Unplugged Collection

Performer: John Denver
Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: John Denver (vocals, acoustic guitar). UNPLUGGED COLLECTION brings together 16 stripped-down acoustic versions of John Denver's best-loved songs including "Rocky Mountain High" and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy." Whether or not you like Unplugged (which is not related to the MTV show of the same name) is really dependent on how much John Denver you can handle. This is an album that shows him at the peak of his performance abilities, singing beautifully and clearly over gently strummed guitars and gorgeous arrangements. The only problem is the actual songs, as Denver was always a bit too light in the lyrical content and his arrangements were very predictable. This made for some very boring moments, and those boring moments carry over into the renditions found here. There are the obvious exceptions -- "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Rocky Mountain High," etc. -- but this is really only for genuine fans, most other listeners will probably be turned off by the airy, floating feeling of the music that does not compliment Denver's strengths as a songwriter. ~ Bradley Torreano

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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