Solid Ground (John Anderson album)

Solid Ground

Studio album by

John Anderson

Released

June 22, 1993

Recorded

1992-1993

Studio

Mesa Recording Studios, and Sound Stage Studios Nashville, TN

Genre

Country

Length

31:19

Label

BNA

Producer

James Stroud, John Anderson

John Anderson chronology

Seminole Wind
(1992)

Solid Ground
(1993)

You Can't Keep A Good Memory Down
(1994)

Singles from Solid Ground

"Money in the Bank"
Released: April 16, 1993
"I Fell in the Water"
Released: August 28, 1993
"I've Got It Made"
Released: November 29, 1993
"I Wish I Could Have Been There"
Released: April 18, 1994

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Solid Ground is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in 1993 under BNA Records. The album includes the singles "Money in the Bank" (his final Number One hit), I've Got It Made", "I Fell in the Water", and "I Wish I Could Have Been There". Also included is "Bad Love Gone Good", which was written by Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson, and Henry Paul, who comprised the band BlackHawk at the time. They later recorded this song on their 1995 album Strong Enough.

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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Money in the Bank"	Mark D. Sanders, Bob DiPiero, John Jarrard	2:58
2.	"I've Got It Made"	Max D. Barnes	2:52
3.	"I Fell in the Water"	Jerry Salley, Jeff Stevens	2:40
4.	"Bad Love Gone Good"	Dave Robbins, Van Stephenson, Henry Paul	3:55
5.	"All Things to All Things"	John Anderson, Fred Carter Jr.	2:53
6.	"Where I Come From"	Kent Robbins	2:41
7.	"I Wish I Could Have Been There"	Anderson, Robbins	3:34
8.	"Nashville Tears"	Bobby Braddock	3:07^A
9.	"Can't Get Away from You"	Anderson, Lionel Delmore	3:25
10.	"Solid Ground"	Anderson, Delmore	3:16

^ATrack omitted from cassette version.

Personnel

John Anderson - lead vocals, background vocals, electric guitar (track 9)
Eddie Bayers - drums
Barry Beckett - Hammond B-3 organ
Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar
Buddy Emmons - steel guitar
Sonny Garrish - steel guitar, Dobro
Dann Huff - electric guitar
Gary Prim - piano
Matt Rollings - piano
Gary Smith - keyboards
Joe Spivey - fiddle, mandolin, banjo
James Stroud - drums (track 9)
Glenn Worf - bass guitar
Curtis Wright - background vocals
Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young - background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	12
U.S. Billboard 200	75
Canadian RPM Country Albums	13

References

^ Buss, Bryan. Solid Ground at AllMusic

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Studio albums	John Anderson John Anderson 2 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories Wild & Blue All the People Are Talkin' Eye of a Hurricane Tokyo, Oklahoma Countrified Blue Skies Again 10 Too Tough to Tame Seminole Wind Solid Ground Country 'til I Die Paradise Takin' the Country Back Nobody's Got It All Easy Money Bigger Hands Goldmine Years
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1984) Greatest Hits Volume II Greatest Hits (1996)
Notable singles	"Your Lying Blue Eyes" "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs" "1959" "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" "Chicken Truck" "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" "Would You Catch a Falling Star" "Wild and Blue" "Swingin'" "Goin' Down Hill" "Black Sheep" "Let Somebody Else Drive" "She Sure Got Away with My Heart" "Eye of a Hurricane" "It's All Over Now" "Down in Tennessee" "Honky Tonk Crowd" "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings) "Straight Tequila Night" "When It Comes to You" "Seminole Wind" "Let Go of the Stone" "Money in the Bank" "I Fell in the Water" "I've Got It Made" "I Wish I Could Have Been There" "Bend It Until It Breaks" "Mississippi Moon" "Paradise" "Somebody Slap Me" "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" "Years" "Tuesday I'll Be Gone"
Related articles	Discography "Shuttin' Detroit Down"

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