Poems, Prayers & Promises

by John Denver

Poems, Prayers & Promises cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:52
  • Community rating: 3.38/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a major commercial breakthrough, 'Poems, Prayers & Promises' introduced a wide audience to the artist's gentle, pastoral songwriting. The tracklist includes several career-defining anthems that championed an acoustic, rural aesthetic amidst the early 1970s pop landscape.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, melodic, political, war

Tracklist

  1. Poems, Prayers and Promises (4:08)
  2. Let It Be (3:41)
  3. My Sweet Lady (4:27)
  4. Wooden Indian (1:41)
  5. Junk (1:46)
  6. Gospel Changes (3:29)
  7. Take Me Home, Country Roads - Original Version (3:13)
  8. I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado (2:10)
  9. Sunshine On My Shoulders (5:16)
  10. Around and Around (2:21)
  11. Fire and Rain (3:47)
  12. The Box (2:47)

Credits

  • John Denver - primary artist, vocals, guitar, written-by
  • Eric Weissberg - banjo, pedal steel guitar
  • Dick Kniss - bass, written-by
  • Gary Chester - drums
  • Mike Taylor - guitar, written-by [uncredited]
  • Frank Owens - piano
  • Bill Danoff - vocals, written-by
  • Taffy Nivert - vocals, written-by

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