Married since 1983, with two daughters, Anderson leaned on his family to push through. It was a great way of living for me - and then it went away.” “I always have thanked God for never having to work, what I called work. “As a musician who lived this way, this job has always been so easy and so natural,” Anderson says. That momentum carried him into the 2000s, giving him 60 charting country singles in four consecutive decades. 1 hits in the ‘80s with “Wild and Blue,” “Swingin’,” and “Black Sheep.” After a brief career lull, he staged a major comeback in 1992 as “Straight Tequila Night” became his first No.
Records.Īfter charting modestly in the late ‘70s, Anderson scored No. He worked in construction – he was on the roofing crew for the new Grand Ole Opry House – before landing a contract with Warner Bros. He started his music career performing solo around Florida before moving to Florida. At one point, his hearing left him with what he calls “terrible noise,” forcing him to come off the road for the first time in 40 years.Īs a child growing up in Apopka, Florida, Anderson remembers humming along to the tone of his father’s boat motor. There’s not a doubt in my mind.”ĭuring his health scare, he’d lost his sense of pitch and even his ability to recognize his own songs on the radio.
But the biggest part is knowing that I might die here any minute, for who knows what reason, but I know that the good Lord already came down and touched me. “Part of it is my love for music and part of it is my appreciation for my family. “There’s a few things that I came out of this whole deal better with,” Anderson says. However, his recovery has become his testimony. Remarkably, Anderson kept his health crisis a secret from his touring band and the music industry, and even now he prefers not to get into all of the details. That knowledge weighed heavily on the legendary country singer while writing and recording Years because he knew that his next appointment – just a few days after the sessions - would require the same anesthesia. His wife told him that it had happened three times. In a risky procedure a few months earlier, when anesthesia was used, Anderson was told by doctors that he’d died on the operating room table. John Anderson pushed himself to complete his vocals for Years, telling producer Dan Auerbach, “Let’s get everything because I might not wake up.” Watch the interview clip below where Marty Stuart discussed his marriage to Connie Smith below.John Anderson will be giving us a special treat during this Fall Concert, a rare acoustic performance…Imagine that Legendary voice, unplugged just for this event at Fredricks Outdoors… BACKGROUND ON JOHN ANDERSON… Connie Smith is 80 years old (born August 14, 1941). Smith replied with “let’s do that again!’ and the romance officially started there.ĭespite their 17 year age difference and Connie’s reluctance to marry for a fourth time, the couple tied the knot on July 8, 1997! The pair have lived happily ever after since! Marty Stuart is 63 years old (born September 30, 1958).
When he found her there he walked up to her car and kissed her. She let me get it all out and she said ‘son, 5 minutes of the right thing is better than 50 years of the wrong thing’ and I said ‘case closed’” Stuart recalls in the video.Īfter the pep talk, Stuart asked Smith to meet him in the parking lot of a grocery store in Nashville. “I said ‘mama I need to come talk to you’, and I laid out everything I was feeling and the impossibilities and how ridiculous it all looked on paper.
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