Poems Prayers & Promises/Let It Be/My Sweet Lady/Wooden Indian/Junk/Gospel Changes/Take Me Home Country Roads/I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado/Sunshine On My Shoulders/Around & Around/Fire & Rain/ The Box
Poems Prayers & Promises was the breakthrough album for folk-rock singer songwriter John Denver. He would remain one of the top selling artists for the rest of the decade. (US:15 UK:19)
“This album like all his other releases that I've heard is filled with beautiful natureinspired country/folk-pop with a few covers that he does really well.”
“Denver returns to a purely acoustic singer-songwriter approach on this album. It also contains the anthemic Take Me Home, Country Roads, the song most closely associated with him nowadays, but it's actually out of the step with the other material chosen for this record.”
“For the most part Poems, Prayers & Promises is characterised by laid back songs like My Sweet Lady, Sunshine On My Shoulders and the title track. It's all a little saccharine for my liking. I can enjoy John Denver when there's a little edge to the material or when he embraces subject matters that are a touch darker.”
“Denver's original songs, whether solo or accompanied by group arrangements, reflect a generational idealism in song, and may be seen as inspiration for the outdoor lifestyle and conservation movements. The pacifist outlook was also represented on this album in a rather unusual fashion with the spoken word, The Box, a powerful anti-war poem that is all too applicable in today's times.”
“This isn't so much sweet as wistful, and has held up well over the years. It has a couple of Denver's well-known tunes on it but what I find more moving are the Beatles covers. Let It Be serves up more pathos than the somewhat overwrought original and Junk is downright moving in its simplicity.”
“With the release of this album, John Denver delivered the songs that would soon propel him into superstardom. All the elements he then used to achieve such singular fame and fortune as a best selling singer are here. Denver almost single-handedly began the outdoor backpacking, hiking, and orienteering movements by popularizing the idea of nature as an important element in modern life.”
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