This week in 1974 – a recording that scored a big hit on both pop and country music charts was a song written about the writer's college sweetheart – whom he married in 1967 and divorced in 1983. The ...

A look back at the Minnesotan who inspired more than one of his songs and how the state's cold spring inspired another. John Denver is associated with the Rocky Mountains, but he married a Minnesota ...

In 1974, John Denver was already a successful singer-songwriter. Adored for his signature wire-rimmed glasses, boyish grin, and crystal-clear tenor, Denver had made waves with hits like “Take Me Home, ...

How about a little bit of folk rock goodness from Gordon Lightfoot? “Sundown” was released in March of 1974 and served as the title track to Lightfoot’s album released that year. “Sundown” was a quick ...

For all of John Denver’s claims to fame — he was one of the most popular singer-songwriters of the 1970s, as well as an actor, an activist, and even a skiing commentator — he said it was fatherhood ...