"DENVER ALBUM GOES DIGITAL"  
 NEW YORK
 Billboard Magazine 12/28/2000

     A cult favorite John Denver album from 1980 will be
released on CD for the first time next month. Due Jan. 23 from
RCA, the original 11-track lineup of "Autograph" will be
bolstered with two additional tracks - "Dance Little Jean" and
"On the Wings of An Eagle" - each recorded during the same
sessions that produced the collection. In creating the set,
Denver was joined in the studio by an impressive array of
musicians, including guitarist James Burton (Elvis Presley,
Ricky Nelson, Gram Parsons), drummer Hal Blaine (Presley,
Beach Boys, Steely Dan), and pianist Glen D. Hardin (Johnny
Cash, JJ Cale, Hoyt Axton). "Autograph" peaked at No. 39 on
the Billboard 200 in March 1980, and produced two singles that
hit the Billboard Hot 100 - the title track (No. 52) and
"Dancing With the Mountains" (No. 97). Denver, who was killed
when a private plane he was piloting crashed on October 12,
1997, first found chart success in 1971 with his album "Poems,
Prayers & Promises." The set spawned the hit singles "Take Me
Home, Country Roads" (No. 2) and "Sunshine On My Shoulders,"
his first No. 1.


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