Cougar
Enlightened Member
So I'm down at the little Clark Fork library getting a new book to read. They have a box out front with several books in it. Says everything in the box is free. I glance through it. Jeez, there is John Denver's book Take Me Home, An Autobiography.
I don't know what the heck that blue guitar is, but I definitely took THAT home, and I've been slowly rolling through it. Really interesting reading if you like John Denver. He obviously got a big boost when Peter Paul and Mary sang his Leavin' on a Jet Plane....
I was surprised he was not the sole author of Country Roads. During a late-night get-together at friends Bill and Taffy Danoff's after a gig, Bill brought out a song he'd been working on that he didn't think was going anywhere and asked John if he might have some thoughts on what to do with it. Obviously he did -- it went gold in 1971 and platinum in 2017. In 2023, the song was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry.
I don't know what the heck that blue guitar is, but I definitely took THAT home, and I've been slowly rolling through it. Really interesting reading if you like John Denver. He obviously got a big boost when Peter Paul and Mary sang his Leavin' on a Jet Plane....
I was surprised he was not the sole author of Country Roads. During a late-night get-together at friends Bill and Taffy Danoff's after a gig, Bill brought out a song he'd been working on that he didn't think was going anywhere and asked John if he might have some thoughts on what to do with it. Obviously he did -- it went gold in 1971 and platinum in 2017. In 2023, the song was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry.