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Country Roads: Greatest Hits

Television music, done lowest-common-denominator style, for those who like their entertainment free of annoying tensions, or even a few rough edges. And more than a few do: Greatest Hits has sold close to two million copies and John Denver has replaced the infinitely more talented Jim Croce as the...

2000 RS: Not Rated

Spirit

1976

Windsong

1975

Farewell Andromeda

1973

Rocky Mountain High (RCA)

1972

Poems, Prayers, And Promises

1971

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Through the '70s, country-pop singer-songwriter John Denver was one of the most successful recording artists in the world. Of his albums, 12 are gold and four are platinum, and in the mid-'70s he had a string of gold singles.

Denver was raised in an Air Force family and lived in various Southern and Southwestern towns. In his early teens his grandmother gave him a 1910 Gibson acoustic guitar....

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