Anything Goes (Randy Houser album)

Anything Goes
Studio album by Randy Houser
Released	November 18, 2008
Studio	Sound Kitchen and House of Nadia (Franklin, Tennessee) East Iris Studios, Starstruck Studios and Little Big Studio (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	41:20
Label	Universal South
Producer	Mark Wright Cliff Audretch III
Randy Houser chronology
Anything Goes (2008) They Call Me Cadillac (2010)
Singles from Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" Released: June 2, 2008 "Boots On" Released: February 23, 2009

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Engine 145	[2]

Anything Goes is the debut studio album by American country music singer Randy Houser. It was released on November 18, 2008 via Universal South Records. The album's lead-off single, its title track, reached number 16 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The second single, "Boots On", peaked at number 2. Houser co-wrote all but three of the songs on the album.

"Back to God" was later recorded by Reba McEntire for her 2017 album Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope , from which it was released as the second single.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Boots On"	Randy Houser, Brandon Kinney	2:51
2.	"Anything Goes"	Brice Long, John Wayne Wiggins	3:04
3.	"Wild Wild West"	Angelo Petraglia, Daryl Burgess, Houser	3:31
4.	"Back to God"	Dallas Davidson, Houser	5:14
5.	"Something Real"	David Lee Murphy, Houser	4:22
6.	"My Kind of Country"	Davidson, Houser	2:55
7.	"Strange"	Chuck Jones, Chuck Cannon	3:13
8.	"Lie"	Reed Nielsen, Shane Minor, Houser	4:11
9.	"Paycheck Man"	Derek George, Danny Myrick, Houser	3:04
10.	"How Many Times"	Jon Randall, Al Anderson	4:07
11.	"I'll Sleep"	Minor, Myrick, Houser	4:48

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. ^[3]

• Randy Houser – lead vocals, acoustic guitar (6, 8, 9)
• Steve Nathan – Hammond B3 organ (1, 3-5, 9), acoustic piano (2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11)
• Kevin McKendree – Wurlitzer electric piano (6, 7), Hammond B3 organ (6, 7)
• J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar, baritone guitar (5)
• B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar (1-5), gut-string guitar (5)
• Rob McNelley – electric guitar (1-7)
• Bruce Wallace – acoustic guitar (6, 7)
• Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar (8-11)
• John Willis – acoustic guitar (8-11)
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar (11)
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar (1-5, 8-11), dobro (11)
• Michael Rhodes – bass (1-5, 8-11)
• Steve Mackey – bass (6, 7)
• Lonnie Wilson – drums (1-5, 8-11)
• Nick Buda – drums (6, 7)
• Eric Darken – percussion (1-6, 8, 9, 11)
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle (11)
• David Angell – strings (4, 5)
• John Catchings – strings (4, 5)
• David Davidson – strings (4, 5)
• Kristin Wilkinson – strings (4, 5), string arrangements (4, 5)
• Stephen Lamb – copyist (4, 5)
• Wes Hightower – backing vocals (1-5, 7-9, 11)
• Kim Fleming – backing vocals (2, 4)
• Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (2, 4)
• Aaron Mason – backing vocals (2, 4)
• Cliff Audretch III – backing vocals (3)
• Vince Gill – backing vocals (10)

Production

• Cliff Audretch III – A&R, producer
• Mark Wright – producer
• Greg Droman – recording, mixing
• Adam Hull – recording assistant
• Greg Lawrence – recording assistant
• Leslie Richter – recording assistant
• Heather Strum – recording assistant
• Chris Ashburn – additional recording assistant
• Kim Daewoo – additional recording assistant
• Aaron Kasdorf – additional recording assistant
• Todd Tidwell – additional recording assistant
• Hank Williams – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Carie Higdon – production coordinator
• Natalie S. Moore – art direction, additional photography
• Susannah Parrish – art direction, design
• Kristin Barlowe – photography
• Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2008) Peak position US Billboard 200 [4] 101 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [5] 21 US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [6] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2009) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [7] 47

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Anything Goes review". Allmusic . Retrieved January 15, 2010.
2. Vercher, Brady (November 20, 2008). "Anything Goes review". Engine 145. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
3. Anything Goes (CD booklet). Randy Houser. Universal Records South. 2008. B0011699-02.
4. "Randy Houser Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
5. "Randy Houser Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
6. "Randy Houser Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
7. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved December 19, 2020.