Country Roads Collection [Box]

Performer: John Denver
Artist: Placido Domingo; Emmylou Harris; Olivia Newton-John
Engineer: Mickey Crofford; Ray Hall
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Personnel includes: John Denver, Placido Domingo, Emmylou Harris (vocals); Olivia Newton-John (background vocals). Producers: Milton Okun, Larry Butler, John Denver, Barney Wyckoff, Roger Nichols. Compilation producer: Paul Williams. Recorded between 1969 and 1986. Includes liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Liner Note Author: Joseph F. Laredo. Arrangers: Dick Kniss; John Denver; Mike Taylor ; Milton Okun. The Country Roads Collection is a four-disc box set that not only contains all of John Denver's hits, but also a large selection of choice album cuts and unreleased material. For anyone but hardcore fans, this set will simply have too much music, but for those fans, The Country Roads Collection provides an excellent, exhaustive overview of his career. ~ 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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