Wild Montana Skies

1983 single by John Denver and Emmylou Harris

"Wild Montana Skies"

Single by John Denver and Emmylou Harris
from the album  It's About Time
Released| November 1983
Genre| Country
Length| 4:02
Label| RCA
Producer(s)| 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.

## Reception[edit]

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]

## Chart performance[edit]

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## References[edit]

1. ^ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011.
2. ^ Inbody, Kristen (January 20, 2013). "Song survey strikes chord with readers". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
3. ^ "Unchained melodies". New York Daily News. Tribune Publishing. August 19, 1990. Retrieved August 30, 2021.

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Emmylou Harris singles

* Albums
* Singles

Pieces of the Sky|

* "If I Could Only Win Your Love"

Elite Hotel|

* "Together Again"
* "One of These Days"
* "Sweet Dreams"

Luxury Liner|

* "You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)"
* "Making Believe"

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town|

* "To Daddy"
* "Two More Bottles of Wine"
* "Easy From Now On"

Blue Kentucky Girl|

* "Save the Last Dance for Me"
* "Blue Kentucky Girl"
* "Beneath Still Waters"

Roses in the Snow|

* "Wayfaring Stranger"
* "The Boxer"

Evangeline|

* "Mister Sandman"
* "I Don't Have to Crawl"

Cimarron|

* "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams)
* "Tennessee Rose"
* "Born to Run"

Last Date|

* "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date"
* "I'm Movin' On"
* "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"

White Shoes|

* "Drivin' Wheel"
* "In My Dreams"
* "Pledging My Love"

Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris|

* "Someone Like You"

The Ballad of Sally Rose|

* "White Line"

Thirteen|

* "Today I Started Loving You Again"

Trio
(with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)|

* "To Know Him Is to Love Him"
* "Telling Me Lies"
* "Those Memories of You"
* "Wildflowers"

Bluebird|

* "Heartbreak Hill"
* "Heaven Only Knows"
* "I Still Miss Someone"

Brand New Dance|

* "Never Be Anyone Else But You"

Trio II
(with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)|

* "After the Gold Rush"

All the Roadrunning
(with Mark Knopfler)|

* "All the Roadrunning"

Singles as a featured artist|

* "Wild Montana Skies" (featured with John Denver)
* "Thing About You" (featured with Southern Pacific)
* "We Believe in Happy Endings" (featured with Earl Thomas Conley)

Other songs|

* "Boulder to Birmingham"
* "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"

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