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Paradise (John Anderson album)

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Released
  
January 30, 1996

Artist
  
John Anderson

Label
  
BNA Records

Paradise (1996)
  
Greatest Hits (1996)

Release date
  
30 January 1996

Genre
  
Country music

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Producers
  
James Stroud, John Anderson

Similar
  
John Anderson albums, Country music albums

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Paradise is the sixteenth studio album of country music artist John Anderson. It was released in 1996 under the BNA Records label. The album produced the singles: "Paradise" (also recorded by Pirates of the Mississippi on their 1995 album Paradise), which peaked at 26 on United States Country charts and 21 on Canadian charts, "Long Hard Lesson Learned", which peaked at 51 and "My Kind of Crazy", which peaked at 67.

Contents

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Critical reception

Sara Sytsma of Allmusic rated the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "featur[es] a handful of great songs that cancel out the fair amount of filler on the record." Chet Flippo of Billboard called it "traditional, uncompromising John Anderson country".

Track listing

  1. "Paradise" (Bob McDill, Roger Murrah) - 2:46
  2. "Long Hard Lesson Learned" (John Anderson, Donna Anderson, Michael A. Anderson) - 3:26
  3. "The Band Plays On" (Fred Knobloch, Gary Scruggs) - 3:51
  4. "My Kind of Crazy" (John Jarrard, Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson) - 2:42
  5. "Let the Guitar Do the Talkin'" (Kelly Garrett, Craig Wiseman) - 3:41
  6. "30,000 Feet" (J. Anderson, Troy Seals) - 3:00
  7. "It Wouldn't Kill Me" (Larry Boone, Paul Nelson, Tom Shapiro) - 3:07
  8. "Love Comes Back Around" (J. Anderson, D. Anderson, M. Anderson) - 3:21
  9. "Bad Weather" (J. Anderson, Lionel Delmore) - 4:09
  10. "They Spent Forever" (J. Anderson, Delmore) - 3:28

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

  • John Anderson – acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
  • Eddie Bayers – drums
  • Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
  • Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
  • Darel DeCounter – Hammond B-3 organ
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar, Dobro
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar, Dobro
  • Levon Helm – background vocals on "The Band Plays On"
  • Dann Huff – electric guitar
  • Mark Knopfler – electric guitar on "Let the Guitar Do the Talkin'"
  • Matt Rollings – piano
  • John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
  • Gary Smith – piano
  • Joe Spivey – fiddle, mandolin
  • Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
  • Lonnie Wilson – drums
  • Glenn Worf – bass guitar
  • Curtis Wright – background vocals
  • Curtis Young – background vocals
  • Songs

    1Paradise2:47
    2Long Hard Lesson Learned3:23
    3The Band Plays On3:51

    References

    Paradise (John Anderson album) Wikipedia


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