Wild & Blue

Wild & Blue
Studio album by John Anderson
Released	September 15, 1982
Studio	Columbia Reocrding Studios, Nashville Sound Connection, and Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN
Genre	Country
Length	30:15
Label	Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer	John Anderson Frank Jones
John Anderson chronology
I Just Came Home to Count the Memories (1981) Wild & Blue (1982) All the People Are Talkin' (1983)
Singles from Wild & Blue
"Wild and Blue" Released: September 1982 "Swingin'" Released: January 10, 1983 "Goin' Down Hill" Released: June 25, 1983

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+ [2]

Wild & Blue is the fourth studio album by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in September 1982 under Warner Bros. Records. It includes the Number One country hits "Swingin'" and "Wild and Blue".

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wild and Blue"	John Scott Sherrill	2:53
2.	"The Waltz You Saved for Me" (duet with Emmylou Harris)	Emil Flindt, Gus Kahn, Wayne King	2:45
3.	"Honky Tonk Hearts"	Bob McDill	3:13
4.	"Long Black Veil"	Danny Dill, Marijohn Wilkin	3:18
5.	"She Never Looked That Good When She Was Mine"	Johnny MacRae, Bob Morrison	2:34
6.	"Disappearing Farmer"	James Cowan, Sandy Pinkard	3:03
7.	"Honky Tonk Saturday Night"	Sanger D. Shafer	2:53
8.	"Goin' Down Hill"	John Anderson, X Lincoln (aka Billy Lee Tubb)	3:37
9.	"The Price of a Thin Silver Dime"	Ronal McCown	3:43
10.	"Swingin'"	Anderson, Lionel Delmore	3:04
11.	"If a Broken Heart Could Kill"	Allen Henson, Wayland Holyfield, Norro Wilson	3:03

Personnel

• John Anderson - lead vocals
• Steve Gibson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Fred Carter Jr. - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Beckie Foster - background vocals
• Joy Gardner - background vocals
• Dennis Good - trombone
• Lloyd Green - dobro, steel guitar
• Merle Haggard - vocals on "Long Black Veil"
• Emmylou Harris - vocals on "The Waltz You Saved for Me"
• Allen Henson - background vocals
• Mike Jordon - organ
• Larrie Londin - drums
• Cam Mullins - string arrangements
• The Nashville String Machine - strings
• Billy Puett - tenor saxophone
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano
• Don Sheffield - trumpet
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Henry Strzelecki - bass guitar
• Pete Wade - electric guitar
• Bobby Thompson - banjo

Chart performance

Chart (1982)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	3
U.S. Billboard 200 [3]	58

References

1. Roland, Tom. Wild & Blue 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.
3. "John Anderson". Billboard. Retrieved 21 July 2023.