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Back Home Again (John Denver album)

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Released
  
June 15, 1974

Label
  
RCA

Release date
  
15 June 1974

Producers
  
Milt Okun, Susan Ruskin

Recorded
  
1974

Artist
  
John Denver

Genres
  
Country music, Folk music

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Back Home Again (1974)
  
An Evening with John Denver (1975)

Awards
  
American Music Award for Favorite Country Album, Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year

Similar
  
John Denver albums, Country music albums

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Back Home Again is the eighth album by singer-songwriter John Denver released in June 1974. The multi-platinum album contained the hit singles "Annie's Song" (#1 pop, #1 adult contemporary), and "Back Home Again" (#5 pop, #1 AC, #1 country). In addition, the studio versions of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "Sweet Surrender" appear on this album. The song "The Music is You" is a bonus track on the 1998 reissue of Rocky Mountain Christmas.

Contents

On the cover, John is shown with his then-wife Ann Martell.

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Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by John Denver; except where indicated

Side one

  1. "Back Home Again" 4:42
  2. "On the Road" (Carl Franzen) 2:33
  3. "Grandma's Feather Bed" (Jim Connor) 2:15
  4. "Matthew" 3:43
  5. "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"A (John Sommers) 3:06
  6. "The Music Is You"B 1:26

Side two

  1. "Annie's Song" 2:58
  2. "It’s Up to You" (Steve Weisberg)B 2:26
  3. "Cool an' Green an' Shady" (Denver, Joe Henry)B 3:07
  4. "Eclipse"B 3:41
  5. "Sweet Surrender"A 5:29
  6. "This Old Guitar" 2:50

A Original studio version, subsequently a US hit single from the live double album An Evening with John Denver
B Some later audio cassette releases of the album excluded these songs.

Personnel

  • John Denver — 6 & 12-string acoustic guitars, vocals
  • Buddy Collette — clarinet
  • Jim Gordon — drums, percussion
  • Hal Blaine — drums, percussion
  • Jim Connor — banjo, harmonica, vocals
  • Julie Connor — vocals
  • Glen D. Hardin — piano
  • Lee Holdridge — orchestral arrangements
  • David Jackson — bass
  • Richard Kniss — bass
  • John Sommers — banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, backing vocals
  • Steve Weisberg — acoustic guitar, dulcimer, dobro, backing vocals, arranger
  • Don Wardell — Executive Producer
  • Uncredited - piano, harmonica and organ on "Back Home Again", piano on "The Music is You"
  • Songs

    1Back Home Again4:42
    2On the Road2:33
    3Matthew3:43

    References

    Back Home Again (John Denver album) Wikipedia