John Denver (1971) She Won't Let Me Fly Away - LOST 70s GEMS

John Denver's Aerie album opens with a nature based bluegrass tune called Starwood in Aspen and a softened soft rock dragged out version of Buddy Holly's demented Everyday; its hard to like it now as a straightforward love song minus the inherent menace of Holly's original thigh slapping arrangement. Other highlights of Aerie is, the chirpy closing instrumental,Tools, the sweeping Prog ballad The Eagle and the Hawk complete with galloping acoustic guitar and a couple of Bill Danoff tunes.

The first Danoff composition is She Won't Let Me Fly Away is a a badass folk tune with a slow verses and funky turnarounds. The second is Readjustment Blues is about tough sociopolitical times and is a storytelling/analogy soul tune, it's enlivened by the twinkling chimes that enter three quarters of the way in that merge with Denver's good ol boy pipes and incandescent 12 string guitar.
It's an album full of Denver's post hippy spiritual new age folk . and I still the best overall tune is She Won't Let Me Fly Away, not too overwrought or soberas some of the tracks, the just the right level of restraint.