The discography of John Williamson, an Australian singer-songwriter, consists of twenty-one studio albums, twenty-five compilation album, eight live album, three EPs. Williamson has sold over 5 million records in Australia.
Albums Studio albums + Title Album details Chart positions Certifications(sales thresholds) AUS How Many Songs: 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 Boomerang Café Released: April 1988 Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53260) 10 Warragul Released: September 1989 Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53308) 1 ARIA: 2× Platinum JW's Family Album Released: October 1990 Label: Gumleaf / EMI Music (8140232) 21 ARIA: Platinum Waratah St Released: September 1991 Label: Gumleaf / Festival (RMC 53347) 14 ARIA: Platinum Mulga to Mangoes Released: August 1994 Label: Gumleaf / EMI (8301732) 14 ARIA: Gold Family Album No.2 Released: September 1996 Label: Gumleaf / EMI 100 Pipe Dream Released: August 1997 Label: Gumleaf / EMI (8590492) 6 ARIA: Platinum The Way It Is Released: July 1999 Label: Gumleaf / EMI (5215152) 10 ARIA: Platinum Gunyah Released: 22 April 2002 Label: Gumleaf / EMI (5391724) 20 ARIA: Gold Chandelier of Stars Released: August 2005 Label: Gumleaf / EMI (094633367128) 11 ARIA: Gold Hillbilly Road Released: 16 August 2008 Label: Warner Music Australia (2163402) 6 ARIA: Gold 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 How Many Songs Released: 4 April 2025 Label: Warner (2173259604) 51
Live albums Title Album details Chart positions Certifications(sales thresholds) AUS Travlin' Out West in Concert (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy) Released: 1973 Label: Reg Grundy Productions (TOW 1001) — 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 Label: EMI (5981832) 98 John Williamson in Symphony (with he Sydney Symphony) Released: January 2011 Format: CD / DVD Label: EMI (0944772) — ARIA: Platinum
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Soundtrack albums + Title Album details Quambatook Released: February 2008 Label:
Compilation albums + Title Album details Chart positions Certifications(sales thresholds) AUS N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart. 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 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 Country Classics Released: 1997 3×CD Label: Reader's Digest (0350806) — 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 ARIA: Gold True Blue Two Released: August 2003 Label: Gumleaf/ EMI (724359238326) 8 ARIA: Gold From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs Released: 2005 Label: Gumleaf — We Love this Country Released: 31 October 2005 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 ARIA: Platinum 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 ARIA: Gold Hell of a Career Released: 19 July 2013 Format: 2×CD Label: Warner Music Australia (5310584302) 24 His Favourite Collection Released: 19 August 2016 Format: 4×CD Label: Warner (5419724752) 9 JW Bangers Released: November 2022 Format: LP (limited edition) Label: Warner Music Australia (5419714826) —
Box sets + Title Album details Chart positions AUS JW Winding Back 1970-2020 Released: 19 June 2020 Format: 25×CD singles Label: Warner 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) How Many Songs (2025)
Extended plays Title EP details Chart positions Certifications(sales thresholds) AUS Old Man Emu Released: January 1973 Label: Fable (FBEP-160) — Diggers of the Anzac Released: 6 April 2015 Label: Tailfeather Music/ Warner 100 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 N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart. "Old Man Emu"/"Old Gum Tree" 1970 4 ARIA: Gold 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 119Waratah Street "Waratah Street" 142 "(This Is) Australia Calling" 1992 123Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 "I'll Be Gone" 131 "Good Woman" 1993 123Good 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" 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 146The Platinum Collection "Drink a Little Love" —Hillbilly Road "Cydi" — "Hillbilly Road" — "Australia Is Another Word for Free"(with Warren H. Williams) 2009 — "Better Than a Picture" — "King of the Road"(with Adam Harvey) —Both Sides Now "Island of Oceans"(with Shannon Noll) 2010 —Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue "Hang My Hat in Queensland" 2011 — The Big Red "The Big Red" 2012 — "Prairie Hotel Parachilna" 2013 — "Grandpa's Cricket" 2014 — Honest People "Honest People" — "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 "Flowers of Jacaranda" 2019 — "Three Sons"(with Aleyce Simmonds) — "Those Fifty Years" 2020 — JW Winding Back 1970-2020 "The Great Divide" — "Come Back To Me, Country" 2021 — "It's Raining Again" 2022 — "Waiting for the Sun" (with Ami Williamson) — "The Voice of the Sea" — "Voice from the Heart" 2023 — rowspan="2" "Uluru Forever" —
Video albums 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