Back Home Again [Original recording remastered]

John Denver | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 7, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B0009I7O16
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,842 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

John reached #1 with this 1974 LP. His big hits Annie's Song; Back Home Again; Thank God I'm a Country Boy , and Sweet Surrender are here; includes bonus alternate takes of Matthew and This Old Guitar !

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 70's album!, June 25, 2005

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Allen Chapman (STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Back Home Again (Audio CD)

This is one of those albums that we had on 8-track as a little kid. It seemed that most people had a John Denver 8-track back in the 70's! Every track on this album is a classic, the remastering is pristine. The hits from the album were "Annie's Song" (most often thought of as "You Fill Up My Senses"), "Grandma's Feather Bed", "Back Home Again" and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy". My favorite tracks though are "Matthew", "Eclipse" and "This Old Guitar". Both "Matthew" and "This Old Guitar" are added on as bonus tracks in alternate versions. The alternate of "Guitar" sounds more intimate, "Matthew" has a fuller sound. A classic album from the 70's and for me anyway it brings back fond childhood memories.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best original John Denver album, October 27, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Back Home Again (Audio CD)

John never liked to be typecast but he was a country boy at heart and it was never more obvious than in this album. Whatever you may think of his other albums, this album is country. It was his best-selling album and it contains his best-selling single, Annie's song, and my favorite song of his, Back home again, together with many other classic songs.

Annie's song was a number one pop hit in both Britain and America. John had many pop hits in America but he never had another solo hit in the UK and only had one other (minor) UK hit via a duet recording (with Placido Domingo) of Perhaps love.

The ultimate homecoming song, Back home again is one of my all-time favorite songs. Several country singers covered it although those covers are now mostly hard to find. I particularly like Dottie West's version though the chances of that ever becoming available on CD seem remote. But John's own version is outstanding and was a huge American pop hit.

A live version of Thank God I'm a country boy provided John with another American number one pop hit, but it is the original studio version that you will find on this album. Grandma's feather bed is a fun song about childhood memories. Other outstanding songs include Sweet surrender, Eclipse and This old guitar, but every song here is brilliant.

This new versions makes the album sound better than ever. The two bonus tracks are alternate versions of songs that were already part of the main album. While they were doing this, they could have included the single version of Thank God I'm a country boy - they didn't, but that's a minor quibble.

This was one of the first albums I ever bought when I started collecting records on vinyl and it remains one of my favorite albums of all time.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I could give it more than 5 stars, February 24, 2006

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Nancy (Livonia, MI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Back Home Again (Audio CD)

I grew up listening to this album on our 8 track player back in the 70's. It is just as wonderful as I remember it, minus the awful 8 track changing "ker-chunks" in the middle of songs . Brings back happy memories of my childhood. I own many John Denver CDs and this one is my absolute favorite and I believe is his very best. No John Denver fan will be disappointed with this one.