Rhymes & Reasons (John Denver album)

For the Carole King album, see Rhymes & Reasons (Carole King album).

Rhymes & Reasons
Studio album by John Denver
Released	October 14, 1969
Genre	Folk rock
Label	RCA Records
Producer	Milton Okun
John Denver chronology
John Denver Sings (1966)John Denver Sings Rhymes & Reasons (1969) Take Me to Tomorrow (1970)Take Me to Tomorrow

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Rhymes & Reasons is the first commercial album by the American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in 1969 by RCA Records. It was reissued on CD by Legacy Recordings in 2005.

Track listing

Side one

1. "The Love of the Common People" (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)
2. "Catch Another Butterfly" (Mike Williams)
3. "Daydream" (Denver)
4. "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew" (Tom Paxton)
5. "Circus" (Michael Johnson, John Denver, Laurie Kuehn)
6. "When I'm Sixty-Four" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
7. "The Ballad of Richard Nixon" (only 7 seconds of silence)
8. "Rhymes & Reasons" (Denver)

Side two

1. "Yellow Cat" (Steven Fromholz)
2. "Leaving, on a Jet Plane" (Denver)
3. "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart" (Mason Williams)
4. "My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker)
5. "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas)
6. "Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity)" (Pat & Victoria Garvey)

CD bonus tracks

1. "Rusty Green" (Denver)
2. "Take Me To Tomorrow (Early Version)" (Denver)

Personnel

• John Denver - guitar, vocals
• Stan Free - organ
• Eric Weissberg - banjo, steel guitar
• Paul Griffin - keyboards
• Herb Lovelle - drums
• Paul Prestopino - guitar, autoharp, mandolin
• Russ Savakus - bass guitar
• Teddy Sommer - drums
• Marvin Stamm - flute, trumpet
• George Marge - baritone saxophone
• Albert Richmond - French horn