Thank God I'm a Country Boy

 John Denver - Thank God I'm a Country Boy (22 March 1977) - Thank God I'm a Country Boy

John Denver, (born December 31, 1943, Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.—died October 12, 1997, Monterey Bay, California, U.S.), American singer and songwriter who was known for his wholesome, sentimental music that extolled nature’s and life’s simple pleasures. He was one of the most popular performers of the 1970s.

Denver began playing folk songs on the 1910 Gibson guitar that his grandmother gave him when he was 12. In the mid-1960s he moved to Los Angeles, where he adopted the name of the capital of Colorado, a state whose natural beauty he especially loved, and began performing with the Chad Mitchell Trio. One of his early songwriting efforts, "Leaving on a Jet Plane," was recorded in 1967 by Peter, Paul and Mary and became a number one hit in 1969. His first solo album, Rhymes and Reasons, was released that same year. In 1971 he recorded the million-selling single "Take Me Home, Country Roads," and that was followed by the evocative "Rocky Mountain High" (1972) and the smash hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders" (1974).