John Williamson discography
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]
| John Williamson discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 20 |
| Live albums | 8 |
| Compilation albums | 25 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Soundtracks | 1 |
| Box sets | 1 |
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [2][3][4] | |||
| John Williamson |
|
— | |
| Comic Strip Cowboy |
|
— | |
| Road to Town |
|
— | |
| Fair Dinkum J.W. |
|
— | |
| Road Thru the Heart |
|
— | |
| Mallee Boy |
|
9 |
|
| Boomerang Café |
|
10 | |
| Warragul |
|
1 |
|
| JW's Family Album |
|
21 |
|
| Waratah St |
|
14 |
|
| Mulga to Mangoes |
|
14 |
|
| Family Album No.2 |
|
100[4] | |
| Pipe Dream |
|
6 |
|
| The Way It Is |
|
10 |
|
| Gunyah |
|
20 |
|
| Chandelier of Stars |
|
11 |
|
| Hillbilly Road |
|
6 |
|
| The Big Red |
|
15 | |
| Honest People |
|
11 | |
| Butcherbird |
|
13 |
Live albums
| Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [2][3][4] | |||
| Travlin' Out West in Concert (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy) |
|
— | |
| From Travlin' Out West (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy) |
|
— | |
| Singing in the Suburbs |
|
— | |
| The Smell of Gum Leaves |
|
49 | |
| John Williamson for Aussie Kids |
|
— | |
| Boogie with M'Baby |
|
— | |
| Mates on the Road (with Pixie Jenkins, Warren H. Williams) |
|
98 [14] | |
| John Williamson in Symphony (with he Sydney Symphony) |
|
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Notes
- John Williamson in Symphony did not enter the ARIA Albums Chart, but peaked at number two on the ARIA Music DVD Chart.[15]
Soundtrack albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Quambatook |
|
Compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [2][3][4] | |||
| Radio Special |
|
— | |
| Country Greats |
|
— | |
| True Blue – The Best of John Williamson |
|
— | |
| Humble Beginnings |
|
— | |
| All the Best! |
|
27 | |
| Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 |
|
32 |
|
| Love Is a Good Woman |
|
— | |
| True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson |
|
21 |
|
| Country Classics |
|
— | |
| The Spirit of Australia |
|
— | |
| Wandering Australia |
|
— | |
| The Glory of Australia |
|
— | |
| Laugh Along with John Williamson |
|
— | |
| Australia |
|
— | |
| Anthems – A Celebration of Australia |
|
16 |
|
| True Blue Two |
|
8 |
|
| From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs |
|
— | |
| We Love this Country |
|
— | |
| Country Classics 2 |
|
— | |
| The Platinum Collection |
|
25 |
|
| Wildlife Warriors |
|
78 | |
| Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
|
23 |
|
| Hell of a Career |
|
24 | |
| His Favourite Collection |
|
9 | |
| JW Bangers |
|
— | |
Box sets
| Title | Album details | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [24] | ||
| JW Winding Back 1970-2020 |
|
50 |
Chronological list of all albums
- John Williamson (1970)
- Travlin' Out West in Concert (1973)
- From Travlin' Out West (1974)
- Comic Strip Cowboy (1976)
- Road to Town (1978)
- Radio Special (1978)
- Country Greats (1978)
- Fair Dinkum J.W. (1982)
- True Blue – The Best of John Williamson (1982)
- Singing in the Suburbs (1983)
- The Smell of Gum Leaves (1984)
- Humble Beginnings (1985)
- Road Thru the Heart (1985)
- All the Best! (1986)
- Mallee Boy (1986)
- Boomerang Café (1988)
- Warragul (1989)
- JW's Family Album (1990)
- Waratah St (1991)
- Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 (1992)
- Love Is a Good Woman (1993)
- Mulga to Mangoes (1994)
- True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson (1995)
- Family Album No.2 (1996)
- Pipe Dream (1997)
- Country Classics (1997)
- The Spirit of Australia (1998)
- Wandering Australia (1998)
- John Williamson for Aussie Kids (1998)
- Boogie with M'Baby (1998)
- The Glory of Australia (1999)
- Laugh Along with John Williamson (1999)
- The Way It Is (1999)
- Australia (1999)
- Anthems – A Celebration of Australia (August 2000)
- Gunyah (2002)
- True Blue Two (2003)
- Mates on the Road (2004)
- From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs (2005)
- Chandelier of Stars (2005)
- We Love this Country (2005)
- Country Classics 2 (2006)
- The Platinum Collection (2006)
- Wildlife Warriors (2006)
- Hillbilly Road (2008)
- Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue (2010)
- John Williamson in Symphony (2011)
- The Big Red (2012)
- Hell of a Career (2013)
- Honest People (2014)
- His Favourite Collection (2016)
- Butcherbird (2018)
- JW Winding Back 1970-2020 (2020)
- JW Bangers (2022)
Extended plays
| Title | EP details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [2][3] | |||
| Old Man Emu |
|
— | |
| Diggers of the Anzac |
|
100 [25] |
|
| Looking for a Story |
|
32 |
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [3][4][26] | ||||
| "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 | |||
| "Australia Calling" | 1992 | — | Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 | |
| "I'll Be Gone" | — | |||
| "Seven Year Itch" | 1994 | — | Mulga to Mangoes | |
| "River Crying Out" | — | |||
| "Tropical Fever" | — | |||
| "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 | |
| "Cape York Peninsula" | 2002 | — | Gunyah | |
| "Salisbury Street" | — | |||
| "Sing You in the Outback"/"Butter Outta Grass" | — | |||
| "Buried in Her Bedclothes"/"Around Jindabyne" | — | |||
| "Raining on the Plains" (with Sara Storer) | — | Beautiful Circle (Sara Storer album) | ||
| "The Easter Billby" | 2003 | — | True Blue Two | |
| "True Blue" (21st Anniversary) | — | |||
| "Keep Australia Beautiful"[27] | — | |||
| "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 | |
| "Drink a Little Love"[28] | 2008 | — | Hillbilly Road | |
| "Cydi"[28] | — | |||
| "Hillbilly Road"[28] | — | |||
| "Australia Is Another Word for Free"(with Warren H. Williams)[28] | 2009 | — | ||
| "Better Than a Picture"[28] | — | |||
| "King of the Road"(with Adam Harvey) | — | Both Sides Now | ||
| "Island of Oceans"(with Shannon Noll) [29] | 2010 | — | Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue | |
| "Hang My Hat in Queensland"[30] | 2011 | — | The Big Red | |
| "The Big Red" | 2012 | — | ||
| "Prairie Hotel Parachilna"[31] | 2013 | — | ||
| "Grandpa's Cricket"[32] | 2014 | — | Honest People | |
| "Honest People"[33] | — | |||
| "Clouds Over Tamworth" | — | |||
| "Looking for a Story" | 2016 | — | Looking for a Story | |
| "Aussie Girls!" | — | His Favourite Collection | ||
| "Pigs on the River"[34] | 2017 | — | Butcherbird | |
| "Love Is the Word"[35] | — | non-album single | ||
| "The Valley of His Dreams" | 2018 | — | Butcherbird | |
| "Flowers of Jacaranda"[36] | 2019 | — | ||
| "Three Sons"(with Aleyce Simmonds)[37] | — | |||
| "Those Fifty Years"[38] | 2020 | — | JW Winding Back 1970-2020 | |
| "The Great Divide"[39] | — | |||
| "Come Back To Me, Country"[40] | 2021 | — | ||
| "It's Raining Again"[41] | 2022 | — | ||
| "Waiting for the Sun" (with Ami Williamson)[42] | — | |||
| "The Voice of the Sea"[43] | — | |||
| "Voice from the Heart"[44] | 2023 | — | non album singles | |
| "Uluru Forever"[44] | — | |||
Video albums
| Title | Details | Certification |
|---|---|---|
| John Williamson Live |
|
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| Welcome to the Campfire |
|
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| Waratah Street Live |
|
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| Australia Calling |
|
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| Mulga to Mangoes – Live At The Woolshed |
|
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| True Blue - The Videos |
|
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| For Aussie Kids |
|
|
| The Way It Is |
|
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| The Way It Is |
|
|
| Anthems: A Celebration of Australia |
|
|
| Gunyah – I'll Sing You the Outback |
|
|
| True Blue Two - The VHS Collection |
|
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| Mates On the Road |
|
|
| Chandelier of Stars |
|
|
| Hillbilly Road |
|
|
| Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
|
|
| John Williamson in Symphony |
|
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| Songs from the Outback |
|
|
Music videos
| 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" |
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- "Hang My Hat in Queensland - single". Apple Music. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- "Prairie Hotel Parachilna - single". Apple Music. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- "Grandpa's Cricket –Single". Apple Music. 3 January 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- "Honest People – Single". Apple Music. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
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- "Love Is the Word - Single". Apple Music. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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