Rocky Mountain Christmas

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Rocky Mountain Christmas

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  • Artist: John Denver
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1975
  • Total Time: 41:31
  • Type: Christmas, Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

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John Denver's music always had a warm, home-spun quality to it, so it isn't surprising that his 1975 holiday effort, Rocky Mountain Christmas, is a wonderfully low-key and friendly Christmas album. Divided between classic carols and new numbers, such as the fine "Aspenglow" and "Christmas for Cowboys," the album is an appealing, pretty record, perfect for late nights by the fireside. The 1998 CD reissue adds five bonus tracks: "Jingle Bells," "White Christmas," "The Music is You," "Perhaps Love," and "Dreamland Express." ~ Rodney Batdorf, Rovi

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Rocky Mountain Christmas

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Rocky Mountain Christmas
Studio album by John Denver
Released 1975
Recorded 1975
Genre Christmas music
Label RCA
Producer Milton Okun
John Denver chronology
Windsong
(1975)
Rocky Mountain Christmas
(1975)
Spirit
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]

Rocky Mountain Christmas is the tenth album by American singer-songwriter John Denver released in 1975. It was his first Christmas-themed release.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Aspenglow"
  2. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"
  3. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
  4. "Silver Bells"
  5. "Please, Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)"
  6. "Christmas for Cowboys"

Side 2

  1. "Away in a Manger"
  2. "What Child Is This"
  3. "Coventry Carol"
  4. "Oh Holy Night"
  5. "Silent Night, Holy Night"
  6. "A Baby Just Like You"

The current CD reissue of the album includes 2 bonus tracks: "Jingle Bells" (from Denver's 1970 album Whose Garden Was This) and "White Christmas" (an outtake from the 1975 album sessions).

Personnel

  • John Denver - vocals, 6- and 12-string guitars
  • Dick Kniss - bass
  • Lee Holdridge - piano, celeste, harpsichord, and tack piano
  • Steve Weisberg - guitar
  • John Sommers - guitar, mandolin
  • Hal Blaine - drums, percussion
  • Herb Lovelle - drums
  • George Marge - English horn, oboe
  • Harvey Estrin - flute
  • Sid Sharp - violin
  • William Kurasch - violin
  • Samuel Boghossian - viola
  • Jesse Erhlich - cello
  • Pearl Kaufman - piano and harpsichord
  • Chuck Collazzi - guitar

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