All the People Are Talkin'

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All The People Are Talkin'
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Studio album by
John Anderson
ReleasedSeptember 1983
GenreCountry
Length29:16
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
ProducerLou Bradley
John Anderson chronology
Wild & Blue
(1982) 		All The People Are Talkin'
(1983) 		Eye of a Hurricane
(1984)
Singles from All the People Are Talkin'
  1. "Black Sheep"
    Released: September 1983
  2. "Let Somebody Else Drive"
    Released: January 14, 1984
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[1]
American Songwriter3.5/5 stars[2]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 stars[5]

All The People Are Talkin' is the fifth studio album by country artist John Anderson.[6] It was released in 1983 under Warner Bros. Records.[5] Singles from it include the Number One country hit "Black Sheep" and "Let Somebody Else Drive".

Critical reception[]

PopMatters called the songs "upbeat, bluesy pop-rock numbers that still sound thoroughly country in Anderson's hands."[7] Chuck Eddy, in The Village Voice, called All the People Are Talkin' "raucous" and Anderson's "only real hair-up-the-butt rock'n'roll album."[8]

Track listing[]

  1. "All The People Are Talkin'" (Fred Carter, Jr.) - 2:41
  2. "Blue Lights And Bubbles" (Ken McDuffie) - 2:41
  3. "Haunted House" (Robert Geddins) - 3:13
  4. "Look What Followed Me Home" (Becky Hobbs, Mark Sherrill) - 3:19
  5. "Black Sheep" (Robert Altman, Daniel Darst) - 2:59
  6. "Let Somebody Else Drive" (Merle Kilgore, Mack Vickery) - 2:38
  7. "An Occasional Eagle" (Carter) - 3:47
  8. "Things Ain't Been the Same Around the Farm" (John Anderson, "Wild" Bill Emerson) - 2:23
  9. "Call On Me" (Anderson) - 2:38
  10. "Old Mexico" (Anderson, Lionel Delmore, Larry Emmons) - 2:57

Personnel[]

Charts[]

References[]

  1. ^ All the People Are Talkin' at AllMusic
  2. ^ "JOHN ANDERSON > All the People are Talkin'; I Just Came Home to Count the Memories; Eye of a Hurricane; Tokyo, Oklahoma; Countrified « American Songwriter". American Songwriter. March 1, 2008.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 1: MUZE. p. 178.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 15.
  6. ^ Harrison, Thomas (June 16, 2011). Music of the 1980s. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313366000 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Survival of the Fittest: The Hard Country of John Anderson". PopMatters. April 10, 2008.
  8. ^ Eddy, Chuck (August 25, 2016). Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822373896 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "John Anderson Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  10. ^ "John Anderson Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  11. ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1984". Billboard. Retrieved January 29, 2021.



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