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.
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]