John Williamson discography

John Williamson discography
Studio albums20
EPs3
Live albums8
Compilation albums25
Soundtracks1
Box sets1

The discography of John Williamson, an Australian singer-songwriter, consists of twenty studio albums, twenty-five compilation album, eight live album, three EPs. Williamson has sold over 4 million records in Australia.[1]

Albums

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Studio albums

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Title Album details Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[2][3][4]
John Williamson
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Fable (FBSA-001)
 —
Comic Strip Cowboy
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Mercury (6357 037)
 —
Road to Town
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Mercury (6357 057)
 —
Fair Dinkum J.W.
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Festival (L37940)
  • Re-released as Bound for Botany Bay in 1996
 142
Road Thru the Heart
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Festival (L38498)
 —
Mallee Boy
  • Released: November 1986
  • Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53221)
 9
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum[5]
Boomerang Café
  • Released: April 1988
  • Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53260)
 10
Warragul
  • Released: September 1989
  • Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53308)
 1
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[6]
JW's Family Album
  • Released: October 1990
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI Music (8140232)
 21
  • ARIA: Platinum[4]
Waratah St
  • Released: September 1991
  • Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53347)
 14
  • ARIA: Platinum[4]
Mulga to Mangoes
  • Released: August 1994
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI (8301732)
 14
Family Album No.2
  • Released: September 1996
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI
 100[4]
Pipe Dream
  • Released: August 1997
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI (8590492)
 6
  • ARIA: Platinum[7]
The Way It Is
  • Released: July 1999
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI (5215152)
 10
  • ARIA: Platinum[8]
Gunyah
  • Released: 22 April 2002[9]
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI (5391724)
 20
Chandelier of Stars
  • Released: August 2005
  • Label: Gumleaf / EMI (094633367128)
 11
Hillbilly Road 6
The Big Red
  • Released: 27 January 2012
  • Label: Warner (5310507502)
 15
Honest People
  • Released: 25 July 2014
  • Label: Warner (5419624992)
 11
Butcherbird
  • Released: 24 August 2018
  • Label: Warner (5419702417)
 13

Live albums

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Title Album details Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[2][3][4][13]
Travlin' Out West in Concert (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy) —
From Travlin' Out West (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy)
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Reg Grundy Productions (TOW 1002)
 —
Singing in the Suburbs
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Festival (L38100)
  • Re-released as John Williamson Live in 1996 and Waltzing Matilda Live in 2000.
 —
The Smell of Gum Leaves
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: Festival (L38245)
  • Re-released as Home Among the Gumtrees in 1997
 49
John Williamson for Aussie Kids
  • Released: November 1998
  • Label: EMI
 151
Boogie with M'Baby
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: EMI
  • Re-released as Old Farts in Caravan Parks in 2003.
 —
Mates on the Road (with Pixie Jenkins, Warren H. Williams)
  • Released: 23 February 2004[14]
  • Label: EMI (5981832)
 98 [15]
John Williamson in Symphony (with he Sydney Symphony)
  • Released: January 2011
  • Format: CD / DVD
  • Label: EMI (0944772)
 —[A]

Notes

  1. ^ John Williamson in Symphony did not enter the ARIA Albums Chart, but peaked at number two on the ARIA Music DVD Chart.[16]

Soundtrack albums

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Title Album details
Quambatook
  • Released: February 2008
  • Label:

Compilation albums

[edit]
Title Album details Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[2][3][4][13]
Radio Special
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Mercury (JW-001)
 —
Country Greats
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Mercury (9199635)
 —
True Blue – The Best of John Williamson
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Festival (L37788)
  • Re-released as Old Man Emu in 1997
 —
Humble Beginnings
  • Released: 1985
  • 2×LP
  • Label: Festival (L45945)
 133
All the Best!
  • Released: July 1986
  • Label: Festival (RMC 53190)
 27
Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2
  • Released: October 1992
  • Label: EMI Music (7806442)
 32
  • ARIA: Platinum[5]
Love Is a Good Woman
  • Released: November 1993
  • Label: EMI Music (8279112)
 123
True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson
  • Released: November 1995
  • 2x CD
  • Label: EMI Music (8146312)
 21
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum[18]
Country Classics —
The Spirit of Australia
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Steve Parish/ EMI (9314954005143)
 —
Wandering Australia
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Steve Parish/ EMI (9314954005181)
 —
The Glory of Australia
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Steve Parish/ EMI (9319775912021)
 —
Laugh Along with John Williamson
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Steve Parish/ EMI (9319775912229)
 —
Australia
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Reader's Digest (0350782)
 —
Anthems – A Celebration of Australia
  • Released: August 2000
  • Label: Gumleaf/ EMI (724352768127)
 16
True Blue Two
  • Released: August 2003
  • Label: Gumleaf/ EMI (724359238326)
 8
From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Gumleaf
 —
We Love this Country
  • Released: 31 October 2005[21]
  • Label: Gumleaf, EMI (3119932)
 —
Country Classics 2
  • Released: 2006
  • Format: 2×CD
  • Label: Reader's Digest (0351275)
 —
The Platinum Collection
  • Released: 26 August 2006
  • Format: 3×CD
  • Label: Gumleaf (3736262)
 25
Wildlife Warriors
  • Released: 25 November 2006
  • Label: EMI Music (3826912)
 78
Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue
  • Released: March 2010
  • Format: 2×CD
  • Label: EMI (6274852)
 23
Hell of a Career 24
His Favourite Collection
  • Released: 19 August 2016
  • Format: 4×CD
  • Label: Warner (5419724752)
 9
JW Bangers
  • Released: November 2022[24]
  • Format: LP (limited edition)
  • Label: Warner Music Australia (5419714826)
 —

Box sets

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Title Album details Chart positions
AUS
[25]
JW Winding Back 1970-2020
  • Released: 19 June 2020
  • Format: 25×CD singles
  • Label: Warner
 50

Chronological list of all albums

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  1. John Williamson (1970)
  2. Travlin' Out West in Concert (1973)
  3. From Travlin' Out West (1974)
  4. Comic Strip Cowboy (1976)
  5. Road to Town (1978)
  6. Radio Special (1978)
  7. Country Greats (1978)
  8. Fair Dinkum J.W. (1982)
  9. True Blue – The Best of John Williamson (1982)
  10. Singing in the Suburbs (1983)
  11. The Smell of Gum Leaves (1984)
  12. Humble Beginnings (1985)
  13. Road Thru the Heart (1985)
  14. All the Best! (1986)
  15. Mallee Boy (1986)
  16. Boomerang Café (1988)
  17. Warragul (1989)
  18. JW's Family Album (1990)
  19. Waratah St (1991)
  20. Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 (1992)
  21. Love Is a Good Woman (1993)
  22. Mulga to Mangoes (1994)
  23. True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson (1995)
  24. Family Album No.2 (1996)
  25. Pipe Dream (1997)
  26. Country Classics (1997)
  27. The Spirit of Australia (1998)
  28. Wandering Australia (1998)
  29. John Williamson for Aussie Kids (1998)
  30. Boogie with M'Baby (1998)
  31. The Glory of Australia (1999)
  32. Laugh Along with John Williamson (1999)
  33. The Way It Is (1999)
  34. Australia (1999)
  35. Anthems – A Celebration of Australia (August 2000)
  36. Gunyah (2002)
  37. True Blue Two (2003)
  38. Mates on the Road (2004)
  39. From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs (2005)
  40. Chandelier of Stars (2005)
  41. We Love this Country (2005)
  42. Country Classics 2 (2006)
  43. The Platinum Collection (2006)
  44. Wildlife Warriors (2006)
  45. Hillbilly Road (2008)
  46. Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue (2010)
  47. John Williamson in Symphony (2011)
  48. The Big Red (2012)
  49. Hell of a Career (2013)
  50. Honest People (2014)
  51. His Favourite Collection (2016)
  52. Butcherbird (2018)
  53. JW Winding Back 1970-2020 (2020)
  54. JW Bangers (2022)

Extended plays

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Title EP details Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[2][3]
Old Man Emu
  • Released: January 1973
  • Label: Fable (FBEP-160)
 —
Diggers of the Anzac
  • Released: 6 April 2015
  • Label: Tailfeather Music/ Warner
 100
[26]
Looking for a Story
  • Released: 22 April 2016
  • Label: Tailfeather Music/ Warner
 32

Singles

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List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUS
[3][4][27]
"Old Man Emu"/"Old Gum Tree" 1970 4 John Williamson
"The Unexplored Shadows of Mine"/"Under the Bridge" —
"Beautiful Sydney"/"Melbourne Blue, Melbourne Green" 1971 —
"Misery Farm"/"Seaside Girls" 1972 — Old Man Emu (EP)
"Big Country Round"/"Shades of Grey" —
"W-w-wallaby"/"The Morning After" 1974 — John Williamson
"Alfred Koala Bear" — non-album single
"Comic Strip Cowboy" 1975 — Comic Strip Cowboy
"It's a Grab It While It's Goin' Kind of Life" 1977 — Country Greats
"Come Ride a Country Road" 1978 —
"Tearjerkers" —
"Lonesome Playground" — Radio Special
"Murrumbidgee Madness" 1979 — Road to Town
"The Breaker" (with Charles 'Bud' Tingwell) 1981 100 True Blue – The Best of John Williamson
"Diggers of the ANZAC (This Is Gallipoli)" —
"True Blue" 1982 —
"(You Gotta Be) Fair Dinkum" (with Karen Johns) — Fair Dinkum J.W.
"The Buddies Song (Have a Go)" 1983 — Buddies soundtrack
"The Vasectomy Song" 28 Singing in the Suburbs
"Lillee and McEnroe" 1984 —
"I'm Fair Dinkum" 59 The Smell of Gum Leaves
"Dad's Flowers" —
"Go to Nashville" 1985 — Road Thru the Heart
"You and My Guitar" —
"Goodbye Blinky Bill" 1986 — All the Best
"True Blue" (re-release) 43 Mallee Boy
"Raining on the Rock" 1987 —
"Cootamundra Wattle" —
"Crocodile Roll" 1988 — Boomerang Café
"The Boomerang Café" —
"The March for Australia (A New Beginning)" —
"Station Cook" 1989 — Warragul
"Rip Rip Woodchip" 39
"Boogie with M'Baby" 42
"Special Girl" —
"Old Man Emu" (re-release) 1990 155 JW's Family Album
"Christmas Photo" 113
"A Flag of Our Own" 1991 119 Waratah Street
"Waratah Street" 142
"(This Is) Australia Calling" 1992 123 Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2
"I'll Be Gone" 131
"Good Woman" 1993 123 Good Woman
"Seven Year Itch" 1994 181 Mulga to Mangoes
"River Crying Out" 159
"Tropical Fever" 160
"No One Loves Brisbane Like Jesus" 1995 161 True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson
"Sir Don" 1996 72 Pipe Dream
"Bush Telegraph" 1997 —
"The Golden Kangaroo" — Family Album Number 2
"Raining on the Rock" (with Warren H Williams) 1998 — Country Friends (Warren H Williams album)
"A Thousand Feet" (with Warren H Williams) 1999 — The Way It Is
"Purple Roses" —
"Number on My Back / The Baggy Green"(with Steve Waugh) 95
"This Ancient Land"(with Jimmy Little) 2000 — Anthems – A Celebration of Australia
"Waltzing Matilda" 165
"Sing You in the Outback" 2002 176 Gunyah
"Buried in Her Bedclothes" —
"Raining on the Plains" (with Sara Storer) — Beautiful Circle (Sara Storer album)
"Keep Australia Beautiful"[28] 2003 — True Blue Two
"True Blue" (21st Anniversary) 103
"A Chandelier of Stars" 2005 — A Chandelier of Stars
"A Country Balladeer" —
"Flower on the Water" —
"We Love This Country" — We Love This Country
"Wildlife Warriors: It's Time" 2006 — Wildlife Warriors
"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (live) 2008 146 The Platinum Collection
"Drink a Little Love"[29] — Hillbilly Road
"Cydi"[29] —
"Hillbilly Road"[29] —
"Australia Is Another Word for Free"(with Warren H. Williams)[29] 2009 —
"Better Than a Picture"[29] —
"King of the Road"(with Adam Harvey) — Both Sides Now
"Island of Oceans"(with Shannon Noll) [30] 2010 — Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue
"Hang My Hat in Queensland"[31] 2011 — The Big Red
"The Big Red" 2012 —
"Prairie Hotel Parachilna"[32] 2013 —
"Grandpa's Cricket"[33] 2014 — Honest People
"Honest People"[34] —
"Clouds Over Tamworth" —
"Looking for a Story" 2016 — Looking for a Story
"Aussie Girls!" — His Favourite Collection
"Pigs on the River"[35] 2017 — Butcherbird
"Love Is the Word"[36] — non-album single
"The Valley of His Dreams" 2018 — Butcherbird
"Flowers of Jacaranda"[37] 2019 —
"Three Sons"(with Aleyce Simmonds)[38] —
"Those Fifty Years"[39] 2020 — JW Winding Back 1970-2020
"The Great Divide"[40] —
"Come Back To Me, Country"[41] 2021 —
"It's Raining Again"[42] 2022 —
"Waiting for the Sun" (with Ami Williamson)[43] —
"The Voice of the Sea"[44] —
"Voice from the Heart"[45] 2023 — non album singles
"Uluru Forever"[45] —

Video albums

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Title Details Certification
John Williamson Live
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Festival Records
Welcome to the Campfire
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Festival Records
Waratah Street Live
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Festival Records
Australia Calling
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Gum Leaf Recordings
Mulga to Mangoes – Live At The Woolshed
  • Released: 1994
  • Label:
True Blue - The Videos
  • Released: 1995
  • Label:
For Aussie Kids
  • Released: 1998
  • Label:
The Way It Is
  • Released: 1999
  • Label:
The Way It Is
  • Released: 1999
  • Label:
Anthems: A Celebration of Australia
  • Released: 2000
  • Label:
Gunyah – I'll Sing You the Outback
  • Released: 2002
  • Label:
True Blue Two - The VHS Collection
  • Released: 2003
  • Label:
Mates On the Road
  • Released: 2004
  • Label:
Chandelier of Stars
  • Released: 2006
  • Label:
Hillbilly Road
  • Released: 2009
  • Label:
Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue
  • Released: 2010
  • Label:
John Williamson in Symphony
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Warner
Songs from the Outback
  • Released: 2016
  • Label:

Music videos

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Year Video
1989 "Rip Rip Woodchip"
"Boogie with M'Baby"
1992 "I'll Be Gone"
"Australia Calling"
1994 "River Crying Out"
"Tropical Fever"
1998 "Raining On The Rock"
1999 "A Thousand Feet"
2003 "True Blue"
2005 "Chandelier Of Stars"
"Little Girl From The Dryland"
2009 "Australia Is Another Word For Free"
"Better Than A Picture"
"King Of The Road"
2011 "Hang My Hat In Queensland"
2012 "The Big Red"
2013 "Prairie Hotel Parachilna"
2014 "Honest People"

References

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