Name: All of My Memories: The John Denver Collection [11/3] *
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Album: All of My Memories: The John Denver Collection *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Road, The - (previously unreleased, mono)
2)	Far Side of the Hill - (previously unreleased, mono)
3)	Wagoner Lad, The
4)	Darcy Farrow - (mono)
5)	Babe, I Hate To Go - (mono)
6)	For Bobbi
7)	'68 Nixon, The (This Year's Model)
8)	Take Me to Tomorrow
9)	Rhymes and Reasons - (previously unreleased)
10)	Circus
11)	Catch Another Butterfly
12)	Daydream
13)	Leaving on a Jet Plane
14)	Isabel
15)	Anthem - Revelation
16)	Aspenglow
17)	Game Is Over, The
18)	My Sweet Lady
19)	Around and Around - (featuring Fat City)
20)	Take Me Home, Country Roads - (featuring Fat City)
21)	I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
22)	All of My Memories
23)	Sunshine On My Shoulders
24)	Friends With You
25)	Everyday - (featuring Fat City/Toots Thielemans)
26)	Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream)
27)	Grizzly Bear Song
1)	Rocky Mountain High
2)	Starwood In Aspen - (featuring Toots Thielemans)
3)	For Baby (For Bobbie)
4)	Goodbye Again
5)	Prisoners
6)	Eagle and the Hawk, The
7)	Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
8)	Berkeley Woman - (featuring Fat City)
9)	I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
10)	Back Home Again
11)	Thank God I'm a Country Boy [Live 1975]
12)	Grandma's Feather Bed [Live 1975]
13)	Matthew
14)	Annie's Song
15)	Follow Me
16)	Looking for Space
17)	Sweet Surrender
18)	Windsong
19)	Eclipse
20)	Poems, Prayers and Promises
21)	This Old Guitar
1)	Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
2)	Calypso
3)	Spirit [Live 1977, Sydney Opera House, Australia] - (previously unreleased)
4)	Fly Away
5)	I'm Sorry
6)	Like a Sad Song
7)	Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes
8)	Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight - (featuring Starland Vocal Band)
9)	It Makes Me Giggle
10)	Eli's Song [Alternate Take] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
11)	It Amazes Me
12)	I Want To Live
13)	In My Heart
14)	How Can I Leave You Again
15)	It's a Sin To Tell a Lie [Previously Unreleased Version] - (previously unreleased)
16)	Druthers
17)	Bet On the Blues
18)	Downhill Stuff
19)	Sweet Melinda
20)	Wrangell Mountain Song, The
21)	Autograph
22)	Durango Mountain Caballero
23)	Wings That Fly Us Home, The
1)	Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
2)	Dreamland Express
3)	Love Again
4)	Opposite Tables
5)	Flying For Me
6)	Perhaps Love
7)	Shanghai Breezes
8)	Flower That Shattered the Stone, The
9)	Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)
10)	Love is the Master
11)	Wild Montana Skies
12)	Boy From the Country [Live 1985]
13)	Whispering Jesse
14)	Eagles and Horses [Live 1995]
15)	And So It Goes
16)	Foxfire Suite: Spring Is Alive/You Are/Whisper the Wind/Spring Is Alive, The (Reprise) [Live 1995]
17)	Tenderly Calling
18)	On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
19)	Tumbling Tumbleweeds/Happy Trails

Album: All of My Memories: The John Denver Collection *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Road, The - (previously unreleased, mono)
2)	Far Side of the Hill - (previously unreleased, mono)
3)	Wagoner Lad, The
4)	Darcy Farrow - (mono)
5)	Babe, I Hate To Go - (mono)
6)	For Bobbi
7)	'68 Nixon, The (This Year's Model)
8)	Take Me to Tomorrow
9)	Rhymes and Reasons - (previously unreleased)
10)	Circus
11)	Catch Another Butterfly
12)	Daydream
13)	Leaving on a Jet Plane
14)	Isabel
15)	Anthem - Revelation
16)	Aspenglow
17)	Game Is Over, The
18)	My Sweet Lady
19)	Around and Around - (featuring Fat City)
20)	Take Me Home, Country Roads - (featuring Fat City)
21)	I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
22)	All of My Memories
23)	Sunshine On My Shoulders
24)	Friends With You
25)	Everyday - (featuring Fat City/Toots Thielemans)
26)	Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream)
27)	Grizzly Bear Song
1)	Rocky Mountain High
2)	Starwood In Aspen - (featuring Toots Thielemans)
3)	For Baby (For Bobbie)
4)	Goodbye Again
5)	Prisoners
6)	Eagle and the Hawk, The
7)	Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
8)	Berkeley Woman - (featuring Fat City)
9)	I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
10)	Back Home Again
11)	Thank God I'm a Country Boy [Live 1975]
12)	Grandma's Feather Bed [Live 1975]
13)	Matthew
14)	Annie's Song
15)	Follow Me
16)	Looking for Space
17)	Sweet Surrender
18)	Windsong
19)	Eclipse
20)	Poems, Prayers and Promises
21)	This Old Guitar
1)	Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
2)	Calypso
3)	Spirit [Live 1977, Sydney Opera House, Australia] - (previously unreleased)
4)	Fly Away
5)	I'm Sorry
6)	Like a Sad Song
7)	Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes
8)	Baby, You Look Good To Me Tonight - (featuring Starland Vocal Band)
9)	It Makes Me Giggle
10)	Eli's Song [Alternate Take] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
11)	It Amazes Me
12)	I Want To Live
13)	In My Heart
14)	How Can I Leave You Again
15)	It's a Sin To Tell a Lie [Previously Unreleased Version] - (previously unreleased)
16)	Druthers
17)	Bet On the Blues
18)	Downhill Stuff
19)	Sweet Melinda
20)	Wrangell Mountain Song, The
21)	Autograph
22)	Durango Mountain Caballero
23)	Wings That Fly Us Home, The
1)	Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
2)	Dreamland Express
3)	Love Again
4)	Opposite Tables
5)	Flying For Me
6)	Perhaps Love
7)	Shanghai Breezes
8)	Flower That Shattered the Stone, The
9)	Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)
10)	Love is the Master
11)	Wild Montana Skies
12)	Boy From the Country [Live 1985]
13)	Whispering Jesse
14)	Eagles and Horses [Live 1995]
15)	And So It Goes
16)	Foxfire Suite: Spring Is Alive/You Are/Whisper the Wind/Spring Is Alive, The (Reprise) [Live 1995]
17)	Tenderly Calling
18)	On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
19)	Tumbling Tumbleweeds/Happy Trails

Performer Notes

Photographers: Patti Dahlstrom; Dave Hecht; Sandy Speiser; Harrison Funk; Nick Sangiamo; Bill Warren.
Since his tragic death in 1997, John Denver's legacy has been well-covered in a wide variety of greatest-hits packages and various anthologies. His most well-known work has always been widely available, but Sony's career-spanning four-disc set, All of My Memories: The John Denver Collection, digs a bit deeper, offering tracks from nearly every one of the acclaimed singer's studio and live albums from 1964 until the year of his death. They've also uncovered a selection of rare, unreleased tracks in the form of early demos and alternate versions. With his warm, dynamic tenor and earnest, folksy demeanor, Denver's career soared in the late '60s and '70s with hits like "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Back Home Again," songs that have since become firmly entrenched standards in American music. For many fans, a simple Best Of collection will suffice. But in a recording career that spanned over three decades, it's important to look past the key tracks to get a clearer picture of what so endeared fans to his music. Part of Denver's appeal was his relatable, unthreatening character. In a time when the dramatic counterculture had crossed into the mainstream, his polite songs about love, country living, and appreciating nature felt wholesome and genuine. He had a knack for sweet melodies that spoke of clean living and there was nothing dangerous or revolutionary about folk songs like "Starwood in Aspen" or "Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)," whose messages of coming home or heading out remain timeless. Of course, not everyone wanted to see the world through Denver's rose-hued granny glasses, and he was often dismissed as corny and old-fashioned, an image he largely accepted rather than fought. Throughout the generous 90 tracks on this set, there are strong themes of love and friendship, as he sings with companions like the Muppets, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, Olivia Newton-John, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He sings about nature conservation, a cause he was closely tied to throughout his career. There are classic folk tracks from his early days fronting the Chad Mitchell Trio and over-produced country songs from the mid-'90s when, long after the hits had dried up, he still happily sang of cowboys and wide open land, all of it adding up to the greater picture of a man who stayed true to his image and seemingly, his heart. The quality of the production changes throughout the decades and there are plenty of songs that weren't hits for a reason, but there was never an unfortunate disco period or crossover into rock. They all sound like John Denver songs. Listening to his entire career arc, he remained the earnest and good-natured, if occasionally sad character who first made an impression with the plaintive "Leaving on a Jet Plane," a song whose wistful sentiments ring as pure today as they did in 1966. ~ Timothy Monger

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] handsome 4-CD summation of the Southern folkie's three-decade legacy."

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