Late folk-country icon John Denver returns to the top 40 of ... "Lonely Road" concurrently debuts at No. 13 on Hot Country Songs. Denver's enduring original "Take Me Home, Country Roads" has ...

It was written while Denver, an avid skier, was riding a ski lift in Switzerland. He says by the time he had finished the 10 minute ride the song was finished. He and his first wife had just got ...