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"Thank God I'm a Country Boy", also known as "Country Boy" is a song written by John Martin Sommers and recorded by American singer/songwriter John Denver.
The song was originally included on Denver's 1974 album Back Home Again.
A version recorded live on August 26, 1974 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles was included on his 1975 album An Evening with John Denver.
The live version was released as a single and went to No. 1 on both the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song topped both charts for one week each, first the country chart (on May 31), and the Hot 100 chart a week later.
Back Home Again ( 1974)
ReplyDeleteOne of the most popular American musicians of the 1970s, John Denver straddled the worlds of folk, pop, and country music. Probably not by accident, Denver's greatest popularity as a singer-songwriter came during the first half of the decade. Since most of the material that Denver wrote and recorded—as well as his work as an activist—reflected optimism and traditional mral values, tempered with left-leaning politics and environmentalism, he at once offered relief from the social dissonance of the late Vietnam War era and affirmed the values of the period's back-to-the-land movement. Denver's optimism and his country/folk/pop hybrid style brought aspects of country music to a wide audience and to a nonstereotypically country audience. Generally, John Denver was a writer and performer of individual songs, as opposed to being a concept album artist. However, his 1974 album Back Home Again, which consists of songs written by Denver and members of his musical circle, can be heard as an album-length affirmation of the importance of home and family. Back Home Again contains some of Denver's best work and was named Album of the Year by the Academy of Country Music. The Country Music Association selected the album's title track as the 1975 Song of the Year. A commercially successful crossover album, Back Home Again hit No. 1 on Billboard magazine's country and pop charts, and four of the album's tracks that were issued as singles ("Annie's Song," "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," "Sweet Surrender," and "Back Home Again") were hits on various country, adult contemporary, and pop charts.
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DeleteFidel, Of the 12 songs on Back Home Again, only "On the Road" was not a 1974 piece written by Denver or one of his close musical associates. Written by Denver's friend Carl Franzen, "On the Road" dates from 1970. While it is easy to hear this piece as the least essential track on the album, the familiar focus of the lyrics fits in nicely within the overarching themes of Back Home Again.
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