This collection features all his great hits and ends with Denver's biggest songwriting success, ‘Leaving On A Jet Plane’, which now seems inseparable from Peter, Paul & Mary. But to hear Denver sing it, it's not a sunny, hopeful radio single. There's a real weight in his voice, as if he genuinely doesn't “know when I'll be back again,” and the thought of being separated from his love is terrible and crushing. John Denver's got a way of feeling everything that seems almost alien in the cold environs of the 21st century, and – unabashedly earnest and easy listening as it is – The Ultimate Collection is a fine reminder of a gentle voice from another time and place. Includes ‘Annie's Song’, ‘Rocky Mountain High’, ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’, ‘My Sweet Lady’ and many more.
