Windsong

Performer: John Denver
Producer: Milton Okun
Distributor: BMG Special Products

Notes: Personnel: John Denver (vocals, guitar); John Sommers (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin); Mary Ann Duffy, Olivia Newton-John (vocals); Eric Weissberg (steel guitar, banjo); Byron Berline (mandolin, violin); Jesse Ehrlich (cello); Jimmie Fadden (harmonica); John Ellis (oboe); Hal Blaine (drums). Arranger: Lee Holdridge. Windsong was released at the peak of John Denver's career, and rode to Number One on the strength of his previous success, and the epic "Calypso," which happened to provide the touchstone for the album. Essentially, Windsong is an album about communing with nature, and an overall thematic thrust is missing from many other Denver records. There may not be that many songs that match "Calypso," but many come close, helping elevate Windsong into Denver's front rank of albums. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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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