Rocky Mountain High/Back Home Again [Box]John Denver
Release Date: 05/13/2008
Original Release:
2008
# of Discs:
2
J&R Item # 1022276_CD
UPC # 886972210322
Label: Legacy Recordings
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Disc: 2
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Performer: John Denver
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution ( Notes: This "two-fer" from Sony Legacy includes a pair of John Denver's best albums, 1972's Rocky Mountain High and 1974's Back Home Again. The latter features some of Denver's biggest singles, including "Grandma's Feather Bed," "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," "Annie's Song," "This Old Guitar," and the heartfelt title cut, while the former boasted the hits "Goodbye Again" and of course, "Rocky Mountain High." ~ James Christopher Monger
As John Denver, the former John Henry Deutschendorf was a ubiquitous icon of the 1970s. Although he had been a musician and songwriter in the 1960s, penning "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul & Mary, Denver hit his stride in the '70s with earnest folk songs celebrating the glories of the natural world and life's simple pleasures. Although he was sometimes savaged by critics for his overarching earnestness, his songs speak for themselves, and his records still sell in large numbers. In the wake of his premature death in a 1997 plane crash, a number of contemporary artists have recorded Denver's songs, without any hint of irony.
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