With a wide-lens view of John Denver's career, this anthology offers a real sense of what he was about. You get a taste of his ’60s folkie period on "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and hear his down-home side on the back-porch ballad "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and the fiddle-flecked foot-stomper "Thank God I'm a Country Boy." And of course, soaring pop ballads like "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Rocky Mountain High" are here. Nary an inch of Denver's expanse is missed.