The Essential

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Sunshine on My Shoulders
  4:52
• 2
  Back Home Again
  4:46
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Thank God I'm a Country Boy
  3:03
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Leaving on a Jet Plane
  3:39
  4.4 ★
• 5
  Dreamland Express
  3:14
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Perhaps Love
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Take Me Home, Country Roads
  3:15
  4.4 ★
• 8
  Love Again
  2:39
• 9
  Rocky Mountain High
  4:10
• 10
  Seasons of the Heart
  3:56
• 11
  For You
  4:43
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Annie's Song
  3:12
  3.6 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Windsong
  4:01
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Cowboy's Delight
  3:06
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Spirit
  3:37
• 4
  Looking for Space
  4:01
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Shipmates and Cheyenne
  3:29
• 6
  Late Nite Radio
  2:47
• 7
  Love Is Everywhere
  3:35
• 8
  Two Shots
  3:34
• 9
  I'm Sorry
  3:32
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Fly Away
  4:13
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Calypso
  3:36
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Song of Wyoming
  3:17

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Release credits

• Artie Torgersen
  assistant [12]
• Bill Danoff
  background vocals [7], guitar [7]
• Dick Kniss
  arranger [11], bass [2.11, 1.12], double bass [7]
• Eric Weissberg
  banjo [7], pedal steel guitar [7]
• Frank Owens
  piano [7]
• Gary Chester
  membranophone [7]
• Hal Blaine
  arranger [11], drums (drum set) [11], percussion [11]
• Jean Kaplow
  assistant [7]
• Jim Gordon
  percussion [12]
• John Denver
  acoustic guitar [7], arranger [2.11, 1.4], guitar [1.12, 2.11], lead vocals [2.1, 2.4, 2.9-11, 1.2-4, 1.7, 1.12], vocal [7]
• John Sommers
  acoustic guitar [11], arranger [11], background vocals [11], banjo [11], fiddle [11], mandolin [2.11, 1.12]
• Kris O'Connor
  additional [1.2, 1.12, 2.4, 2.9-11], assistant [1.2-3, 1.12, 2.1, 2.4, 2.9-11]
• Lee Holdridge
  arranger [2.9, 2.11, 1.2, 1.12], conductor [2.9, 2.11, 1.2, 1.12], orchestrator [11]
• Lene Siel
  performer [6]
• Michael Taylor
  guitar [7]
• Mickey Crofford
  engineer [1.2-3, 1.12, 2.11]
• Milt Okun
  arranger [4], producer [1.2-4, 1.7, 1.12, 2.1, 2.4, 2.9-11]
• Olivia Newton‐John
  guest [10]
• Ray Hall
  recording [7]
• Starland Vocal Band
  background vocals [7]
• Steve Weisberg
  acoustic guitar [11], arranger [11], background vocals [11], electric guitar [11], guitar [12], resonator guitar [11], steel guitar [11]
• Taffy Nivert
  background vocals [7]
• Show all credits (22)

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  The Essential

  2x CD
  2004