Countrified (John Anderson album)

Countrified
Studio album by John Anderson
Released	October 6, 1986
Studio	Digital Recorders, The Loft, The Music Mill, and Sound Stage, Nashville, TN
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]

Countrified is the eighth studio album by American 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."

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

References

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