The first line of John Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" calls West Virginia "Almost Heaven," and when you're up in the mountains, that description can feel pretty accurate. But these ...

“Take me home, Clopper Road” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but the Gaithersburg, Maryland, road was the inspiration behind the song that gave John Denver his first platinum single. Later this ...

It’s been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists around the world. It’s been written about for decades. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was John Denver’s first big hit and became both his ...

“I’m a songwriter. I was looking for words,” songwriter Bill Danoff once said about writing “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. “The words that I loved in that song were Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah ...

Country star Johnny Cash was known for a number of hit songs. One of those tracks was his 1996 recording of “I’ve Been Everywhere”. It was easy to picture the outlaw artist riding the rails going from ...

It’s been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists around the world. It’s been written about for decades. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was John Denver’s first big hit and became both his ...