An Evening with John Denver

Infobox Album
Name = An Evening With John Denver
Type = live
Artist = John Denver


Released = February 1975
Recorded = August-September 1974
Genre =
Length =
Label = RCA Records
Producer = Milton Okun
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpfpxq8aldje link]
Last album = "Back Home Again"
(1974)
This album = "An Evening with John Denver"
(1975)
Next album = "Windsong"
(1975)

"An Evening With John Denver" is a live album of music performed by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was recorded at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California in August and September 1974. He is backed by an orchestra conducted by Lee Holdridge.

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Denver; except where indicated

ide one

# "The Music Is You" - 1:02
# "Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)" - 3:40
# "Mother Nature's Son" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 4:37
# "Summer" (Denver, James Taylor, Dick Kniss) - 3:02
# "Today" (Randy Sparks) - 4:40
# "Saturday Night In Toledo Ohio" (Randy Sparks) - 4:08

ide two

# "Matthew" - 3:42
# "Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights in Canada)" - 3:13
# "Sweet Surrender" - 5:02
# "Grandma’s Feather Bed" (Jim Connor) - 2:37
# "Annie's Song" - 3:32
# "The Eagle And The Hawk" (Denver, Mike Taylor) - 2:22

ide three

# "My Sweet Lady" - 4:55
# "Annie’s Other Song" - 3:05
# "Boy from the Country" (Michael Martin Murphey) - 5:00
# "Rhymes and Reasons" - 3:17
# "Forest Lawn" (Tom Paxton) - 2:58

ide four

# "Pickin’ the Sun Down" (John Sommers, Steve Weisberg) - 2:17
# "Thank God I’m a Country Boy" (John Sommers) - 3:40
# "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Denver, Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert) - 3:17
# "Poems, Prayers and Promises" - 4:40
# "Rocky Mountain High" (Denver, Mike Taylor) - 5:04
# "This Old Guitar" - 4:47

Personnel

John Denver - guitar, vocals
*Steve Weisberg - electric guitar, steel pedal, dobro
*Dick Kniss - bass
*John Sommers - rhythm guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin
*Herb Lovelle - drums
*Hal Blaine - percussion
*Owen Castleman - vocals on "Boy from the Country"

*THE ORCHESTRA: Murray Adler, Samuel Boghossian, Denyse Buffum, Gene Cipriano, Buddy Collette, Vincent DeRosa, David Duke, Jesse Ehrlich, Ron Folsom, Allan Harshman, Richard Kaufman, Raymond Kelley, Milton Kestenbaum, William Kurasch, Joy Lyle, Richard Maximoff, Peter Mercurio, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Jay Rosen, Ralph Schaeffer, David Schwartz, Sidney Sharp, Harry Shlutz, Mari Tsumura, David Turner, Tibor Zelig

Orchestra conducted by Lee Holdridge