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John Denver - Spirit Audio CD

A fair review of the John Denver "Spirit" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all John Denver reviews here, or go back to the John Denver tabs.

John Denver Band: John Denver
Title: Spirit
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-02-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes 2: Eli's Song 3: Wrangle Mountain Song 4: Hitchhiker 5: In the Grand Way 6: Polka Dots and Moonbeams 7: It Makes Me Giggle 8: Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight 9: Like a Sad Song 10: San Antonio Rose 11: Pegasus 12: Wings That Fly Us Home 13: Whose Garden Was This [*] 14: Game Is Over [*] 15: Eleanor Rigby [*] 16: Old Folks [*] 17: Medley: Golden Slumbers/Sweet Sweet Life/Tremble If You Must [Version]

Spirit

Fun to listen to. A great collection of Denver song's I hadn't heard before.


Amongst the best


Some have taken this opportunity to complain of John's humanity, how his life didn't always reflect the music. No doubt, this album is a favorite for the songs on it, but one amongst many. The music is the best in us ALL. . . and each of us would pale compared to our best.

(For the record, his license wasn't suspended for DUIs, it was only technically suspended because he hadn't renewed the medical yet. )

Any man who brings so much good to light is a hero in my book. JD and his music brought me to the mountains, the ocean, to bothering to fly, to travel and work in Africa. . . helped calm some of my own demons, certainly improved and affected my own songs and performances. . . made it okay to be into his sort of music while my peers only listened to very hard rock.

I can still remember the first time I heard RMH on the radio, how it stopped me in my tracks, had me glued to the speaker, gloriously elated to hear acoustic guitars so intricately interwoven and driven. . . Few days have gone by in the 40 years since then that his music hasn't had a distinct and profound affect upon my life, shown me, brought me to be open to greater possibilities -- both within the world and myself. He has many good albums, before and after Spirit, but this is amongst the best of them.


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I love John Denvers music. Spirit is a beautiful song. Mountians, the earth and the animals,what great things he chose to be close to his heart. He really knew what living was all about!.


Great talent!!
Such a loss to the world. Once again, John showed what incredible talent he had both as a song writer and singer. A+, a "must" for any JD fan!!!.


The last of his best
While my friends were into Fraternity of Man, Led Z and Tarkas, John Denver's music resonated in me and matched the experiences I was having in my life. John Denver's music defined my life as a teen and a young man. In my early adult years, beginning with Windsong and Spirit, he started moving from easygoing nature boy and peace advocate into the mystical and more radical side of things. His music after Spirit reflected this shift, and I got increasingly disenchanted with it. Someone gave me I Want To Live as a gift, but I think Spirit was the last JD album I bought with my own money.

In addition, his personal life at the time started clashing with the public image he had built over the years. The love and fidelity for his wife that he celebrated in "Back Home Again" turned out to be a sham. He wrapped his Porsche around a tree (once? twice?) while speeding drunk along dangerous mountain roads, and tried many times to beat the ticket -- so much for love of nature, preserving natural resources, respect for fellowman and so on. When he crashed his plane, he was doing what he loved, but he was doing it with a suspended pilot's license -- suspended because of his history of drunken driving.

So JD and I parted company after Spirit. I didn't even listen to my old albums until after his death, when my kids started living through the same experiences I'd lived through. Suddenly the old music was relevant again. Telling bedtime stories to my children turned "Pegasus" into something magical, and similarly, tickle fights with the kids in the living room redeemed "It Makes Me Giggle". Watching a 13-year-old boy grow up made "Come and Let Me Look In Your Eyes" suddenly relevant. Dancing with my daughters brought back images of "Polka Dots and Moonbeams. " Traveling home from business overseas personalized "Like a Sad Song" and "The Wrangell Mountain Song" (and "Starwood in Aspen," surprisingly). And watching my children's spiritual awakenings evoked, as others have mentioned, the last chorus of "The Wings that Fly Us Home. "

I have no use for "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight. " (It is good music, written and performed well, and it's REALLY fun to parody, but I've grown to associate it with the later Denver, and so it goes to the bottom of the Suck-o-Meter, in my opinion. ) But the rest of the album is good stuff, the last of the kind of music that won the hearts of so many people, made him famous, and made his concerts so much fun.


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