Music Concert/DVD Review: 'John Denver: Rocky Mountain High - Live in Japan'
© 2009 Windstar Productions and Eagle Rock Entertainment. Cover photo © 1981, 2009 Stars and Stripes On October 13, 2009, Eagle Rock Entertainment (through its Eagle Vision distribution arm) released John Denver: Rocky Mountain High - Live in Japan, a DVD that presents a performance by singer-songwriter-actor John Denver recorded live at Tokyo's NHK Hall in May of 1981. Featuring a set of 18 songs that were, at the time, among Denver's "greatest hits," this 72-minutes-long presentation captures one of America's greatest performers at the apex of his musical career. It also gives viewers who were born after Denver's all-too-soon passing in 1997 a time machine into the past to see the then-37-year-old superstar charm his mostly-Japanese audience with his natural wit and gentle demeanor as well as with his musical gifts. (Note: The above video is from another Eagle Rock Entertainment concert DVD.) Filmed in 1981, this concert captures John Denver at t...