Paradise is the sixteenth studio album by American
country music artist
John Anderson. It was released in 1996 under the
BNA Records label. The album produced the singles: "Paradise" (also recorded by
Pirates of the Mississippi on their 1995 album Paradise), which peaked at 26 on United States Country charts and 21 on Canadian charts, "Long Hard Lesson Learned", which peaked at 51 and "My Kind of Crazy", which peaked at 67.
Critical reception
Sara Sytsma of
Allmusic rated the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "featur[es] a handful of great songs that cancel out the fair amount of filler on the record."[1] Chet Flippo of Billboard called it "traditional, uncompromising John Anderson country".[2]