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Athletics' Josh Reddick inspired by his dad's resilience

...hat on backward with his shaggy hair hanging out. The slugger slapped his knee and tapped his foot while dancing to John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy.""Aside from any baseball stuff, I think it has to do with being comfortable...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/baseball/2012-07-05/athletics-josh-reddick-i
Ramblin' Rhodes: Brotherton, on road with Keen, recalls Augusta roots

...called The National Friendship Fire Engine Company. There were seven of us, and we did secular songs of John Prine, John Denver, Cat Stevens and others like that."Brotherton also got heavily involved with The Augusta Players Youth Theatre and...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-06-19/ramblin-rhodes-brothe
Readers share Christmas traditions

...the year I would find snow that had not melted." A JOHN DENVER CHRISTMAS: Matthew Hodges says his Christmas tradition is simple. "We always listen to John Denver's Christmas album that came out when I was a kid. Our...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-12-24/readers-share-christmas-tradi
Ramblin' Rhodes: Singer-songwriter captures persona of a country song

...country music and country life is all about.Don Williams' I'm Just A Country Boy, Dottie West's Country Girl, John Denver's Thank God I'm A Country Boy and also Country Roads (Take Me Home), Hank Williams Jr.'s A Country Boy Can...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-03-21/ramblin-rhodes-singer
Holiday TV specials answers

...you did. ANSWERS 1. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 2. The Jefferson Starship 3. A Rocky Mountain Christmas starring John Denver 4. Fred Astaire 5. Hermey, although he is sometimes credited as Herbie 6. Jimmy Durante 7. The Year Without A Santa...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/12/07/liv_175753.shtml
Life & style
Sonic Spotlight: Jacob Beltz

...would I even do that to myself. I messed up on almost every song, I think." IF HE COULD PERFORM WITH ANY MUSICIAN: John Denver or Jeff Buckley PRE-SHOW RITUAL: "I take just one shot of a warmer liquor, like a bourbon, and a drink of water...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/03/02/mus_63179.shtml
Music
Six take stage in quest to be best Singer-Songwriter

...in swanky hotels and embassies. Their sound was a brew of "acid type grunge" that mixed elements of the Beatles, John Denver and Elton John; their best song: Yellow Spaceman."Oh, it was terrible," Lifsey said with a laugh.Lifsey is...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/singersongwriter
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Sound Bites: Music Reviews

...many who buy it will do so for its campy appeal. John Denver, "John Denver Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits." (BMG Heritage) It's hard to hear anyone mention John Denver's name and not have a line from one of his songs...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/10/06/mus_430509.shtml
Music
Jersey company finds old-school is cool

...company that relies almost entirely on rap artists to showcase his wares. A bespectacled, graying man who prefers John Denver to Ja Rule, Mr. Capolino began producing retro jerseys in 1985 after finding 12,000 yards of wool flannel, the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/07/06/liv_380407.shtml
Life & style
Almighty Superstar: God's movie career shifts to increasingly screwy comedies

...Oh, God!" in 1977 featured the elderly George Burns as the bespectacled, kindly deity who asks a grocery clerk (John Denver) to be his next prophet. "Humor suggests to me a form of tolerance, and we want to think that if he-she exists...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/05/22/mov_373312.shtml
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