“Take Me Home, Country Roads,” John Denver’s beloved signature song written along with married songwriting pair Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert back in 1970, remains one of the most blissful country tunes ever sung. And it doesn’t get old.
Every time I hear that first wisp of steel guitar, Denver’s sturdy tenor and mention of his “mountain mama,” I’m smacked with a bittersweet sense of peace. I’m from Alabama, not “West Virginia,” but this song may as well be about traveling along any sliver of southern highway, beelining back to the “place I belong,” because it always imbues me with deep emotions and an appreciation for our region’s natural surroundings. But you don’t need to be Southern to appreciate this classic.
“Take Me Home, Country Roads” has been famously covered by Phil Collins, Ray Charles, Toots and the Maytals and Olivia Newton-John , but, recently, musicians of a different generation have taken a liking to Denver’s musings on the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River. Chicago rockers Whitney recently
with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield for an especially groovy indie-folk version, and last year the Americana trio Mountain Man covered it, in their characteristically stripped-down fashion, for theirIt’s not just popular in indie music, either: Boho fashion brand Free People is currently selling aemblazoned with the song’s title for the decidedly ridiculous price of $78.
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