John Anderson (singer)

John Anderson at the Pike County Fair, Missouri

John Anderson (born December 13, 1954 in Orlando , Orange County , Florida ) is an American country singer.

Life

Anderson moved to his sister Donna in Nashville in 1971 after finishing school . He took on all kinds of odd jobs and performed as a duo with Donna. Just three years later he released his first singles on the small label "Ace Of Hearts". In 1977 he moved to Warner Brothers .

After a few unsuccessful titles, he had his first top 20 hit, Your Lying Blue Eyes , in 1979 . In 1959 he made it into the top 10 in 1980. The following year he had several top 10 hits, including a. by written by the American songwriter and singer Billy Joe Shaver dating I am Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (4th place). A year later, his Wild And Blue from the album of the same name even moved up to number one on the country charts. The final breakthrough came in 1983 with the megahit Swingin ' , another release from the album Wild And Blue , which sold more than a million times, so that the album reached gold status and was also listed in the pop hit parade.

In 1983 he made it to the top of the country charts with the single Black Sheep from the album All The People Are Talking . The record sales of the three other albums at Warner stagnated and Anderson finally switched to MCA in 1987 . The three albums released there were also not a great success. It wasn't until 1992 that he suddenly had another number 1 hit with Straight Tequila Night , a single from his first album Seminole Wind on the then newly founded label BNA. From the double-platinum album, three more releases made it into the charts: When It Comes To You (3rd place), a song written by Mark Knopfler , who also contributed to the album, and Seminole Wind (3rd place) 2) and Let Go Of The Stone (7th place).

In 1993 the also very successful album Solid Ground followed , which was awarded gold. The single Money In The Bank reached the top of the country charts. The compilation Greatest Hits was also awarded gold. As a result, Anderson had to be satisfied with medium to minor successes, which in turn led to a change of record company. In 1997 he signed with Mercury Records and brought out the album Takin 'The Country Back , which, however, did not attract much attention. After another move to Sony Music in 1999, the critically acclaimed album Nobody's Got It All was released , which again did not get the desired commercial response. In 2002 he finally founded his own label John Anderson Records under the patronage of Audium Records and published the Anthology , which contains 30 newly recorded hits from his almost 25-year career.

Anderson was in 2006 a member of the Music Mafia , a group of musicians and songwriters in Nashville, and the following year he presented the album Easy Money that of John Rich , one of the founding fathers of the MuzikMafia and part of the country duo Big & Rich was produced . Anderson, influenced by Merle Haggard , Lefty Frizzell and George Jones , was one of the first "New Traditionalists" to pave the way for a new generation of country musicians like George Strait and Dwight Yoakam .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1980	John Anderson	-	Country61 (7 weeks) Country
1981	John Anderson 2	-	Country25 (25 weeks) Country
	I Just Came Home to Count the Memories	-	Country40 (22 weeks) Country
1982	Wild & Blue	US58 gold (12 weeks)US	Country3 (68 weeks) Country
1983	All the people are talkin '	US163 (5 weeks) US	Country9 (29 weeks) Country
1984	Eye of a hurricane	-	Country3 (39 weeks) Country
1985	Tokyo, Oklahoma	-	Country24 (30 weeks) Country
1986	Countrified	-	Country17 (28 weeks) Country
1987	Blue Skies Again	-	Country41 (19 weeks) Country
1988	10	-	Country51 (9 weeks) Country
1992	Seminole wind	US35 × 2 Double platinum (75 weeks)US	Country10 (137 weeks) Country
1993	Solid ground	US75 gold (20 weeks)US	Country12 (67 weeks) Country
1994	Country 'Til I Die	-	Country43 (36 weeks) Country
1996	Paradise	-	Country40 (6 weeks) Country
1997	Takin 'the Country Back	US138 (4 weeks) US	Country19 (19 weeks) Country
2001	Nobody's Got It All	-	Country64 (1 week) Country
2007	Easy money	US170 (1 week) US	Country36 (4 weeks) Country
2009	Bigger hands	-	Country53 (1 week) Country
2015	Gold mine	-	Country36 (1 week) Country
2020	Years	-	-

More albums

• 1989: Too Tough to Tame
• 1994: Christmas Time

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1984	Greatest hits	US- gold US	Country28 (45 weeks) Country
1998	Great hits	-	Country72 (1 week) Country
2002	Anthology	-	Country65 (6 weeks) Country

More compilations

• 1990: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
• 1994: You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down
• 1997: The Encore Collection
• 1998: The Essential John Anderson
• 2002: RCA Country Legends
• 2004: The Ultimate Hits

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1977	I've Got a Feelin ' (Somebody's Been Stealin')	-	Country62 (8 weeks) Country
1978	Whine, whistle, whine	-	Country69 (5 weeks) Country
	The Girl at the End of the Bar John Anderson	-	Country40 (9 weeks) Country
1979	My Pledge of Love	-	Country41 (8 weeks) Country
	Low Dog Blues John Anderson	-	Country31 (11 weeks) Country
	Your Lying Blue Eyes John Anderson	-	Country15 (16 weeks) Country
1980	She Just Started Liking Cheatin 'Songs John Anderson	-	Country13 (15 weeks) Country
	If There Were No Memories John Anderson	-	Country21 (14 weeks) Country
	1959 John Anderson	-	Country7 (17 weeks) Country
1981	I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) John Anderson 2	-	Country4 (16 weeks) Country
	Chicken Truck John Anderson 2	-	Country8 (13 weeks) Country
	I Love You a Thousand Ways	-	Country54 (2 weeks) Country	B-side of Chicken Truck
	I Just Came Home to Count the Memories I Just Came Home to Count the Memories	-	Country7 (18 weeks) Country
1982	Would You Catch a Falling Star I Just Came Home to Count the Memories	-	Country6 (19 weeks) Country
	Wild and Blue Wild & Blue	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
1983	Swingin ' Wild & Blue	US43 gold (13 weeks)US	Country1 (22 weeks) Country
	Goin 'Down Hill Wild & Blue	-	Country5 (17 weeks) Country
	Black Sheep All the People Are Talkin '	-	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
1984	Let Somebody Else Drive All the People Are Talkin '	-	Country10 (16 weeks) Country
	I Wish I Could Write You a Song Eye of a Hurricane	-	Country14 (20 weeks) Country
	She Sure Got Away with My Heart Eye of a Hurricane	-	Country3 (25 weeks) Country
1985	Eye of a Hurricane Eye of a Hurricane	-	Country20 (17 weeks) Country
	It's All Over Now Tokyo, Oklahoma	-	Country15 (17 weeks) Country
	Tokyo, Oklahoma Tokyo, Oklahoma	-	Country30 (14 weeks) Country
	Down in Tennessee Tokyo, Oklahoma	-	Country12 (22 weeks) Country
1986	You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down	-	Country31 (11 weeks) Country
	Honky Tonk Crowd Countrified	-	Country10 (22 weeks) Country
1987	Countrified Countrified	-	Country44 (12 weeks) Country
	What's So Different About You Countrified	-	Country55 (8 weeks) Country
	When Your Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue Blue Skies Again	-	Country48 (8 weeks) Country
1988	Somewhere Between Ragged and Right Blue Skies Again	-	Country23 (15 weeks) Country	with Waylon Jennings
	It's Hard to Keep This Ship Together Blue Skies Again	-	Country65 (4 weeks) Country
	If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It 10	-	Country35 (12 weeks) Country
	Down in the Orange Grove 10	-	Country68 (4 weeks) Country
1989	Lower on the Hog 10	-	Country73 (4 weeks) Country
	Who's Lovin 'My Baby Too Tough to Tame	-	Country66 (5 weeks) Country
1991	Who Got Our Love Seminole Wind	-	Country67 (3 weeks) Country
	Straight Tequila Night Seminole Wind	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
1992	When It Comes to You Seminole Wind	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
	Seminole Wind Seminole Wind	-	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Let Go of the Stone Seminole Wind	-	Country7 (20 weeks) Country
1993	Money in the Bank Solid Ground	-	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	I fell in the water solid ground	-	Country13 (20 weeks) Country
	I've Got It Made Solid Ground	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
1994	I Wish I Could Have Been There Solid Ground	-	Country4 (20 weeks) Country
	Country 'Til I Die Country' Til I Die	-	Country35 (10 weeks) Country
	Bend It Until It Breaks Country 'Til I Die	-	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
1995	Mississippi Moon Country 'Til I Die	-	Country15 (20 weeks) Country
1996	Paradise Paradise	-	Country26 (20 weeks) Country
	Long Hard Lesson Learned Paradise	-	Country51 (10 weeks) Country
	My Kind of Crazy Paradise	-	Country67 (4 weeks) Country
1997	Somebody Slap Me Takin 'the Country Back	-	Country22 (20 weeks) Country
	Small Town Takin 'the Country Back	-	Country44 (11 weeks) Country
1998	Takin 'the Country Back Takin' the Country Back	-	Country41 (12 weeks) Country
2000	You Ain't Hurt Nothin 'Yet Nobody’s Got It All	-	Country56 (8 weeks) Country
	Nobody's Got It All Nobody’s Got It All	-	Country55 (9 weeks) Country
2006	If Her Lovin 'Don't Kill Me Nobody’s Got It All	-	Country59 (1 week) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
1994	Christmas Time Christmas Time	-	Country57 (2 weeks) Country

More singles

• 1975: Swoop Down Sweet Jesus
• 1990: Tryin 'to Make a Livin' on the Road
• 2001: The Big Revival
• 2001: It Ain't Easy Being Me
• 2007: A Woman Knows
• 2009: Cold Coffee & Hot Beer
• 2009: Bigger Hands
• 2015: I Work a Lot Better
• 2015: Don't Forget to Thank the Lord
• 2015: Magic Mama

Awards

year	Org.	Award	title
1983	CMA	Horizon Award
1983	CMA	Single Of The Year	Swingin '
1984	TNN	Song Of The Year	Swingin '
1994	ACM	Career Achievement

Web links

• Artist's website
• Artist portrait of John Anderson in German
• Biography on sonynashville.com
• Biography on CMT.com

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: US
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Music Sales Awards: US