John Denver chronicles the experiences that shaped his life, while unraveling the rich, inner journey of a shy Midwestern boy whose uneasy partnership with fame has been one of the defining forces of his first fifty years.

An adaptation of one of the late country singer-songwriter's best-loved songs celebrates the wonderful, pure things in life--sunshine, friendship and simple joy. Simultaneous.

(Strum It (Guitar)). Strum the chords (and sing along!) with 20 of John Denver's top hits: Annie's Song * Autograph * Back Home Again * Calypso * Fly Away * Follow Me * Goodbye Again * I'm Sorry * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Looking for Space * My Sweet Lady * Poems, Prayers and Promises * Rocky Mountain High * Shanghai Breezes * Sunshine on My Shoulders * Take Me Home, Country Roads * Thank God I'm a Country Boy * and more. Each song is in its original key with chords, strum patterns, melody and lyrics.

A picture book adaptation of John Denver's song that was written as a love song and has also been interpreted as a song expressing a parent's love for a child. Includes facts about Denver and about the song.

He was born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., on December 31, 1943, in Roswell, New Mexico. The general public knows him better as John Denver, trained architect, international performer, a man who sings about his experiences of living, and, in doing so, reveals his spirituality. On October 12, 1997, at the age of fifty-three, Denver died in Monterey Bay, California, in a solo airplane crash. Through the lyrics of his songs on more than sixty albums, Denver reveals his spirituality, that invisible force that motivates or inspires his personal spirit and gives insight and meaning to what he did and why he did it. This book is designed to guide the reader through an analysis of John Denver's spirituality, as it is gleaned and categorized according to major and minor themes that emerge from the lyrics of his songs. The reader is invited to experience Denver's spirituality through a reflection section at the end of each chapter.

(Easy Guitar). This superb collection of 42 great Denver songs made easy for guitar includes: Annie's Song * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Take Me Home, Country Roads * plus performance notes, a biography, and Denver's thoughts on the songs.

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have