John Denver (5/4/1980)

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Artist(s): John Denver
Date: 4 May 1980
Tickets: $8.50/$10.00/$12.50 (reserved seating)
Attendance: 7,200 (advance sellout)
Notes: Denver’s second appearance (third sold-out performance) at Wings Stadium. Center stage in the round. Band members: Hal Blaine (drums), James Burton (guitar), Glenn D. Hardin (piano), Jim Horn (sax/flute), Herb Pedersen (guitar).
Setlist*: Intro (The Music Is You), Starwood in Aspen, Mother Nature’s Son, Take Me Home, Country Roads, Follow Me, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Singing Skies and Dancing Waters, Sweet Surrender, I’d Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady’s Chains), Leaving on a Jet Plane / Goodbye Again, Wrangell Mountain Song, Song for the Life, Matthew, Fly Away, Johnny B. Goode, Dancing With the Mountains, My Sweet Lady, I’m Sorry, Garden Song, Thank God I’m a Country Boy, Poems, Prayers and Promises, Ballad of the St. Anne’s Reel, You Say That the Battle Is Over, Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio, Annie’s Song, High Sierra, Grandma’s Feather Bed, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain High, The Eagle and the Hawk, Calypso, Sunshine on My Shoulders

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other performances around the same time (Indianapolis, IN).

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