John Anderson Album: “Anthology”

In the early Eighties, John Anderson was one of the few country artists I listened to. Singles like "I'm Just and Old Chunk of Coal," "Would you Catch a Fallin' Star" and "Swingin'" were honest country songs. When I came across this collection, it seemed to good to be true...turns out it was. These are solid performances of these songs with Anderson and his road band which has been together with no personnel changes in the past nine years. But the bottom line is that these are not the original hit versions of these songs. In fact, nowhere in the liner notes--or anywhere else in the CD booklet--does it explicity say these are re-recordings (perhaps that's why allmusic.com was quick to give this a 5-star rating), but one listen makes it obvious. So if you're looking for a collection of original hit recordings, this isn't it. If you're looking for faithful remakes, you won't be disappointed. Just don't be fooled like I was.

I really don't mind the fact that these songs are REMAKES. They sound all right to me.

THE TOTALLY DISGUSTING PART is that the cover tells you this fact ON THE BACK in LETTERS THE SAME SIZE AS THE FINE PRINT that comes at the bottom of every CD jacket. The letters are even COLORED so they blend in with the art work so that you will surely not notice the fact until after you have bought the damn CD!

If you're going to update your songs, why do you need to disguise the fact?

This is DECEPTION, people!

JOHN, YOU AND YOUR RECORD COMPANY SHOULD BE ASHAMED!

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I see all the crazy reviews on here giving John the boot cause of re recordings of his own songs from older albums from other record labels.

Whats the Big deal with this people,I mean come on. First off, It's His songs, he's singing them, their all there in 1 convient 2 disk set, which in itself has multiple pluses. Newly updated musical conpositions for some of his works and made for a new generation of fans to enjoy. Harping about this set not being original recordings is kinda like going to 1 of his concerts and saying it's a rip off or something too. It's Him for pete sakes and it sounds better in many cases than the originals.

So Shame on all you reviewers saying that crap about this cd set.

One More thing If ya read this page John. Lake Winnie Rocked buddy. Stay safe and God bless to you and Yours Always.

John Anderson did a real nice job rerecording his hits. The sound of the album is clean, the musicians are top notch, and Anderson himself is in fine voice. Just be aware, these are not the original recordings that you may remember from the radio. A new take on some great material.

This should have been a classic set, instead its all remakes.

It's amazing that John has not had a worthy anthology.

Let's get with it !