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Label: RCA
Release Date: 1998-08-25
List Price: $13.98
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My first ever favorite album (5 stars)
Every serious music fan has an album that is special to them no matter how long ago it was put out or purchased. The artist/band may have long passed the cool stage but that doesn't matter where this album is concerned. For me, this is that album. I was born in the mid 70's at the height of John's popularity and so some of my earliest memories are of me listening to this tape on a portable tape player. We didn't have the money for anything else but suited me fine. I took it all over the house with me and listened to it over and over again. I didn't know my shapes or colors that well but I knew every word to every song on this tape.
Highlights include: Downhill Stuff which is John's venture into rock and roll and has a blues feel to it. It just rocks all the way through. Sweet Melinda is a more melodic offering more to what John's fans were used to. John's cover of Johnny B. Goode is fantastic and in my opinion better than the original. Life is So Good is also a song close to what John's fans were used to in that it was in line with the tempo and thankful attitude that came through many of his songs.
Overall this album has been a love/hate to John's hard core fans. I personally think this is his best album and highly suggest it to anyone. |  | | | Not all that great (3 stars)
I don't agree that this is a great album. It is inconsistent, not including the added tracks from "Whose Garden Was This". There are some good tracks on this album but to sit and listen to the whole album made me restless. Not one of John's best. | | | | Surprisingly Versatile and Fun, Overlooked Gem (4 stars)
This is the last album that received any noticable degree of support (I remember it being advertised on weekday morning network television during the time I suffered a death in the family), and, when it disappointed his label, Denver faded away almost as fast and thoroughly as another early & mid 70s hitmaker, Gordon Lightfoot.
"Berkeley Woman" has a surprising edge to it, sounds great even today, very untypical Denver fare. "The Garden Song" was much more in tune with the Capricorn Denver's tree-hugger style and a very nice song. Even the songs I did not like here seemed to stretch Denver's mostly self-inflicted artistic boundaries. | | | | surprisingly pleased (5 stars)
I purchased this particular CD and the "Spirit" CD to have access to the much berated "Whose Garden Was This" - sides one and two appearing as bonus tracks on each CD respectively. "JD", however, is a surprise to one who has not heard this album since its release in the late 1970s. The music is crisp, clear, and John Denver is at his best. Listen to Downhill Stuff, Your'e So Beautiful, What's On Your Mind, and the esoteric Denver compositions of Joseph and Joe and Songs Of. As a native West Virginian, I thought Country Roads was Denver's best, I love that song, but love the "JD" album more.Willie | | | | Who'd of thunk it! (5 stars)
John Denver doing rock and roll! This is not your typical Denver collection. It's JD breaking the rules. And it's wonderful. I defy anyone to listen to his rollicking rendition of "Johnny B. Goode" and NOT get on your feet and move. And don't let the opening strains of Downhill Stuff fool you into thinking this is a sleepy little country song, nope. Just as you're about to hit that 'skip' button you hear a joyous 1 2 3 4....and a piano riff straight from Jerry Lee..and it rocks! | | | |
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