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"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
This Is My West Virginia: Iris Bell: 1963 One of the four West Virginia state songs. [12] [13] West Virginia Fantasies: Chicago: 1970 West Virginia Gals: Al Hopkins: 1928 West Virginia Mine: Jackie DeShannon: 1970 West Virginia, My Home: Hazel Dickens: 1980 West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home: Julian G. Hearne, Jr. 1947 One of the four West ...
West Virginia Official state song: "The West Virginia Hills" Henry Everett Engle: Ellen Ruddell King: 1963 [1] [79] Official state song: "This Is My West Virginia" Iris Bell: Iris Bell: 1963 [1] [79] Official state song: "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home" Julian G. Hearne, Jr. Julian G. Hearne, Jr. 1963 [1] [79] Official state song: "Take Me ...
Apr. 20—The redbuds are in full bloom at the Core Arboretum. And so was the delighted laugh this past Thursday afternoon of a certain director of the old-growth expanse off Patteson Drive—as ...
"The West Virginia Hills" was written in 1879 as a poem inspired by the scenery surrounding the Glenville area and put to music in 1885 by Henry Everett Engle. [1] The song was made one of West Virginia's state songs on February 3, 1961.
The song has become extremely popular since its inclusion on Old Crow Medicine Show's major label debut, O.C.M.S. in 2004; it was released as its lead single two weeks prior to the album's release, although the song also appeared in an earlier form on the now out-of-print EP Troubles Up and Down the Road in 2001.
Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States.Traditional Appalachian music is derived from various influences, including the ballads, hymns and fiddle music of the British Isles (particularly Scotland), and to a lesser extent the music of Continental Europe.
Still, she's continued to give audiences what they want. "It never gave me a complex," she said. "I have fun. As long as people enjoy it, I don't care.