{"id":18696,"date":"2017-04-21T20:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18696"},"modified":"2017-04-21T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T00:50:49","slug":"taffy-nivert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18696","title":{"rendered":"Taffy Nivert"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the perks of Amazon Prime is Amazon Music, an on demand music service that allows you to download and play music from a smallish library (around two million tracks). Now that I can hear music better, time to give it a listen.<\/p>\n

While listening to “Country Roads” performed by John Denver, I was curious about the background vocals. It turns out this song is a bit odd<\/a>. If you have ever driven through West Virginia and listen to local radio, you would think Country Roads was the National Anthem of West Virginia.<\/p>\n

The unfinished song was being written by Bill and Taffy Danoff, who lived in Maryland and had never been to West Virginia – neither had John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.). Bill Danoff was inspired by listening to WWVA in Wheeling West Virginia, and hoped Johnny Cash would record the song.<\/p>\n

The rest is history<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/vRD839y5L-U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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