towards America, “ he said. “Our tour schedule became less and less in Australia. Far and away, America is the band’s most popular country.”

Like many bands that have endured more than three decades of touring and recording, LRB continues to deliver what fans want, and in 2006, they even re-recorded some of their biggest hits, with the popular album, aptly titled, “Re-arranged.”

“Over the last few years, there has been some new blood in the band,” Nelson said recently. We’ve done new material with the players in a different direction than the way that the band used to construct their songs. It gets a very good response, an energetic response and it reflects the sound of the 2000s as opposed to the ’70s and ’80s.”

The result, Nelson noted, is combination of Little River Band’s greatest hits and the live energy experienced in concert.

“We were constantly getting feedback from people going through the line when we sign things after the show,” he said. “And they were asking, ‘Where can I get that show?’ So we decided to go into the studio and put that energy into this CD.”

Audiences have also long recognized the importance of harmony within the band.

“We thrive on presenting voices and instruments in a harmonic way,” Nelson recently said. “We sing like a horn section. On record and live, that has a power that is very human. Generations that heard that kind of melodic structure when they were their musical taste still crave it. We give it.”

The Palace Theatre is located at 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets are $59.50 with a pre-show meet and greet, $39.50 and $29.50, and may be be purchased online at www.palacetheatretickets.org or by calling 668-5588.