Audio CD review:
John Denver - Poems, Prayers & Promises

John Denver - Poems, Prayers & Promises

Band: John Denver Title: Poems, Prayers & Promises Rating: Release Date: 1990-10-25 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Poems, Prayers and Promises - John Denver, Denver, John 2: Let It Be - John Denver, Lennon, John 3: My Sweet Lady - John Denver, Denver, John 4: Wooden Indian - John Denver, Denver, John 5: Junk - John Denver, McCartney, Paul 6: Gospel Changes - John Denver, Williams, Jack 7: Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver, Danoff, Bill 8: I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado - John Denver, Danoff, Bill 9: Sunshine on My Shoulders - John Denver, Denver, John 10: Around and Around - John Denver, Denver, John 11: Fire and Rain - John Denver, Taylor, James [1] 12: The Box - John Denver, Lascelles

Poems prayers and promises thanks for the great, fast service at a good price!. I have alwayes loved this album and was so glad to find it on CD. John Denver was completely unique John Denver was the only popular artist I knew who sang about all the things important to me, especially the outdoors, the environment, concern for our fellow man, love. I was a teenager in the 70's. I want to thank all the other folks writing serious reviews about this man and album. Back in the day, John Denver was NOT cool. (The Beatles, The Who, yes, NOT John Denver. ) It makes me happy to find that others feel about his music as I do. JD fan from birth This is one of the first albums I obtained as a youth. I knew John Denver's voice from the womb. (The collection has multiplied many fold since then). I like the songs on here that aren't as well known of his like "Junk" and "Wooden Indian". This man inspired many nations, and he died too young. . Remembering youth Now I have it on CD--new technology, old music. I had this album when it first came out. Wish I could turn back my body like that! This is John Denver music-what else needs to be said about a classic?. This Album is Like Sunshine On My Shoulders My parents didn't own very many LP's compared to most people who enjoy music, but this is one they did own, along with a few others by John Denver. John Denver, and especially the Poems, Prayers and Promises album, was part of my childhood. And I played it a LOT. There was something about the beauty of John's voice in harmony with his guitar painting wonderful imagery with his lyrics that enraptured me. A few years later, the very first LP I ever purchased with my own money was his original Greatest Hits album, and I played that one to death also. So a few decades have come and gone and in the meantime I hadn't really listened to John Denver, though I had at one point purchased his Windsong album on CD. I'm not sure what even prompted me think of it, but the other day I got to thinking about the Poems, Prayers and Promises album so came to Amazon to check it out and went ahead and purchased a copy. I'm very glad I did. It's funny how so many years can come and go and something can be so totally out of your mind, but the connection with your childhood and the memories are still solidly lurking. I put the album on after receiving it in the mail and played it through and sang along to the entire thing. Heh. Who knew I still had all those lyrics filed away in my head somewhere? This album is beautiful in its simplicity and proof of a truth that is too often overlooked in record production. Oftentimes, less is more. So often music is over produced, over instrumentalized, and overwhelmed. Here you get basically a sparkling clear voice and a guitar, and that's mostly all this music needs or should have. The songs on Poems, Prayers and Promises cover a fairly wide variety of topics, though it's the more thoughtful songs like the title song and "Around and Around" that are my favorites. I'm not real big on covers and this album contains four, but I actually like this version of "Let It Be" better than the Beatles version (I know, I know, heresy!) and John's "Fire and Rain" is at least as good as, if not better than, James's Taylor's. The inclusion of the recited poem "The Box" is evidently a bit controversial, since including something like that on a music album is Just Not Done. Some people love it and some hate it. I imagine if I was hearing the album for the first time now it would irritate me. But as a kid listening to the album it seemed perfectly natural for it to be included and my younger sister could recite the whole poem word for word. So it's a take it or leave it thing, but it's not really out of place on this particular album like it would have been on others, even of John Denver's. If you're like me and Denver is a nostalgic part of your past, don't wait any longer and go ahead and get this album. If you're not that familiar with him or are the type to prefer just getting hits collections, go ahead and get one. But also get this album, since some of the best songs aren't available in any of the collections. I believe that this is THE John Denver album to have in your collection, as the music here is what I think of as the essential John Denver. You can see a complete list of all John Denver discography, or go back to the John Denver tabs