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John Denver - Poems, Prayers, and Promises (1971) Vinyl LP • Take Me Home

Condition is Used

Shipped with USPS Media Mail

CONDITION DETAILS

Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; light-scuffing (front/back); surface impressions on front. Noticeable shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of some use.

ABOUT THE RECORD

Poems, Prayers and Promises is considered to be John Denver's "breakout album", which helped make him a music star. The album features the song Take Me Home, Country Roads, which would become Denver's signature song and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Take Me Home, Country Roads received an enthusiastic response from West Virginians. The song is the theme song of West Virginia University and has been performed at every home football pre-game show since 1972. In 1980, Denver performed the song during pre-game festivities to a sold-out crowd of Mountaineer fans. The popularity of the song has inspired resolutions in the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate to change the state song of West Virginia to Take Me Home, Country Roads. So far, such resolutions have not carried. Sunshine on My Shoulders was originally released as an album track and later, as a single in 1973. It went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1974.

Portions of our "About the Record" section are taken from information gathered from Wikipedia and AllMusic.

Track Listing

Poems, Prayers And Promises

Let It Be

My Sweet Lady

Wooden Indian

Junk

Gospel Changes

Take Me Home, Country Roads

I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado

Sunshine On My Shoulders

Around And Around

Fire And Rain

The Box