Take Me Home, Country Roads ............. one to listen to

Now I am a great fan of the Radio 4 series Soul Music, which rage from iconic folk, soul, to pop songs.

On the Highway Canada, 2011

Last week it featured The Parting Cup, which was written in Scotland and has criss crossed the Irish Sea becoming a popular song among Celtic peoples around the world.*

And this week its "Take Me Home".**

"Written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert with and for their friend John Denver, the song went on to be covered by Ray Charles, Toots and the Maytals, Olivia Newton John and many more. 

A song about the longing for home and the desire to be back with the people you love, 'Country Roads' has become one of the official state songs of West Virginia but it also speaks to people from around the world and across political divides. 

Lonely farmsteads, 2011

It's a song about togetherness, belonging, homesickness, the immigrant experience and the hold that the landscape of your 'home place' can have on you.

Featuring contributions from Bill Danoff, Sarah Morris, Jason Jeong, Ngozi Fulani, Lloyd Bradley and Alison Wells. And from Molly Sarlé, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Meath of the band Mountain Man.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio in Bristol"

Location; West Virginia, The Canadian heartlands

Pictures; The Canadian heartlands, 2011, Lori Oschefski

*The Parting Cup, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y6n2

**Take Me Home, Country Roads, Soul Music, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm