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Listen to J Mascis and Sharon Van Etten cover John Denver’s “Prisoners”
John Denver visits Amherst, MA.
Listen to My Morning Jacket’s cover of John Denver’s “Leaving On A Jet Plane”
Off the forthcoming record, The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver
My Morning Jacket, Ed Sharpe, Sharon Van Etten contribute to John Denver tribute album
J Mascis, Kathleen Edwards, and Josh Ritter, too.
No Destination: Country Roads
I never loved living in West Virginia.
Even growing up in Huntington, home of Marshall University and a decent hub of culture with such novelties as a modest annual international film festival and a gay bar, I felt isolated from the offerings of the wider world. Not realizing what a walking cliché I was, I reveled in hating my small town and yearned to live someplace worldly, like New York City or Haight-Ashbury in the ‘60s. My father’s commitment to his home state, and his frustration and wounded feelings over my disdain for the Mountain State didn’t hurt either. There’s a picture I remember from when I was about three: my dad and I posing in front of a tent in Cranberry Glades, where he loved to camp. And he looked so happy. Little did he know that, years down the road, I’d start to prefer hanging out with my friends on the weekend to hiking, or start to think his music, which I’d once loved wiggling to, was terrible. By the time I graduated high school, being too cool for West Virginia had become a linchpin of my identity, and being a monster to my dad was a favorite pastime.
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