Wild Montana Skies
1983 single by John Denver and Emmylou Harris
"Wild Montana Skies" | |
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Single by John Denver and Emmylou Harris | |
from the album It's About Time | |
Released | November 1983 |
Genre | Country |
Length | 4:02 |
Label | RCA |
Producer(s) | John Denver, Barney Wyckoff |
"Wild Montana Skies" is a single from John Denver's 1983 album It's About Time, featuring vocals from Emmylou Harris. The song is often highly rated as a Western and Montana-themed song.
Reception
In 2010, the Western Writers of America rated "Wild Montana Skies" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1] In 2013, "Wild Montana Skies" won a poll as the "best song about Montana" run by the Great Falls Tribune.[2]
Reception was not entirely positive; the New York Daily News rated the song as the second-worst song with the word "wild" in the title, second only to "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphey.[3]
Chart performance
References
- ^ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011.
- ^ Inbody, Kristen (January 20, 2013). "Song survey strikes chord with readers". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ "Unchained melodies". New York Daily News. Tribune Publishing. August 19, 1990. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
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Emmylou Harris singles
- "Together Again"
- "One of These Days"
- "Sweet Dreams"
- "You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)"
- "Making Believe"
- "Save the Last Dance for Me"
- "Blue Kentucky Girl"
- "Beneath Still Waters"
- "Wayfaring Stranger"
- "The Boxer"
- "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams)
- "Tennessee Rose"
- "Born to Run"
- "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date"
- "I'm Movin' On"
- "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
- "Drivin' Wheel"
- "In My Dreams"
- "Pledging My Love"
- "Someone Like You"
- "White Line"
(with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
- "To Know Him Is to Love Him"
- "Telling Me Lies"
- "Those Memories of You"
- "Wildflowers"
- "Heartbreak Hill"
- "Heaven Only Knows"
- "I Still Miss Someone"
(with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
- "After the Gold Rush"
(with Mark Knopfler)
- "All the Roadrunning"
- "Wild Montana Skies" (featured with John Denver)
- "Thing About You" (featured with Southern Pacific)
- "We Believe in Happy Endings" (featured with Earl Thomas Conley)