Different Directions (John Denver album)

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Different Directions
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1991
Genre Folk
Length44:08
Label Windstar
Producer John Denver
John Denver chronology
Christmas, Like a Lullaby
(1990)
Different Directions
(1991)
The Very Best of John Denver
(1994)
Professional ratings
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Different Directions is the 25th studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver released in September 1991. Notably, three of the album's nine songs were written by Joe Camilleri and Nick Smith, and initially recorded by The Black Sorrows on their 1988 album Hold On to Me .

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Potter’s Wheel" (Bill Danoff)
  2. "Ponies" (Jeffrey Hawthornee Bullock)
  3. "The Foxfire Suite, Spring Is Alive, You Are…, Whisper the Wind, Spring Is Alive (Reprise)" (Denver)
  4. "Chained to the Wheel" (Joe Camilleri, Nick Smith)

Side two

  1. "Two Different Directions" (Denver)
  2. "Hold On To Me" (Joe Camilleri, Nick Smith)
  3. "The Chosen Ones" (Joe Camilleri, Nick Smith)
  4. "Amazon (Let This Be a Voice)" (Denver)
  5. "Tenderly Calling" (Jan Camp Garrett)

Personnel

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