Wild Montana Skies Explained

Wild Montana Skies
Type:single
Artist:John Denver and Emmylou Harris
Album:It's About Time
Released:November 1983
Genre:Country
Length:4:02
Label:RCA
Producer:John Denver, Barney Wyckoff

"Wild Montana Skies" is a single from John Denver's 1983 album It's About Time, featuring vocals from Emmylou Harris. The song is often highly rated as a Western and Montana-themed song.

Reception

In 2010, the Western Writers of America rated "Wild Montana Skies" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1] In 2013, "Wild Montana Skies" won a poll as the "best song about Montana" run by the Great Falls Tribune.[2]

Reception was not entirely positive; the New York Daily News rated the song as the second-worst song with the word "wild" in the title, second only to "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphey.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Top 100 Western Songs . Western Writers of America . 2010 . Western Writers of America . American Cowboy . https://web.archive.org/web/20111130011926/http://www.americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs. November 30, 2011 . dead .
  2. News: Inbody . Kristen . Song survey strikes chord with readers . 30 August 2021 . . January 20, 2013.
  3. News: Unchained melodies . August 30, 2021 . . Tribune Publishing . August 19, 1990.