Greatest Hits

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Leaving on a Jet Plane
  3:40
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Take Me Home Country Roads
  3:11
  4.4 ★
• 3
  City of New Orleans
  3:20
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Friends With You
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Annie's Song
  2:59
  3.6 ★
• 6
  Thank God I'm a Country Boy
  3:09
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Grandma's Feather Bed
  2:18
• 8
  Calypso
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Garden Song
  2:46
• 10
  Thirsty Boots
  4:38
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Dreamland Express
  4:06
  5.0 ★
• 12
  It Amazes Me
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Carolina in My Mind
  2:44
• 2
  Sunshine on My Shoulders
  5:14
  2.4 ★
• 3
  I'd Rather Be a Cowboy
  4:27
• 4
  Darcy Farrow
  4:26
• 5
  Back Home Again
  4:46
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Windsong
  4:01
• 7
  Sweet Surrender
  5:29
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Like a Sad Song
  3:45
  2.5 ★
• 9
  Some Days Are Diamonds
  4:01
  3.0 ★
• 10
  San Francisco Mabel Joy
  4:04
• 11
  The Cowboy and the Lady
  4:38
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I Want to Live
  3:46
• CD 3
• 1
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:45
  3.8 ★
• 2
  My Sweet Lady
  4:25
  2.6 ★
• 3
  Rhymes and Reason
  3:17
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Molly
  3:49
• 5
  Fly Away
  4:11
  3.5 ★
• 6
  I'm Sorry
  3:33
  3.0 ★
• 7
  How Can I Leave You Again
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Looking for Space
  4:01
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Seasons of the Heart
  3:50
• 10
  Shanghai Breezes
  3:12
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Wild Montana Skies
  4:06
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Perhaps Love
  1:52

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Earth Songs

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The Flower That Shattered the Stone

The Flower That Shattered the Stone 1990

Release credits

• Alec Whyte
  choir vocals [4]
• Annie Denver
  choir vocals [4]
• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [5]
• Barbara Carlson
  choir vocals [4]
• Barney Wyckoff
  producer [9-11]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [2], choir vocals [4], guitar [2]
• Bill Sanford
  electric guitar [9]
• Billy Sanford
  electric guitar [9]
• Bob Moore
  bass [9]
• Candy Ledbetter
  choir vocals [4]
• Chuck Domanico
  bass [2.12, 3.7]
• Denny Brooks
  background vocals [10]
• Diane Kniss
  choir vocals [4]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [1.8, 3.1], bass [3-5, 8], choir vocals [4], double bass [1.2, 3.1, 3.3, 2.2]
• Elizabeth Lindsay
  choir vocals [4]
• Emmylou Harris
  lead vocals [11]
• Eric Weissberg
  banjo [2], guitar [3], pedal steel guitar [2-4], steel guitar [1]
• Frank Owens
  piano [2]
• Gary Chester
  membranophone [2], percussion [1.3, 3.1]
• George Marge
  woodwind [4]
• Glen D. Hardin
  piano [9-11]
• Hal Blaine
  arranger [8], drums (drum set) [2.12, 3.7, 1.8], percussion [8]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  piano [9]
• Herb Lovelle
  membranophone [3]
• Herb Pedersen
  background vocals [2.12, 3.10]
• James Burton
  acoustic guitar [12], electric guitar [3.7, 3.9-11, 2.12]
• Jean Kaplow
  assistant [1.2, 2.2]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [2.9, 3.9-11]
• Jerry Scheff
  bass [9-11]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [5]
• Jim Horn
  flute [9]
• Jimmy Capps
  acoustic guitar [9]
• John Denver
  12 string guitar [3.3, 1.4, 2.2], acoustic guitar [1.2, 2.2, 2.12, 3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.11], arranger [2.12, 3.1, 3.3, 1.1, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12], choir vocals [4], electric guitar [9], guitar [5, 8], lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.4-8, 1.10, 1.12, 3.1-3, 3.5-11, 2.2, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.12], performer [11], producer [9-11], vocal [1.2, 2.6, 2.12]
• John Sommers
  acoustic guitar [8], arranger [8], background vocals [8], banjo [8], fiddle [8], mandolin [5, 8]
• Keith Lane
  choir vocals [4]
• Kenneth Boaz
  choir vocals [4]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [3.5-6, 3.8, 2.5, 1.5, 1.7-8], assistant [1.5-6, 1.8, 3.3, 3.5-8, 2.5, 2.7-8]
• Larry Butler
  producer [9]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [1.5, 1.8, 2.5, 2.7, 3.6], conductor [2.5, 2.7, 3.6, 1.5, 1.8], orchestrator [1.8, 2.12, 3.7, 3.9-10]
• Lee Ritenour
  acoustic guitar [12], classical guitar [7], electric guitar [7]
• Lennie Niehaus
  orchestrator [2]
• Leon Rhodes
  bass [9]
• Mary Angela Whyte
  choir vocals [4]
• Michael Taylor
  arranger [1], choir vocals [4], guitar [1.2-4, 2.2, 3.1], resonator guitar [3]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [2.5, 2.7, 1.5-6, 1.8]
• Mike Lang
  keyboard [2.12, 3.7]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [1.1, 1.10, 1.12, 3.3, 2.12], conductor [2], executive [11], producer [2.2, 2.5, 2.7-8, 2.12, 3.1-3, 3.5-8, 1.1-2, 1.4-8, 1.10, 1.12]
• Olivia Newton‐John
  guest [5]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [4]
• Paula Ballan
  choir vocals [4]
• Ray Edenton
  acoustic guitar [9]
• Ray Hall
  recording [2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 1.2]
• Renée Armand
  background vocals [2.12, 3.10]
• Ron Ledbetter
  choir vocals [4]
• Starland Vocal Band
  background vocals [2]
• Steve Weisberg
  acoustic guitar [8], arranger [8], background vocals [8], electric guitar [8], guitar [5], pedal steel guitar [3], resonator guitar [8], steel guitar [8]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [2], choir vocals [4]
• Toots Thielemans
  harmonica [3-4]
• Turnpike Tom
  choir vocals [4]
• [unknown]
  choir vocals [4]
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Issues

• G
  (Combined release view)
• G
  Greatest Hits

  3x CD
  2005