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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My absolute favorite John Denver album., August 11, 2000
By A Customer
I have been a huge supporter of John Denver and his music since I was 10 years old (28 years ago). I own all but his very first album, and "Spirit" is by far my absolute favorite. Someone else wrote about the last track, "The Wings That Fly Us Home", and I agree wholeheartedly. The whole album is good, very good, but this one song is exceptional. Words cannot describe the feeling I get whenever I hear it. I can almost feel my own spirit wanting to take flight with the music. When music brings tears to your eyes, that says something and this one did it long before John died. This is John Denver at his best.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great album, wish John could see this., September 9, 1998
By A Customer
The Spirit CD is one of the best, and by adding the songs from Whose Garden Was This only makes it better. The 12th cut The Wings That Fly Us Home brings back memories as it was played at John's funeral. Joe Henry wrote the words and is a beautiful piece of music. The songs from Whose Garden Was This, an early 70s album, hold very true to what John believed and lived for. This is a very FAR OUT CD.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Far Out!, August 1, 2003
This is a wonderful example of John Denver's wonderful talents as a singer and a songwriter, one produced at the height of his popularity in the mid-1970s. Here we see some of the monster hits that propelled him into amazing popularity and superstardom in the early 1970s. In his heyday no one was outselling his albums or out-booking John for concert appearances, and considering the incredible talents on the scene at the time, that is a pretty good indication of just how popular he was, and just how universal John Denver's appeal was. No one else sang of the wide-open possibilities and seemingly limitless prospects for a good life awaiting those who would free themselves from the bonds that confined them and just dare to soar along with him in the wild open spaces. All the tracks here are terrific, from "Come And Let Me Look Into Your Eyes", a lovely and sentimental love song, one often performed in live performances, to "Sad Song', another monster hit he became so famous for. His paeans to appreciating the beauties of nature and the natural life were modeled after a much earlier song included in this re-issue of the album, a lovely work called "Whose Garden Was This?". Denver more than any of his contemporaries actively caught the public's imagination regarding the wonders of the natural environment, and in a time when environmental concerns were splashed all over the headlines and the evening news, John's vision of popular concern for and stewardship of the natural world was immensely important. This album represents a wonderful example of the amazing talents of John, made even as he continued to thrill a whole generation with his own perspective of a meaningful life lived in the natural splendor of nature. I know you will enjoy this as well as all of his others. Far out!
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