Country Roads Collection [Box set]

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Massive and impressively comprehensive, the Country Roads Box Collection 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 Country Roads, 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 Country Roads establishes John Denver's contributions as timeless, nonetheless. --Steve Gdula

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Country Roads Collection [Box set]

Average customer rating: Serious Fans Will Enjoy John Denver Collection (Country Roads) Left Us Way To Soon Less than perfect selections Remarkable!

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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

Amazon.com

Massive and impressively comprehensive, the Country Roads Box Collection 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 Country Roads, 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 Country Roads establishes John Denver's contributions as timeless, nonetheless. --Steve Gdula

Customer Reviews:

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".

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

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

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.

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! My CD player holds only three CDs at a time, so my biggest problem was which CD of the four would be left out!

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', 'How Can I Leave You Again, and 'It Amazes Me'. Songs like 'Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes', 'Sweet Surrender', 'Looking for Space' 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.

So many of us were impressed by the multitude of Denver megahits that we heard played daily on the radio but we never were introduced to the even more remarkable songs that he wrote and recorded during his career, many of which are included in this 4-CD set. I think that's what makes this collection so very special and a bargain at any price! I play it all the time and never get tired of it!

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