John Williamson discography | |
---|---|
Studio albums | 20 |
Live albums | 8 |
Compilation albums | 25 |
EPs | 3 |
Soundtracks | 1 |
Box sets | 1 |
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]
Title | Album details | Chart positions |
Certifications ( sales thresholds) |
---|---|---|---|
AUS [2] [3] [4] | |||
John Williamson |
|
— | |
Comic Strip Cowboy |
|
— | |
Road to Town |
|
— | |
Fair Dinkum J.W. |
|
142 | |
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 |
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) |
|
— | |
Singing in the Suburbs |
|
— | |
The Smell of Gum Leaves |
|
49 | |
John Williamson for Aussie Kids |
|
151 | |
Boogie with M'Baby |
|
— | |
Mates on the Road (with Pixie Jenkins, Warren H. Williams) |
|
98 [15] | |
John Williamson in Symphony (with he Sydney Symphony) |
|
— [A] |
|
Notes
Title | Album details |
---|---|
Quambatook |
|
Title | Album details | Chart positions |
Certifications ( sales thresholds) |
---|---|---|---|
AUS [2] [3] [4] [13] | |||
Radio Special |
|
— | |
Country Greats |
|
— | |
True Blue – The Best of John Williamson |
|
— | |
Humble Beginnings |
|
133 | |
All the Best! |
|
27 | |
Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 |
|
32 |
|
Love Is a Good Woman |
|
123 | |
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 |
|
— |
Title | Album details | Chart positions |
---|---|---|
AUS [25] | ||
JW Winding Back 1970-2020 |
|
50 |
Title | EP details | Chart positions |
Certifications ( sales thresholds) |
---|---|---|---|
AUS [2] [3] | |||
Old Man Emu |
|
— | |
Diggers of the Anzac |
|
100 [26] |
|
Looking for a Story |
|
32 |
This list of songs or music-related items is
incomplete; you can help by
adding missing items. (October 2021) |
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] | — |
Title | Details | Certification |
---|---|---|
John Williamson Live |
|
|
Welcome to the Campfire |
|
|
Waratah Street Live |
|
|
Australia Calling |
|
|
Mulga to Mangoes – Live At The Woolshed |
|
|
True Blue - The Videos |
|
|
For Aussie Kids |
|
|
The Way It Is |
|
|
The Way It Is |
|
|
Anthems: A Celebration of Australia |
|
|
Gunyah – I'll Sing You the Outback |
|
|
True Blue Two - The VHS Collection |
|
|
Mates On the Road |
|
|
Chandelier of Stars |
|
|
Hillbilly Road |
|
|
Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
|
|
John Williamson in Symphony |
|
|
Songs from the Outback |
|
This list of songs or music-related items is
incomplete; you can help by
adding missing items. (October 2021) |
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" |
John Williamson discography | |
---|---|
Studio albums | 20 |
Live albums | 8 |
Compilation albums | 25 |
EPs | 3 |
Soundtracks | 1 |
Box sets | 1 |
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]
Title | Album details | Chart positions |
Certifications ( sales thresholds) |
---|---|---|---|
AUS [2] [3] [4] | |||
John Williamson |
|
— | |
Comic Strip Cowboy |
|
— | |
Road to Town |
|
— | |
Fair Dinkum J.W. |
|
142 | |
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 |
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) |
|
— | |
Singing in the Suburbs |
|
— | |
The Smell of Gum Leaves |
|
49 | |
John Williamson for Aussie Kids |
|
151 | |
Boogie with M'Baby |
|
— | |
Mates on the Road (with Pixie Jenkins, Warren H. Williams) |
|
98 [15] | |
John Williamson in Symphony (with he Sydney Symphony) |
|
— [A] |
|
Notes
Title | Album details |
---|---|
Quambatook |
|
Title | Album details | Chart positions |
Certifications ( sales thresholds) |
---|---|---|---|
AUS [2] [3] [4] [13] | |||
Radio Special |
|
— | |
Country Greats |
|
— | |
True Blue – The Best of John Williamson |
|
— | |
Humble Beginnings |
|
133 | |
All the Best! |
|
27 | |
Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 |
|
32 |
|
Love Is a Good Woman |
|
123 | |
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 |
|
— |
Title | Album details | Chart positions |
---|---|---|
AUS [25] | ||
JW Winding Back 1970-2020 |
|
50 |
Title | EP details | Chart positions |
Certifications ( sales thresholds) |
---|---|---|---|
AUS [2] [3] | |||
Old Man Emu |
|
— | |
Diggers of the Anzac |
|
100 [26] |
|
Looking for a Story |
|
32 |
This list of songs or music-related items is
incomplete; you can help by
adding missing items. (October 2021) |
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] | — |
Title | Details | Certification |
---|---|---|
John Williamson Live |
|
|
Welcome to the Campfire |
|
|
Waratah Street Live |
|
|
Australia Calling |
|
|
Mulga to Mangoes – Live At The Woolshed |
|
|
True Blue - The Videos |
|
|
For Aussie Kids |
|
|
The Way It Is |
|
|
The Way It Is |
|
|
Anthems: A Celebration of Australia |
|
|
Gunyah – I'll Sing You the Outback |
|
|
True Blue Two - The VHS Collection |
|
|
Mates On the Road |
|
|
Chandelier of Stars |
|
|
Hillbilly Road |
|
|
Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
|
|
John Williamson in Symphony |
|
|
Songs from the Outback |
|
This list of songs or music-related items is
incomplete; you can help by
adding missing items. (October 2021) |
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" |