- I tried to drop some knowledge about this Saturday when I was visiting with a vendor at the farmer's
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on July 6, 2026, 8:14:41, in reply to "Feature on "Country Roads" song "
market and some customers. The song came up somehow and I was like “OMG guys did you know the people who wrote this became Starland Vocal Band, who did Afternoon Delight?” Everyone was suitably surprised, like whoa no way! But one guy is like “yeah.” Real smug like? Ok suuuuuure buddy. (These were all fellow olds btdubs)  Previous MessageBill Danoff has watched the scene a couple of times now and can’t help but chuckle: a group of American soccer players decades younger than him, standing shoulder to shoulder after World Cup games, singing and swaying to a song he helped write more than a half-century ago, a stadium full of emotional supporters belting back at them from the stands. He’s tickled. “Boy, the song has just been everywhere,” Danoff, who wrote “Take Me Home, Country Roads” with country legend John Denver, said last week from his home in Washington. “I think it’s just terrific. Who would’ve thought, this thing that came out of a dirty, old hippie apartment in Georgetown would be inspiring a soccer team? We sure didn’t.” ... There’s no reason “Country Roads” should belong to this team. U.S. Coach Mauricio Pochettino is Argentine. The team has players born in other countries and raised abroad. No one is from West Virginia. But, in Danoff’s telling, maybe that is also why the song works. “Country Roads” is not especially interested in telling people what kind of country America is supposed to be. It does not wave a flag. It does not thump its chest. It does not traffic in political language or patriotic tropes. It is gentler than that, and perhaps more durable: a song about home, memory and belonging. “It’s not ideological,” Danoff said. “It’s not political. It’s just a nice song to sing.” This should be a public link that works. https://wapo.st/449ZCFM
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- bbonb July 7, 2026, 16:47:31