The Collection: Rhymes & Reasons/Poems, Prayers & Promises/Rocky Mountain High [

Performer: John Denver
Engineer: Jim Crotty; John Woram; Ray Hall
Producer: Milton Okun; Bob Irwin (Reissue)
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: John Denver (vocals, guitar); Paul Prestopino (guitar, mandolin); George Ockner, Max Pollikoff, Sylvan Shulman, Russ Savakus (violin); George Marge (flute, English horn, baritone saxophone); Marvin Stamm, John Glasel (flute, trumpet); Richard Berg, Ray Alonze, Albert Richmond (French horn); Stan Free, Paul Griffin (piano, organ); Todd Sommer, Herb Lovelle (drums). Arrangers: John Denver; Milton Okun. The Collection: Rhymes & Reasons/Poems, Prayers & Promises/Rocky Mountain High includes all three aforementioned John Denver albums packaged separately in a relatively sparse cardboard box. While Rhymes & Reasons (1969), Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971), and Rocky Mountain High (1972) feature some of Denver's most beloved songs, casual fans would probably be happier with a compilation such as 2007's Essential John Denver or 2004's Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits. ~ 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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