Track Listing

1. Back Home Again
2. On the Road
3. Grandma's Feather Bed
4. Matthew
5. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
6. Music Is You
7. Annie's Song
8. It's Up to You
9. Cool an' Green an' Shady
10. Eclipse
11. Sweet Surrender
12. This Old Guitar
13. Matthew [Alternate Version][#][*]
14. This Old Guitar [Alternate Version][#][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4072 in Music
• Brand: RCA
• Released on: 2005-06-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Album Description
John Denver, Back Home Again

Customer Reviews

Classic 70's album!
This is one of those albums that we had on 8-track as a little kid. It seemed that most people had a John Denver 8-track back in the 70's! Every track on this album is a classic, the remastering is pristine. The hits from the album were "Annie's Song" (most often thought of as "You Fill Up My Senses"), "Grandma's Feather Bed", "Back Home Again" and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy". My favorite tracks though are "Matthew", "Eclipse" and "This Old Guitar". Both "Matthew" and "This Old Guitar" are added on as bonus tracks in alternate versions. The alternate of "Guitar" sounds more intimate, "Matthew" has a fuller sound. A classic album from the 70's and for me anyway it brings back fond childhood memories.

The best original John Denver album
John never liked to be typecast but he was a country boy at heart and it was never more obvious than in this album. Whatever you may think of his other albums, this album is country. It was his best-selling album and it contains his best-selling single, Annie's song, and my favorite song of his, Back home again, together with many other classic songs.

Annie's song was a number one pop hit in both Britain and America. John had many pop hits in America but he never had another solo hit in the UK and only had one other (minor) UK hit via a duet recording (with Placido Domingo) of Perhaps love.

The ultimate homecoming song, Back home again is one of my all-time favorite songs. Several country singers covered it although those covers are now mostly hard to find. I particularly like Dottie West's version though the chances of that ever becoming available on CD seem remote. But John's own version is outstanding and was a huge American pop hit.

A live version of Thank God I'm a country boy provided John with another American number one pop hit, but it is the original studio version that you will find on this album. Grandma's feather bed is a fun song about childhood memories. Other outstanding songs include Sweet surrender, Eclipse and This old guitar, but every song here is brilliant.

This new versions makes the album sound better than ever. The two bonus tracks are alternate versions of songs that were already part of the main album. While they were doing this, they could have included the single version of Thank God I'm a country boy - they didn't, but that's a minor quibble.

This was one of the first albums I ever bought when I started collecting records on vinyl and it remains one of my favorite albums of all time.

Wish I could give it more than 5 stars
I grew up listening to this album on our 8 track player back in the 70's. It is just as wonderful as I remember it, minus the awful 8 track changing "ker-chunks" in the middle of songs . Brings back happy memories of my childhood. I own many John Denver CDs and this one is my absolute favorite and I believe is his very best. No John Denver fan will be disappointed with this one.