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Re-Issue John Denver Windsong Songs Windsong Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Very, very well-crafted
Here, you can see all of the elements that made up John Denver's career: the intimate folk singer/songwriter; the lonely cowboy on the range; the slick, adult contemporary entertainer; the whimsical, child-like balladeer; and more. Each song on this album is very, very well-crafted, with the obvious standout "Calypso" being the strongest song on here. There are other strong songs here, but "Calypso" just takes the cake, and was the epitome of John's commercially artistic success. There is no way that I can imagine anybody else other than John doing these songs; there just is no other voice that could do what he did on "Calypso". This is a good album to start with, if you want to start buying John's albums, because this is a blend of everything he was and everything he became. Definitely a masterpiece on John's part.
Submitted by Galen Baumgartner (Anchorage, AK, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. His Best Early Work!
Like most artists, the most endearing
and sublime of his works are often the
least known. The exquisite poetry and
imagery of "Windsong" have made it my
personal favorite of all of his albums.
Any one who has not heard this one is
seriously missing out!
Submitted by a reviewer (San Francisco, CA USA) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Classic!
This album contains some of the finest works he ever did. The songs sound as wonderful today as they did in the 1970's.
Submitted by a reviewer (Studio City (L.A.), CA)
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Can you capture the wind?? Can you tell about it if you did?? John Denver did and did it very, very well. Calypso is it's highlight!! Riding the horse on the ocean beach put the cherry on top of the album!!!
Submitted by Nimtz (Mesa, Arizona)
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| | John Denver Poems, Prayers And Promises CD (1971)
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John Denver's breakthrough album, 1971's POEMS, PRAYERS AND PROMISES, is also one of his best. In addition to containing two of Denver's strongest and best-known compositions, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Sunshine on My Shoulders," POEMS, PRAYERS AND PROMISES epitomizes the straightforward folk of the artist's early recordings, without the country and pop influences that would find their way into his later '70s work. The disc has a close, intimate feel, with Denver's softly finger-picked guitar and clear, plaintive tenor front and center throughout.
The reflective lyrics and pensive ...
| | John Denver Rocky Mountain High CD (1972)
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH heightened John Denver's profile as one of the key folk singers of the 1970s. The record became the artist's first to hit the Top 10 on the strength of its expansive, memorable title track and an overall sound distinguished by a more fully fleshed band, including backing vocals, fiddle, and lap steel. As opposed to ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH's predecessor POEM, PRAYERS AND PROMISES, there is some percussion here as well.
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| | John Denver Back Home Again (Rca) CD (1974) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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As the 1970s progressed, John Denver slowly moved away from the melancholy folk-singer mode that characterized his early albums and towards a brighter, more country-inflected sound. BACK HOME AGAIN crystallizes the latter phase, and consequently proved one of Denver's most commercially successful albums. In large part, this has to do with the fine batch of songs here, which includes the warm, comforting title track; the lazy, lilting "Cool an' Green an' Shady;" and the sprightly "Grandma's Feather Bed," which almost demands a group sing-along.
As usual, however, Denver slips in some affectingly pensive unaccompanied moments. The tender "Sweet Surrender" and ...
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| | Shirley Collins Power Of The True Love Knot CD (1968)
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While credited to Shirley Collins, this reissue of a 1967 album is really the work of Collins and her sister, Dolly Collins, who provides the fascinating instrumental settings courtesy of a modern reproduction of a 1643 miniature pipe organ, with its distinctive flutey sound. That sound, combined with Dolly Collins' arrangements and keyboard decorations, give these traditional songs the sound of early music: restrained and almost medieval. The expansive sleeve notes give a background to the songs (Collins had worked as a researcher, both in England and the U.S., where she helped Alan Lomax during his 1959 U.S. field recordings), which helps the listener understand a great deal more about "Over the Hills and Far Away," for example, a song that's been reinvented since the days of John Gay, and "The Beggar's Opera." But above all, it's Shirley Collins' voice that brings these pieces to life. Breathy and often artless, there's a sincerity and depth to it that's both warm and undeniable. She lives these pieces, whether it's the tale of "Lovely Joan" or the ballad sadness of "Barbara Allen" (surely one of the best-known of all traditional songs on both sides of the Atlantic). It's easy to forget in the mists of time that during the late '60s, this particular adventurous strand of folk music found an audience outside the genre, when the Collins sisters signed to the progressive label Harvest. Before the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Collins herself was already breaking boundaries, and this disc, with its pristine Joe Boyd production, was one of the first to demolish those barriers. So not only is it a small musical masterpiece, it's seminal in the modern history of folk music. Fledg'ling. 2003.
One of the highlights of Shirley Collins's catalog, THE POWER OF THE TRUE LOVE KNOT is also one of the loveliest collections in the entire British Folk Revival. Always much more purist than her psychedelia-embracing contemporary, Sandy Denny, Collins could nonetheless distill a medieval or traditional ballad to its most hypnotic, thrumming core. Backed ...
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Principally recorded live at Cafe Largo, Los Angeles, California.
"Songs about lost lovers, old friends, inanimate objects, the quandary of balancing money against art and the best ode to Mom since Tupac rapped from his prison cell...Rock on, brother Jude." --- SNACK CAKE MAGAZINE"The mid-American troubadour with the most amazing angelic tenor voice, at once reminds me of a persuasive, charismatic Dylan, a ragged and ripped jeans Jim Croce, and at times inherits the valuability of Tori Amos." --- ROCK LOVE"Jude is a singer/songwriter from L.A. whose voice and vision hark back to a long-vanished time when a kid and his guitar meant something. You know, a young starving artist whose damaged life makes no sense until the moment he gets on stage and begins to sing. He carries ...
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1964's "Wine, Women, and Song" leads off the set, one of a series of Lynn's justly famous "ain't-gonna-take-it" songs. Following the floozy-bashing anthem "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man), come a seemingly endless stream of number one hits, including "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (with Lovin' on Your Mind," "Fist ...
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