TracksLeaving on a Jet Plane, Rhymes ; Reasons, Take Me Home Country Roads, Poems Prayers and Promises, I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado, Friends with You, Rocky Mountain High, Goodbye Again, I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains), Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning), Sunshine on My Shoulders, Back Home Again, Matthew, Thank God I'm a Country Boy, Annie's Song, Sweet Surrender, Looking for Space, I'm Sorry, Calypso, Fly Away, Baby You Look Good to Me Tonight, Like a Sad Song, How Can I Leave You Again, It Amazes Me, I Want to Live, My Sweet Lady, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone), The Cowboy and the Lady, Seasons of the Heart, Shanghai Breezes, Perhaps Love, Wild Montana Skies, Love Again, Dreamland Express, Is It Love?, Daydream, Everyday, For Baby (For Bobbie), Grandma's Feather Bed, Aspenglow, It Makes Me Giggle, Bet on the Blues, This Old Guitar
NotesThere is no shortage of excellent John Denver compilations, and RCA Legacy's two-disc Essential John Denver collection doesn't disappoint. All of the hits are here ("Rocky Mountain High," "Calypso," "Back Home Again," "Annie's Song," "Perhaps Love," etc.), and the sequencing is linear and concise. Fans looking for a more diminutive yet equally satisfying overview should check out 2005's Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits, but for the discerning listener looking to capture the full scope of the late country-pop great, this rich slab of history will more than suffice. [This compilation was also released as a three-disc set.] James Christopher Monger.