Well, then this website is for you! Here's your chance to read all about Nashville pop, from the late-'50s "Nashville Sound" and the "countrypolitan" scene of the '70s to today's chart-toppers and pretty-boy hat acts, seen through the lens of DJ Joe Sixpack, a hick music know-it-all with a heart of gold...
The Amazing Rhythm Aces -- see artist discography
Bill Anderson -- see artist discography
John Anderson -- see artist discography
Keith Anderson "Three Chord Country And American Rock & Roll" (Arista, 2005)
(Produced by Jeffrey Steele & John Rich)
One of the lesser entries in the Big & Rich postmillennial "Muzik Mafia" ouvre. The B&R formula tends to wear thin easily to start with -- how many fake-rowdy, phony-sounding, would-be roughneck anthems with hook-laden, squeaky-clean, alt-metal rock riffs do we really need to hear, anyway? -- but Anderson's modest vocal talent only serves to underscore the poverty of the style. It's just too friggin' slick and cynically conceived for me, and the songs are so baldly prefab and desperate to lay claim to the Southern rock audience while still sounding as safe and antiseptic as an old REO Speedwagon album. To his credit, Anderson does manage to sound a little more organic and legitmately grounded in country tradition than Big & Rich do, but then, once you're willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt on the production end of things, you run up agains his so-so voice. He may have written a hit for Gretchen Wilson ("The Bed"), but he'll have to come up with something a little stronger than this to get me on board.
Keith Anderson "C'Mon!" (Sony, 2008)
Liz Anderson -- see artist discography
Lynn Anderson -- see artist discography
Jessica Andrews "Heart Shaped World" (Dreamworks, 1999)
(Produced by Byron Gallimore)
Jessica Andrews "Who I Am" (Dreamworks, 2000)
(Produced by Byron Gallimore)
Jessica Andrews "Now" (Dreamworks, 2003)
(Produced by Byron Gallimore, James Stroud & Billy Mann)
Sheila Andrews "Love Me Like A Woman" (Ovation, 1980) (LP)
Sheila Andrews "Love Sick" (Ovation, 1980) (LP)
Sheila Andrews "Crystal Tears" (Brylen, 1982) (LP)
Lisa Angelle "Lisa Angelle" (Dreamworks, 2000)
(Produced by Andrew Gold & Lisa Angelle)
Extremely pop-oriented material; Angelle's voice is the most interesting thing here, a husky, burnished rumble that reminds me of Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter. But the songs are dreadful, ranging from made-for-Oprah emotional handwringing tunes to dramatically flat, would-be "rowdy" material such as the "Daddy's Gun" and "Kiss This." The bouncy, uptempo single, "I Wear Your Love," is okay in a "Passionate Kisses" kinda way, but there's nothing else on the album that I found of equal interest.
Tony Arata "Changes" (MCA, 1986) (LP)
Tony Arata "Way Back When" (Little Tybee, 2005)
Tony Arata "Such Is Life" (Little Tybee, 2005)
Eddy Arnold -- see artist discography
Rick Arnold "The Real Duke Of Hazard" (Self-Released, 2010)
Later recordings from a fellow who had some (very) modest chart action 'way back in 1989... Kinda fun to hear him keeping the commercial sound of the time alive.
Commercial Country Albums - More Letter "A"
Hick Music Index
