John Stewart: East of Denver

The late singer-songwriter John Stewart performs a song from his last CD, "The Day The River Sang" (2006). In his forty year solo career (following six years with the Kingston Trio), Stewart wrote pop classics like "Daydream Believer," "Runaway Train," and "Gold," and released more than three dozen of his own albums, making him the most prolific - and in the judgment of many, the best - composer of songs in the Americana genre since Woody Guthrie.

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[RoadWolf98]

Thanks Nef - I'm passing this along to the JS message board/mailing list Bloodlines. They'll love it.

[Nefarioso]

John used to perform this song at the Ice House in Pasadena, California back in 1971. I even got a lousy cassette tape version of it there. Over the years, I wondered why he never recorded it. Well, a few years back., I sent him a cassette of it and requested he record it. Glad that he was able to.

He changed the final verse on the album version from:

Let me stay in the land I love,

Fits me like a buckskin glove

And the Western sky it shines above.

Let me stay in the land I love.