“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 ...
Despite its deep connection to West Virginia, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was actually inspired by a backroad in Maryland. The song came together with John Denver in a late-night writing session and ...
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 ...