Comments on: 100 Greatest Men: #59. John Anderson

By: Rachael Sarah Williams

Rachael Sarah Williams — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:45:09 +0000

Nearly 30 years later, I still cannot stand “Swingin’” (which I always thought was spelled “Swangin’” according to how Anderson sings it in the song). Like “Seminole Wind” and many of his other hits.

Anyone see him drop in on “Superfreak” during the Bruce Hornsby/Ricky Skaggs’ CMT special? :-P
(I caught Hornsby & Skaggs two years ago in Atlanta; what an incredible show!)

By: Susan K.

Susan K. — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:00:13 +0000

John Anderson has one of the more unique voices in country music. I think of Lorrie Morgan as his female equivalent. You know you are listening to one of their songs as soon as they open their mouths. I just love “Seminole Wind”, but I can’t stand “Swingin’”.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:22:11 +0000

Ben

Obviously Kevin believes the ranking order to be important (see his Top 100 Women articles), or he would just give his list alphabetically. By doing the list in countdown order he definitely opens the subject for debate and by accepting comments, invites the discussion

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:04:13 +0000

I’m pretty sure “K-13″ is the jukebox number.

By: Motown Mike

Motown Mike — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:26:56 +0000

I’ve always assumed he was just referencing the number on the jukebox and not an actual song.

By: Motown Mike

Motown Mike — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:23:45 +0000

There wasn’t ever actually a song called K-13 was there?

By: june

june — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:38:55 +0000

his song “Country till I Die” is so much better at celebrating being a country boy in a humorous way than anything anyone else has released to mainstream country in forever.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:06:08 +0000

ditto to Ben’s comment. Well said.

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:09:38 +0000

I’m sure there’s no one set of rankings that will please everyone, but I don’t really see any need to debate the ranking order extensively (I’m sure Kevin’s done his homework on this). I just think it’s great that each artist gets a generous spotlight, while the rest of us maybe learn a thing or two about country music that we didn’t know before, and find some great new music to check out at the same time. Plus I just have to say props to Kevin for taking on such a heavy project to begin with.

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:46:07 +0000

Really like Money In The Bank along with you essential singles.