All the People Are Talkin' explained

All the People Are Talkin'
Type:Studio album
Artist:John Anderson
Cover:1983johnandersonatpat.jpg
Released:September 1983
Genre:Country
Length:29:16
Label:Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer:Lou Bradley
Prev Title:Wild & Blue
Prev Year:1982
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Next Year:1984

All The People Are Talkin' is the fifth studio album by American country music artist John Anderson.[1] It was released in 1983 under Warner Bros. Records. 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."[2] 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."[3]

Personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Book: Harrison, Thomas. Music of the 1980s. June 16, 2011. ABC-CLIO. 9780313366000. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Survival of the Fittest: The Hard Country of John Anderson. April 10, 2008. PopMatters.
  3. Book: Eddy, Chuck. Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music. August 25, 2016. Duke University Press. 9780822373896. Google Books.
  4. Top Country Albums – Year-End 1984. Billboard. January 29, 2021.