Country Roads Collection

Country Roads Collection Artist: John Denver
Label: RCA
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4


UPC: 078636743721
EAN: 0078636743721
ASIN: B000002X27


Release Date: 1997-08-26

Country Roads Collection


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Tracks:

  1. Leaving On A Jet Plane
  2. Circus
  3. Rhymes & Reasons
  4. Catch Another Butterfly
  5. Daydream
  6. Follow Me
  7. Aspenglow
  8. Molly
  9. Sticky Summer Weather
  10. Isabel
  11. Sunshine On My Shoulders
  12. My Sweet Lady
  13. Take Me Home Country Roads
  14. I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
  15. Poems, Prayers, And Promises
  16. Starwood In Aspen
  17. City Of New Orleans
  18. All Of My Memories
  19. Casey's Last Ride
  20. The Eagle And The Hawk
  21. Friends With You

Tracks:

  1. Rocky Mountain High
  2. For Baby (For Bobbie)
  3. Goodbye Again
  4. We Don't Live Here No More
  5. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
  6. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome To My Morning)
  7. Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
  8. Annie's Song
  9. Back Home Again
  10. Grandma's Feather Bed
  11. Sweet Surrender
  12. Eclipse
  13. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
  14. This Old Guitar
  15. Spirit
  16. Song Of Wyoming
  17. I'm Sorry
  18. Windsong
  19. Looking For Space
  20. Fly Away

Tracks:

  1. Calypso
  2. Come And Let Me Look In Your Eyes
  3. Like A Sad Song
  4. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
  5. In The Grand Way
  6. How Can I Leave You Again
  7. Ripplin' Waters
  8. It Amazes Me
  9. Singing Skies And Dancing Waters
  10. Dearest Esmerelda
  11. Thirsty Boots
  12. I Want To Live
  13. Southwind
  14. Garden Song
  15. What's On Your Mind
  16. You're So Beautiful
  17. In My Heart
  18. The Mountain Song
  19. Song For The Life
  20. Autograph

Tracks:

  1. Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
  2. Country Love
  3. Dreams
  4. Heart To Heart
  5. Shanghai Breezes
  6. Seasons Of The Heart
  7. Perhaps Love
  8. Falling Out Of Love
  9. It's About Time
  10. Wild Montana Skies
  11. Dreamland Express
  12. If Ever
  13. I'm In The Mood To Be Desired Tonight
  14. Don't Close Your Eyes, Tonight
  15. Love Is The Master
  16. I Can't Escape
  17. Love Again
  18. Flying For Me

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Amazon.com

Massive and impressively comprehensive, the <I>Country Roads Box Collection</I> is classic John Denver. Spanning four discs, the collection not only draws upon the obvious highlights of Denver's career, but also includes fan favorites that might not have received the same airplay as their more popular counterparts. Listening to <I>Country Roads</I>, the finesse with which Denver balanced his folk rock tendencies with his country leanings emerges as testament to his talent. As a box set, the collection would be remiss if it didn't include "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Annie's Song," "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," or "Rocky Mountain High"--and, of course, the box set's namesake is here. Later hits like "Calypso," with its sea-shanty yodeling, portray Denver's ability to ease himself into the role of balladeer, regardless of the genre. Novelty duets with Placido Domingo and Emmylou Harris were intended to rekindle what seemed to be lagging popularity, but <I>Country Roads</I> establishes John Denver's contributions as timeless, nonetheless. --Steve Gdula

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Serious Fans Will Enjoy.......2007-02-23

I chose this 4-CD set because it included one of my favorite Denver songs, "Eclipse". Disc four had some familiar material, but there were a lot of songs that only an avid fan would be interested. For the casual listener, or someone who wants only the popular songs I strongly recommend the 2-CD set, "The Rocky Mountain Collection".

5 out of 5 stars John Denver Collection (Country Roads).......2007-02-14

AWESOME!!!! There were so many songs that I haven't heard of so it was great to hear the new and especially the old... If you like John Denver music you definately need this one

5 out of 5 stars Left Us Way To Soon.......2006-07-24

Hi, Love John Denver & His Beautiful Music,And listening to these,ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY,Good Job,Thank's John,I had to buy these because I almost have wore out my 8-Track.Thank's Stormy

4 out of 5 stars Less than perfect selections.......2006-06-23

The first problem for any John Denver 'best of' collection is to determine which version of certain great songs should be featured. For example, should the album have the original studio version of 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy' or have the live version that was the super hit? Should it have the live or studio versions of 'My Sweet Lady' and 'Sweet Surrender'? Similarly, should it have the original spare version of 'Sunshine On My Shoulders' or the string laden version that appeared on Greatest Hits?

Such choices are forever debatable. I have come to believe that for John Denver both versions of such songs should be includued on a box set. The greater weakness of the collection is that almost 50% of it comes after the Windsong album, which was Denver's final truly first-rate album. While the songs recorded after Windsong that are here are all fine to very good, with a couple that are pure gems, thus I would advocate cutting none, to make roon for those songs, great songs from earlier in Denver's career were omitted.

From the Rocky Mountain High album, I would also include the Season Suite, which has 5 short parts: 'Summer,' 'Fall,' Winter,' 'Late Winter, Early Spring,' and 'Spring.' From Farewll Andromeda I would add 'Berkeley Woman.' From Back Home Again I would add 'Matthew' and 'The Music is You.' From Windsong I would add 'Cowboy's Delight' and 'Two Shots.' Though I see I Want to Live as the album that marks Denver's beginning descent into cliched repetition and do-gooding sloganeering, I would add from that album 'To the Wild Country.' If only because of Denver's love of nature, a box set should include him singing Michael Martin Murphy's 'Boy from the Country.'

So, basically what I am saying is that this should be a 5 disc set. While there is much about it that is very good, I can't help but think about its many omissions.

5 out of 5 stars Remarkable!.......2006-06-22

I was hesitant at first about purchasing such a large volume of Denver's works, several of which I had never heard, but after I started playing the CDs, I became hooked! The man was a poetic genius!

Some of the songs that I'd never heard before became my favorites. I was delighted to learn that John had a very spiritual side that showed up often in his musical compositions. I especially love 'Singing Skies and Dancing Waters'. It touched me deeply. Songs like 'Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes', 'Sweet Surrender', and 'Wild Montana Skies' soon found their way to my 'must be played every day' list.

John's songwriting covered most of the happiness and complexities of the human condition as evidenced in 'For Baby','Follow Me','Seasons of the Heart', 'Shaghai Breezes', and 'I Can't Escape', just a few of his sensitive and lovely, although lesser known works that are included in this stellar collection. Two of the most beautiful songs he ever wrote, 'My Sweet Lady' and 'Perhaps Love', are also featured.

For the platinum hit fans, all the standards are included as well: 'Take Me Home Country Roads', 'Leaving on a Jet Plane', and 'Rocky Mountain High' among many, many others.

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