Best

Tracklist

• 1
  Take Me Home, Country Roads
  3:11
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:43
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Goodbye Again
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 4
  My Sweet Lady
  4:27
  2.6 ★
• 5
  Forest Lawn
  2:41
• 6
  Sunshine on My Shoulders
  5:12
  2.4 ★
• 7
  Leaving, on a Jet Plane
  4:05
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Friends With You
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 9
  The Eagle and the Hawk
  2:16
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Prisoners
  3:41
• 11
  Annie’s Song
  3:02
  3.6 ★
• 12
  Poems, Prayers and Promisses
  4:36
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Please Daddy
  2:58
  2.0 ★
• 14
  Mr. Bojangles
  4:39
• 15
  City of New Orleans
  3:20
  3.5 ★
• 16
  Back Home Again
  4:46
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Starwood in Aspen
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Follow Me
  2:55
  3.0 ★
• 19
  I’d Rather Be a Cowboy
  4:28
  3.5 ★
• 20
  Rhymes and Reasons
  3:12
  3.0 ★

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The Best of John Denver

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The Wildlife Concert

The Wildlife Concert 1995

Earth Songs

Earth Songs 1990

The Flower That Shattered the Stone

The Flower That Shattered the Stone 1990

Release credits

• Alec Whyte
  choir vocals [8]
• Annie Denver
  choir vocals [8]
• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [11]
• Barbara Carlson
  choir vocals [8]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [1], choir vocals [8], guitar [1]
• Candy Ledbetter
  choir vocals [8]
• Diane Kniss
  choir vocals [8]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [2-3, 9], bass [8, 11, 15], choir vocals [8], double bass [1-3, 6-7, 9, 12, 17-18, 20]
• Elizabeth Lindsay
  choir vocals [8]
• Eric Weissberg
  banjo [1], guitar [15], pedal steel guitar [1, 8, 15], steel guitar [2]
• Frank Owens
  piano [1, 3, 17-18], strings [3]
• Gary Chester
  membranophone [1], percussion [2-3, 15]
• George Marge
  woodwind [8]
• Herb Lovelle
  membranophone [7, 9, 12, 17-18, 20]
• Jean Kaplow
  assistant [1, 6]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [11]
• John Denver
  12 string guitar [3, 6-9, 12, 17-18, 20], acoustic guitar [1-3, 6-7, 9, 12, 17-18, 20], arranger [2-3, 9, 19-20], choir vocals [8], guitar [11], lead vocals [1-4, 6, 8-9, 11, 16, 19-20], vocal [1, 3, 7, 9, 12, 17-18]
• John Sommers
  mandolin [11]
• Keith Lane
  choir vocals [8]
• Kenneth Boaz
  choir vocals [8]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [11, 16], assistant [7, 9, 11-12, 16, 18, 20]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [11, 16], conductor [11, 16], orchestrator [9], strings [12, 17-19]
• Lennie Niehaus
  orchestrator [6]
• Martine Habib
  background vocals [3, 18]
• Mary Angela Whyte
  choir vocals [8]
• Michael Taylor
  arranger [2-3, 9], choir vocals [8], guitar [1-3, 6, 8, 15], resonator guitar [15]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [11, 16]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [19-20], conductor [6, 9, 12, 17], producer [1-4, 6-9, 11-12, 16-20]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [8]
• Paul Prestopino
  guitar [12], harmonica [17]
• Paula Ballan
  choir vocals [8]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [19], recording [1-3, 6-7, 9, 12, 17-18, 20]
• Ron Ledbetter
  choir vocals [8]
• Starland Vocal Band
  background vocals [1]
• Steve Weisberg
  guitar [7, 9, 11-12, 17], pedal steel guitar [20]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [1], choir vocals [8]
• Toots Thielemans
  harmonica [8, 15]
• Turnpike Tom
  choir vocals [8]
• [unknown]
  choir vocals [8]
• Show all credits (39)

Issues

• 

  B
  (Combined release view)
• 

  B
  Best

  CD
  1989