Back Home Again (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Back Home Again
Type = album
Artist = John Denver


Released = June 1974
Recorded =
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Label = RCA Records
Producer = Milton Okun, Susan Ruskin
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jiftxqr5ld0e link]
Last album = "John Denver's Greatest Hits"
(1973)
This album = "Back Home Again"
(1974)
Next album = "An Evening with John Denver"
(1975)

"Back Home Again" is a 1974 album by singer-songwriter John Denver. The multi-platinum album contained the hit singles "Annie's Song" (#1 pop, #1 adult contemporary), "Back Home Again" (#5 pop, #1 AC, #1 country), and "Sweet Surrender" (#13 pop, #1 AC). In addition, the studio version of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" appears on this album.

Track listing

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

ide one

# "Back Home Again"
# "On The Road" (Carl Franzen)
# "Grandma’s Feather Bed" (Jim Connor)
# "Matthew"
# "Thank God I’m A Country Boy" "(Original studio version, subsequently a US No. 1 hit from the live double album An Evening With John Denver)" (John Sommers)
# "The Music Is You"

ide two

# "Annie's Song"
# "It’s Up To You" (Steve Weisberg)
# "Cool An’ Green An’ Shady" (Denver, Joe Henry)
# "Eclipse"
# "Sweet Surrender"
# "This Old Guitar"

Personnel

John Denver - guitar, vocals
*Buddy Collette - clarinet
*Eric Weissberg - banjo, steel guitar
*Jim Gordon - drums
*Hal Blaine - drums
*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, guitar, mandolin, vocals
*Steve Weisberg - guitar, dulcimer, arranger
*Don Wardell - Executive Producer

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