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John Williamson discography
Studio albums20
EPs3
Live albums8
Compilation albums24
Soundtracks1
Box sets1

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

Albums

Studio albums

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.
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

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)
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Reg Grundy Productions (TOW 1002)
Singing in the Suburbs
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Festival (L38100)
  • Re-release as Waltzing Matilda Live in 2000.
The Smell of Gum Leaves
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: Festival (L38245)
  • Re-reeased as Home Among the Gumtrees in 1997
49
John Williamson for Aussie Kids
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: EMI
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[13]
  • Label: EMI (5981832)
98 [14]
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.[15]

Soundtrack albums

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

Compilation albums

Title Album details Chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
AUS
[2][3][4]
Radio Special
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Mercury (JW-001)
Country Greats
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Mercury (9199635)
True Blue – The Best of John Williamson
Humble Beginnings
  • Released: 1985
  • 2×LP
  • Label: Festival (L45945)
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: 1993
  • Label: EMI Music (8279112)
True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson
  • Released: November 1995
  • 2x CD
  • Label: EMI Music (8146312)
21
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum[17]
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: Readers 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[20]
  • Label: Gumleaf, EMI (3119932)
Country Classics 2
  • Released: 2006
  • Format: 2×CD
  • Label: Readers 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

Box Sets

Title Album details Chart positions
AUS
[23]
JW Winding Back 1970-2020
  • Released: 19 June 2020
  • Format: 25×CD singles
  • Label: Warner
50

Extended plays

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
[24]
Looking for a Story
  • Released: 22 April 2016
  • Label: Tailfeather Music/ Warner
32

Singles

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUS
[2][3][4]
"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 JW's Family Album
"Christmas Photo"
"A Flag of Our Own" 1991 Waratah Street
"Waratah Street"
"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"[25]
"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"[26] 2008 Hillbilly Road
"Cydi"[26]
"Hillbilly Road"[26]
"Australia Is Another Word for Free"(with Warren H. Williams)[26] 2009
"Better Than a Picture"[26]
"King of the Road"(with Adam Harvey) Both Sides Now
"Island of Oceans"(with Shannon Noll) [27] 2010 Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue
"Hang My Hat in Queensland"[28] 2011 The Big Red
"The Big Red" 2012
"Prairie Hotel Parachilna"[29] 2013
"Grandpa's Cricket"[30] 2014 Honest People
"Honest People"[31]
"Clouds Over Tamworth"
"Looking for a Story" 2016 Looking for a Story
"Aussie Girls!" His Favourite Collection
"Pigs on the River" 2017 Butcherbird
"Love Is the Word" non-album single
"The Valley Of His Dreams" 2018 Butcherbird
"Those Fifty Years" 2020 JW Winding Back 1970-2020

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"

References

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  12. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
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  14. ^ "ARIA Report Issue 732" (PDF). 7 April 2004. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  15. ^ "ARIA Report Issue 1103" (PDF). ARIA. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
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  27. ^ "John Celebrates 40 Years". Australian Times. April 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  28. ^ "Hang My Hat in Queensland - single". Apple Music. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  29. ^ "Prairie Hotel Parachilna - single". Apple Music. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  30. ^ "Grandpa's Cricket –Single". Apple Music. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  31. ^ "Honest People – Single". Apple Music. Retrieved 23 September 2018.