He didn’t have movie star looks like Burt Reynolds or the rock n’ roll flamboyance of Elton John. Instead, he wore granny glasses and sported a dutch boy haircut. The great John Denver… In spite of his “golly gosh darn” image, he became a bonafide star performing songs that America could relate to. Especially today’s 70s classic Rocky Mountian High… the song made him a 70s legend. It’s a song that everyone loves even if some won’t admit it… It was actually banned during its heyday because radio programmers thought it was about Smoking Dope. The story of a song about nature that is somehow more beautiful than nature...NEXT on Professor of Rock.”

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So it’s time for another edition of our series The New Standards. This show takes an in-depth look into songs that transcend genre, decade, and fads - songs that are monumental touchstones in our culture and society.

So I was at a Sam Hunt concert with my wife recently, and near the end of his set, he broke into the chorus of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads. There were some 20,000 people singing along to every word at the top of their lungs. And I remember thinking...“This is a great moment that would make John Denver very proud.” Now let’s get this out of the way up front. I love John Denver… I don’t care what anyone says. He is one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his time and had one of the purest voices ever. Most of the people that rip on his music secretly adore it…

I thought a lot about John Denver after that concert, and how his music has survived him. As many of you in the POR community know, one of the first things I ask an artist that I am conversing with is “what was the moment that kicked open the door to your mind, and made you want to pursue music? I love to hear about those pivotal moments that changed their lives forever.

For John Denver, perhaps his most pivotal life-changing moment happened when he visited Colorado for the first time, and fell in love with the magic of the Rocky Mountains: Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. grew up in a military family. He was what they call a “military brat.” His father, Lt. Colonel Henry Deutschendorf Senior, was an officer in the U.S. Air Force that moved his family from base to base- from Roswell, New Mexico, where young Henry was born, to Tucson, Montgomery, Alabama, and Forth Worth, Texas.

Henry Jr began his journey as a musician at age 11 when his grandmother gave him an acoustic guitar. He developed into a solid player and sang in local clubs, and in college while attending Texas Tech in Lubbock. Henry’s friend, Randy Sparks, who was the founder of the New Christy Minstrels convinced him that he needed to change his stage name because Deutschendorf would be difficult to fit on a marquee.