It was around this time after a concert in Minnesota when John Denver met Anne Martell. After various changes, the trio was recognized as “Denver, Boise, and Johnson.” Denver beat 250 other candidates who had also auditioned for the role. The following year he moved to New York and replaced Chad Mitchell in the Chad Mitchell Trio. John Denver from the television special An Evening With John Denver (1975). “Denver” being the capital of his favorite state, Colorado, which has a strong association with the mountains and the outdoors, something he enjoyed singing about. After being advised by Randy Sparks, founder of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels, that his long surname “Deutschendorf” wouldn’t help his career, he changed it to Denver. In 1964, he moved to Los Angeles and began performing at Leadbetter’s night club. By the time he had reached college, he was more than comfortable and able to perform acoustically at local venues. When he was 11-years-old, he received his first guitar as a gift from his grandmother. We moved around a great deal, and I used to go out into the desert or I’d climb up into a tree or I’d be up in the mountains, just anywhere that I could get out in nature.” “When I was a child I felt like I didn’t have a lot of friends. Because of this, he was unable to recognize where his true home was until he discovered nature and the outdoors. Phish’s song about a mountain climb, usually lasts between five and 20 minutes when they play it at a show and is part of a larger Phish mythology/storyline, which I don’t know anything about, but Phish fans can tell you.Click HERE for The Best John Denver Music, Merch & Memorabilia!Īlready an introverted person, the relocating made him never truly comfortable where he was. Is this a mountain song? They’re from Nederland, and there’s a mention of the Great Divide. “Progressive bluegrass,” “jamgrass,” or “hippiegrass,” or bluegrass + Colorado = these guys. Yonder Mountain String Band, “Half Moon Rising” This cover of a Fleet Foxes song put sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg on the map – if you’d heard of them before they recorded it in 2008 and put it on YouTube, you probably lived in their native Sweden. First Aid Kit, “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” (cover) See previous, but no singing, just masterful banjo and guitar work by Mr. Flatt & Scruggs, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” Flatt & Scruggs, “Blue Ridge Cabin Home”Ĭlassic bluegrass from the legendary Earl Scruggs and the equally legendary Lester Flatt: “When I die won’t you bury me on the mountain/Far away near my Blueridge mountain home” LINKġ3. Yes, it’s a John Denver song, and when Toots sings it, he changes “West Virginia” to “West Jamaica,” which is actually the less mountainous part of Jamaica, well, one writer for Rolling Stone said it was like John Denver wrote this song for Toots to sing. Toots and the Maytals, “Country Roads” (cover) The song, and the album it appeared on, The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get, was Walsh’s breakthrough as a solo artist. The lawnmower rolled into his neighbor’s garden and destroyed it. The words to “Rocky Mountain Way” came to Joe Walsh when he was mowing his front yard in Colorado, and he walked away from the running lawnmower to write them down. (one of which is the biggest chunk of exposed rock in Colorado’s South Platte), Harry McClintock’s song is about hobo heaven – the big rock candy mountain.
Harry McClintock, “Big Rock Candy Mountain”Īlthough there are a couple Big Rock Candy Mountains in the U.S. Townes Van Zandt said he loved playing shows in Colorado, because he didn’t have to explain where Raton, New Mexico was (just across the border from Trinidad, on I-25). But because quite useful as a theme song at Dollywood. One of the most recognized Dolly Parton songs of all time, this one was actually not much of a hit for Parton. LINKĪctually about lamenting lost youth, and a club Neil Young used to visit as a teenager.
Not traditional mountain music in any sense, this haunting Fleet Foxes track makes a single reference to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and will make images of wood nymphs appear in your head. LINKįYI, “Rocky Top” is actually not the University of Tennessee’s official fight song, but was adopted by the college’s band in 1972 and might as well be the official fight song in most folks’ minds. Go ahead and attempt to not sing along with her on this track. Loretta Lynn was cool before she was friends with Jack White of the White Stripes. Of course, not everyone loves it, and that’s okay, but there’s not much denying that it’s probably the first to come to a lot of people’s minds when you say “mountain song.” LINKĢ. This song needs no introduction: famous for being famous, famous for its use in a Coors commercial, and famous for being voted Colorado’s second official state song in 2007.
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