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Format: CD
Jun 1993
Record Label: BNA
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 078636623221 |
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Track Listing
1. Money in the Bank
2. I've Got It Made
3. I Fell in the Water
4. Bad Love Gone Good
5. All Things to All Things
6. Where I Come From
7. I Wish I Could Have Been There
8. Nashville Tears - (bonus track)
9. Can't Get Away From You
10. Solid Ground
| Details | | Producer: | James Stroud, John Anderson | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: John Anderson (vocals, electric guitar), Larry Byrom (acoustic guitar), Dann Huff (electric guitar), Buddy Emmons (steel guitar), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Joe Spivey (fiddle, mandolin, banjo), Matt Rollings, Gary Prim (piano), Gary Smith (keyboards), Barry Beckett (Hammond B-3 organ), Glenn Worf (bass), Eddie Bayers, James Stroud (drums), Curtis Wright, Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young (background vocals).
Recorded at Sound Stage Studios and Mesa Recording, Nashville, Tennessee.
The title says it all for this album by country music's "Comeback Kid." After experiencing several peaks and valleys in his career, John Anderson holds a steady course with his brand of new-traditionalist fare.
SOLID GROUND opens as if on a bucking bronco, with the hit "Money In The Bank," a tour de force for Anderson's nasal, warbling style. Anderson's ballads are solid as well, and are best exemplified by "I Wish I Could Have Been There," a nostalgic reminiscence on the growth of his children sung in a grand style. There is also a potent stab at country-rock with the compact and melodic "Good Love Gone Bad," contributed by the members of Blackhawk.
Many of the album's songs focus on the traditional aspects of modern country music, particularly the sounds of steadfast fiddles and moaning steel guitars. Thematically, as well, Anderson relies on life's conventional vistas--singing about love, work and unadorned down-home aspirations. Yet it is his rolling, Lefty Frizzell-influenced vocals, and his gnawing, cry 'n twang delivery that truly set John Anderson on SOLID GROUND.
Industry Reviews
Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - p.83 - Ty Burr
...some of the best music of [his] career...
Musician (08/01/1993)
...[Anderson's] stirring comeback with last year's SEMINOLE WIND is reinforced...
Rolling Stone (08/19/1993)
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