Back Home Again (album)

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Back Home Again
Studio album by John Denver
Released	June 1974
Label	RCA Records
Producer	Milton Okun, Susan Ruskin
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Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 Personnel 3 Chart positions

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by John Denver; except where indicated

[edit] Side one

1. "Back Home Again"
2. "On The Road" (Carl Franzen)
3. "Grandma’s Feather Bed" (Jim Connor)
4. "Matthew"
5. "Thank God I’m A Country Boy" (Original studio version, subsequently a US No. 1 hit from the live double album An Evening With John Denver) (John Sommers)
6. "The Music Is You"

[edit] Side two

1. "Annie's Song"
2. "It’s Up To You" (Steve Weisberg)
3. "Cool An’ Green An’ Shady" (Denver, Joe Henry)
4. "Eclipse"
5. "Sweet Surrender"
6. "This Old Guitar"

[edit] Personnel

John Denver - guitar, vocals

• Buddy Collette - clarinet
• Eric Weissberg - banjo, steel guitar
• Jim Gordon - drums
• Hal Blaine - drums
• Jim Connor - banjo, harmonica, vocals
• Julie Connor - vocals
• Glen D. Hardin - piano
• Lee Holdridge - orchestral arrangements
• David Jackson - bass
• Richard Kniss - bass
• John Sommers - banjo, guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Steve Weisberg - guitar, dulcimer, arranger
• Don Wardell - Executive Producer

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Billboard 200	1

Preceded by Caribou by Elton John

Billboard 200 number-one album August 10 - August 16, 1974

Succeeded by 461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton