JOHN ANDERSON (MUSICIAN)

'John Anderson' (born December 13, 1954 in Apopka, Florida) is an American neotraditionalist country music singer-songwriter.

Contents

Career

Personal Life

Discography

Studio Albums

Compilations

Singles

External link

Career

John first traveled to Nashville in 1972 at the age of 17, eventually signing with Warner Bros. Records in 1976. He first hit the record charts in 1980 during the "Urban Cowboy" era in Nashville. His decidedly backwoods accent and distinctive vocal timbre helped land him in the forefront of the "New Traditionalist" movement with artists like Ricky Skaggs and Reba McEntire.
In 1983 his career rose on the strength of his million selling hit "Swingin" earning him two Country Music Association awards. However a few years later his career cooled off until the 1992 release of his double platinum selling album ''Seminole Wind''. His 1993 follow-up effort "Solid Ground" reached gold selling status along with his original "Greatest Hits" album released in 1984.
John has accumulated five number one hits and twenty-three top-ten hits in his career. He has had commercial success with hard country songs like "Your Lying Blue Eyes" and the Billy Joe Shaver penned "I'm Just An Old Chunk of Coal" as well as more lighthearted efforts like "Black Sheep" and "Goin' Down Hill." In 1993 he received the Academy of Country Music's Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2007, John has become an honorary member of the MuzikMafia.

Personal Life

Anderson makes his home in Smithville, Tennessee, approximately 50 miles southeast of Nashville with his third wife Jamie (married in 1983) and has two daughters, Brionna and Alexa.

Discography

Studio Albums

★ ''John Anderson'' (1980)

★ ''John Anderson 2'' (1981)

★ ''I Just Came Home To Count The Memories'' (1981)

★ ''Wild & Blue'' (1982)

★ ''All The People Are Talkin''' (1983)

★ ''Eye Of A Hurricane'' (1984)

★ ''Tokyo, Oklahoma'' (1985)

★ ''Blue Skies Again'' (1987)

★ ''Countrified'' (1987)

★ ''10'' (1988)

★ ''Too Tough To Tame'' (1990)

★ ''Seminole Wind'' (1992)

★ ''Solid Ground'' (1993)

★ ''You Can't Keep A Good Memory Down'' (1994)

★ ''Christmas Time'' (1994)

★ ''Country 'till I Die'' (1994)

★ ''Paradise'' (1996)

★ ''Takin' The Country Back'' (1997)

★ ''Nobody's Got It All'' (2001)

★ ''Somehow, Someway, Someday'' (2002)

★ ''Mississippi Rainstorm'' (2003)

★ ''Easy Money'' (2007)

Compilations

★ ''Greatest Hits'' (1984)

★ ''Greatest Hits II'' (1990)

★ ''Country Comfort'' (1993)

★ ''Swingin' (1995)

★ ''Greatest Hits'' (1996)

★ ''The Encore Collection'' (1997)

★ ''Super Hits'' (1998)

★ ''The Essential John Anderson'' (1998)

★ ''Backtracks'' (1999)

★ ''John Anderson'' (2002)

★ ''RCA Country Legends'' (2002)

★ ''Anthology'' (2002)

★ ''The Ultimate Hits'' (2004)

★ ''Country Classics'' (2006)

Singles

Year	Title	Album	US Country	Hot 100
1977	"I've Got a Feelin' (Somebody's Been Stealin')"		62
1978	"Whine, Whistle, Whine"		69
1978	"My Pledge of Love"		41
1978	"The Girl at the End of the Bar"	''John Anderson''	40
1979	"Low Dog Blues"	''John Anderson''	31
1979	"Your Lying Blue Eyes"	''John Anderson''	15
1980	"She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs"	''John Anderson''	13
1980	"If There Were No Memories"	''John Anderson''	21
1980	"1959"	''John Anderson''	7
1981	"I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)"	''John Anderson 2''	4
1981	"Chicken Truck"	''John Anderson 2''	8
1981	"I Love You a Thousand Ways"	''John Anderson 2''	54
1982	"I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"	''I Just Came Home to Count the Memories''	7
1982	"I Danced With the San Antonio Rose"A	''I Just Came Home to Count the Memories''
1982	"Would You Catch a Falling Star"	''I Just Came Home to Count the Memories''	6
1982	"Wild and Blue"	''Wild and Blue''	1
1983	"Swingin'"	''Wild and Blue''	1	43
1983	"Goin' Down Hill"	''Wild and Blue''	5
1983	"Black Sheep"	''All the People Are Talkin'	1
1984	"Let Somebody Else Drive"	''All the People Are Talkin'	10
1984	"I Wish I Could Write You a Song"	''Eye of a Hurricane''	14
1984	"She Sure Got Away With My Heart"	''Eye of a Hurricane''	3
1985	"Eye of a Hurricane"	''Eye of a Hurricane''	20
1985	"Down in Tennessee"	''Tokyo, Oklahoma''	12
1985	"It's All Over Now"	''Tokyo, Oklahoma''	15
1985	"Tokyo, Oklahoma"	''Tokyo, Oklahoma''	30
1986	"You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down"	''Greatest Hits, Vol. 2''	31
1986	"Honky Tonk Crowd"	''Countrified''	10
1986	"Countrified"	''Countrified''	44
1987	"What's So Different About You"	''Countrified''	55
1987	"Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (feat. Waylon Jennings)	''Blue Skies Again''	23
1987	"When Your Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue"	''Blue Skies Again''	48
1988	"It's Hard to Keep This Ship Together"	''Blue Skies Again''	65
1988	"Down in the Orange Grove"	''Ten''	68
1988	"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"	''Ten''	35
1989	"Lower on the Hog"	''Ten''	73
1989	"Who's Lovin' My Baby"	''Too Tough to Tame''	66
1991	"Who Got Our Love"	''Seminole Wind''	67
1991	"Straight Tequila Night"	''Seminole Wind''	1
1992	"When It Comes to You"	''Seminole Wind''	3
1992	"Seminole Wind"B	''Seminole Wind''	2
1992	"Let Go of the Stone"	''Seminole Wind''	7
1993	"Money in the Bank"	''Solid Ground''	1
1993	"I Fell in the Water"	''Solid Ground''	13
1994	"I've Got It Made"	''Solid Ground''	3
1994	"I Wish I Could Have Been There"	''Solid Ground''	4
1994	"Country 'Til I Die"	''Country 'Til I Die''	35
1994	"Bend It Until It Breaks"	''Country 'Til I Die''	3
1994	"Christmas Time"	''Christmas Time''	57
1995	"Mississippi Moon"	''Country 'Til I Die''	15
1995	"Paradise"	''Paradise''	26
1996	"Long Hard Lesson Learned"	''Paradise''	51
1996	"My Kind of Crazy"	''Paradise''	67
1997	"Somebody Slap Me"	''Takin' the Country Back''	22	115
1998	"Takin' the Country Back"	''Takin' the Country Back''	44
1998	"Small Town"	''Takin' the Country Back''	41
2000	"You Ain't Hurt Nothin' Yet"	''Nobody's Got It All''	56
2000	"Nobody's Got It All"	''Nobody's Got It All''	55
2006	"If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me"	''Easy Money''	59
2007	"A Woman Knows"A	''Easy Money''

★ ^AFailed to chart.

★ ^BReached #1 on ''Radio & Records'' country music charts.

External link

★ John Anderson's biography at CMT.com