With the release of this album in 1971, 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 the best-selling and most popular singer of the 1970s is here, from his fabulously successful first hit Take Me Home, Country Roads to the under- appreciated counterculture anthem Poems, Prayers And Promises. 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, and more than a few of the young babyboomers, like John, were more than ready for the kind of unconventional intimacy with nature he sang about so effortlessly and so elegantly. From Sunshine On My Shoulders to I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado, Denver's song soar in their description of the beauties of the natural life and in being close to the great wide-open'. Denver also does an unusually good cover of Let It Be by Lennon and McC