Countrified (John Anderson album) - Composition

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Countrified is the eighth studio album of country music artist John Anderson. It was released on October 6, 1986. It was his last studio album for Warner Bros. Records before leaving for MCA Nashville in 1987. The album featured "The Fightin' Side of Me", a song written and originally recorded by country singer Merle Haggard as well as a cover of the gospel standard "Peace in the Valley."

Countrified

Studio album by

John Anderson

Released

October 6, 1986

Genre

Country

Length

36:16

Label

Warner Bros. Nashville

Producer

Jim Ed Norman

John Anderson chronology

Tokyo, Oklahoma
(1985)

Countrified
(1986)

Blue Skies Again
(1987)

Singles from Countrified

"Honky Tonk Crowd"
Released: August 4, 1986
"Countrified"
Released: December 1986
"What's So Different About You"
Released: March 1987

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Countrified"	Tom Lazaros	3:27
2.	"What’s So Different About You"	John Anderson, Fred Carter Jr.	3:30
3.	"Yellow Creek"	Ken McDuffie	3:43
4.	"If I Could Have My Way"	Anderson, Carter	3:39
5.	"Do You Have a Garter Belt"	Tony Joe White	3:02
6.	"Honky Tonk Crowd"	Larry Cordle, Lionel Delmore	3:43
7.	"The Fighting Side of Me"	Merle Haggard	3:02
8.	"Wife’s Little Pleasures"	Buck Moore, Tony Stampley, Mentor Williams	4:03
9.	"You Can’t Judge a Book (By the Cover)"	Willie Dixon	4:24
10.	"Peace in the Valley"	Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey	3:43

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	17

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country
1986	"Honky Tonk Crowd"	10	7
1987	"Countrified"	44	31
1987	"What's So Different About You"	55	—

References

Countrified at AllMusic
Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.

Poet, J. Countrified, Allmusic.

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Studio albums	John Anderson John Anderson 2 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories Wild & Blue All the People Are Talkin' Eye of a Hurricane Tokyo, Oklahoma Countrified Blue Skies Again 10 Too Tough to Tame Seminole Wind Solid Ground Country 'til I Die Paradise Takin' the Country Back Nobody's Got It All Easy Money Bigger Hands Years
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1984) Greatest Hits Volume II Greatest Hits (1996)
Notable singles	"Your Lying Blue Eyes" "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs" "1959" "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" "Chicken Truck" "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" "Would You Catch a Falling Star" "Wild and Blue" "Swingin'" "Goin' Down Hill" "Black Sheep" "Let Somebody Else Drive" "She Sure Got Away with My Heart" "Eye of a Hurricane" "It's All Over Now" "Down in Tennessee" "Honky Tonk Crowd" "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings) "Straight Tequila Night" "When It Comes to You" "Seminole Wind" "Let Go of the Stone" "Money in the Bank" "I Fell in the Water" "I've Got It Made" "I Wish I Could Have Been There" "Bend It Until It Breaks" "Mississippi Moon" "Paradise" "Somebody Slap Me" "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" "Years" "Tuesday I'll Be Gone"
Related articles	Discography "Shuttin' Detroit Down"

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