Spirit - JOHN DENVER***

Come & Let Me Look In Your Eyes/Eli's Song/Wrangle Mountain Song/Hitchhiker/In The Grand Way/Polka Dots & Moonbeams/It Makes Me Giggle/Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight/Like A Sad Song/San Antonio Rose/ Pegasus/The Wings That Fly Us Home

Country-rock singer songwriter John Denver enjoyed considerable popularity during the early 1970s. By the time of the release of Spirit his appeal was beginning to wane and his future albums would chart much lower. (US:7 UK:9)

“The drippiness of this album in general is saved in the final track with the arrival of the most formative and evocative song of my youth, The Wings That Fly Us Home. Ignore the rest, buy it simply for the power and sheer spiritual depth of this one song which surely provided the vehicle for the rest of this weak album to travel upon.”

“The whole album is very good, but the last 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. When music brings tears to your eyes, that says something and this one did. This is John Denver at his best.”

“This might not be the best John Denver album but it sure has some great songs on it. Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight is one. While I love the whole album some of it is a bit cheesy and there are tracks that I would skip.”

“This is a great example of John Denver's wonderful talents as a singer and 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 was John Denver's appeal. 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.”

“I was hoping for more really beautiful songs by John, but this was disappointing. One of the reasons was that many of the songs were written by other writers, and these were not the best of picks.”