John Anderson still has one of the most recognizable voices in country music, and listening to Years is like hearing an old friend tell you stories and sing you songs about the lessons he’s learned in life. The singer who […]
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First charting in 1977 and coming on strong by 1980, John Anderson was a harbinger of the New Traditionalist movement that hit Nashville in the mid-’80s, a young man with an old man’s voice — his unfettered, adenoidal baritone tore […]
The careers of too many country singers can be condensed into greatest-hits packages, and with reason. John Anderson’s early work is a notable exception. Yes, the hits are here, both “Old Chunk Of Coal” and “Chicken Truck”. But this is […]
Ordinarily, the release of a country star’s latest greatest hits package into the marektplace would hardly be cause for comment. And yet there is more to John Anderson than his first major hit, “Swingin’”, and its current unhappy echo, “Somebody […]
John David Anderson is usually placed with a loose group of “new traditionalists,” including Ricky Skaggs, George Strait and Randy Travis, all of whom produced a string of commercially successful and surprisingly deep country-grounded records during the early ’80s. Anderson’s […]
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