Denver

Singer/Songwriter John Denver was always an inspiration to me.  I taught myself how to play the guitar with his music and would sing his songs around the campfire with the Girl Scouts.  Both he and Jacques Cousteau would be on my personal Mount Rushmore. John Denver and Jacques Cousteau died on the same day in 1997; John died while flying his experimental aircraft off of the Pacific Coast of California.  He had written his last song a month before, Yellowstone, Coming Home, and it was a tribute to the wolves he saw as a vanishing species on the planet due to habitat encroachment and the negative myths that surrounded their species. Denver, in his 1991 autobiography Take Me Home, described himself as a 'Method'-styled songwriter; "I'm not a natural writer... [my songs] were not songs that flowed from the pen between nine and five.  They were my nature expressed.  They were experiences musically stated.  They were emotions being brought up out of being there and seeing it  And being there and seeing it, you write the song so that you are true to it (242).

In the video below, I chanced across this Norwegian singer, John Adams, who's voice in the very re-incarnation of John Denver's croon.  He sings "Yellowstone, Coming Home" in its entirety.