John Denver – Whose Garden Was This (1970/2017) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Perhaps John Denver’s worst-selling album, Whose Garden Was This, is largely a record of cover songs, starting with the Tom Paxton-penned environmentalist anthem that is the title track, and including Denver versions of such songs as the Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles,” The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” and “Golden Slumbers.” Denver’s own contributions included the awkward “I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock).” Though Denver tried in a sleeve note to weave all this into a theme, something about “all the things that change as we grow older.” In fact, Whose Garden Was This was an expendable collection of second-rate Denver songs and first-rate songs done better by others. Not surprisingly, it missed the charts. ~ William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:
1. Tremble If You Must (Remastered) 01:24
2. Sail Away Home (Remastered) 04:38
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Remastered) 03:58
4. Mr. Bojangles (Remastered) 04:39
5. I Wish I Could Have Been There (Woodstock) (Remastered) 02:31
6. Whose Garden Was This (Remastered) 03:48
7. The Game Is Over (Remastered) 02:27
8. Eleanor Rigby (Remastered) 03:12
9. Old Folks (Remastered) 05:01
10. Golden Slumbers / Sweet Sweet Life / Tremble If You Must (Version II) (Remastered) 04:32
11. Jingle Bells (Remastered) 01:06

Personnel:
John Denver, guitar, vocals
Mike Taylor, guitar
Paul Griffin, keyboards
David Spinozza, guitar
Russ Savakus, bass
Teddy Sommer, drums

Recorded at RCA’s Studio’s A & C, New York City
Engineered by John Crotty, Ray Hall
Produced by Milton Okun

Digitally remastered

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