Easy Money [Enhanced]

John Anderson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000OCXM6S
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,519 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Easy Money

2. A Woman Knows

3. Funky Country

4. Bonnie Blue

5. If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me

6. Something To Drink About

7. Weeds

8. You Already Know MY Love

9. Brown Liquor

10. I Can't Make Her Cry Anymore

11. Willie's Guitar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JOHN ANDERSON IS BACK IN A BIG WAY!!!, June 9, 2007

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ILU "roxy55" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Money (Audio CD)

John Anderson has always been one of the great voices in country music and since his start in the early `80s has racked up an impressive list of great albums. His distinctive country baritone and singing style can hardly be compared to anybody else in the country music business and on his new album "Easy Money" you can hear that John is still in fine voice and remained true to his sound and country roots. 6 of the 11 songs are co-written by John Anderson and although he has giving John Rich full production credits, this album turned out to be a classic sounding John Anderson album.

With this CD John Anderson is giving you everything you are longing for as a true country music lover. A great mix of songs from strong country rockers as "Easy Money", "Funcky Country", or "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me", to toe-tipping Honky Tonk tunes like "Brown Liquor", and "Something To Drink About" until outstanding ballads as the wonderful "A Woman Knows", the moanful "Bonny Blue", or heartfelt ones like "Weeds", and "I Can't Make Her Cry Anymore", as well as the emotional "You Already Know My Love" (which is my favourite together with "Weeds") and the Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard collaboration of "Willie's Guitar" make this album worth every cent. There is not a bad song on here and you will love them all!

Florida boy John Anderson has always been an underrated superstar of country music. Now I am hoping that his new album "Easy Money" will help to pick up his career again and give him back the attention he deserves so much.

Do yourself a favor and get you a copy of "Easy Money" right now! If not, you will be sorry for missing one of the best country music releases of 2007.

God bless John Anderson and his wonderful music!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Effort, May 19, 2007

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Paul W. Dennis (Winter Springs, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Money (Audio CD)

John Anderson and George Strait are about the only two with a high profile left from the generation of male singers that came to prominence in the early 1980s. Obviously Strait has been the more successful but John Anderson is the superior balladeer.

Here, John Anderson returns with his first CD of new recordings in several years, this time with John Rich of Big & Rich serving as producer. Fortunately. Rich stays largely out of the way and lets Anderson focus on that which he does best, as seven of the CD's eleven songs are ballads.

First some consumer advice. Upon inserting the CD into your player, troll over to track 11, "Willie's Guitar" and give it a few listens as John, Merle Haggard (vocal) and Willie Nelson (vocal & a guitar solo) work their magic on this wistful tale which, curiously enough, wasn't written by either John, Merle or Willie. No matter, as writers John Phillips and Ray Stephenson certainly caught the essense of heartbreak and resignation.

First the "bad": the uptempo songs "Easy Money" , "Funky Country" and "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" are merely okay - worth 3 or 3.5 stars each. These three songs are the ones on which the John Rich "Muzik Mafia" sound is the most in evidence.

Now the really good: The fourth uptempo number, however, "Brown Liquor" is really excellent, on a par with John's best uptempo numbers like "Black Sheep", "Chicken Truck" or "Swingin'"

Aside from the John & Merle & Willie offering, John has six really, really good solo ballads; in fact,I don't think John Anderson has ever done wrong by a ballad in his life. For me the highlights are "A Woman Knows", a sensitive John Rich-Julie Roberts penned ballad along the lines of Johnny Darrell's 1969 hit "A Woman Without Love" and John Anderson's song about about a woman's threat to her wayward husband that she'll give him "Something To Drink About". "Weeds" penned by Anderson and his late friend Lionel Delmore, might prove to be the favorite ballad from the CD for many listeners.

All in all, a very pleasant surprise as I was having nightmares about how a John Rich-produced CD might sound. Fortunately, it sounds like John Anderson being John Anderson, and it doesn't get much better than that

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JAW Review, July 4, 2007

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Jerald A. Windsor (kansas city, mo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Money (Audio CD)

John Anderson is back & better than ever. You can't help missing his sooth voice. Even if you you don't like country, you must get this album.