John Anderson Working Overtime On New Album

Country legend John Anderson created quite a stir on Lower Broadway in Nashville Tuesday night after a recording session with producer James Stroud. Anderson is at work on his upcoming album for Country Crossing Records with Stroud and engineer Julian King.

When the evening session wrapped, John Rich (who dropped in to celebrate the chart success of his new single “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” with his co-writer, John Anderson), then recommended the group pay a visit to Anderson’s old honky-tonk haunts. And in a flash, John Rich was introducing his “honky-tonk hero” to an elated audience at the Full Moon Saloon, now housed on the property where a teenage John Anderson started his storied career at a venue called The Wheel (now located next door to the Full Moon Saloon).

Anderson laid right into “Swingin’” with the exhilarated house band and fiddle player of twenty-three years, Joe Spivey at his side. Anderson reflected as he left the stage, “this is quite a heavy thing to be back here after all these years.”

Next, Rich and Anderson headed across the street to Legends, with James Stroud, Julian King, and Anderson’s manager, publisher and agent Bobby Roberts and publicist Jim Della Croce in tow. There, he and Spivey wowed an unexpected honky-tonk crowd with his multi-platinum smash hit, the Stroud-produced, “Seminole Wind.” Afterwards they slipped back to Rich’s private club, The Spot, where he bid Rich and his manager Marc Oswald a good night. “This was truly a good night boys, one for the books,” he said laughingly as he slipped off into the night.