Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert began writing songs together while students at
Georgetown University and played on the local Washington D.C. folk scene in the
late 1960s as a duo called Fat City. They struck up a friendship with John
Denver when they supported him in small clubs in the area, and gave him a song
they had originally written with Johnny Cash in mind. With a few finishing
touches, Denver took Take Me Home, Country Roads to number two in the US charts
and established it as a classic country ballad of the era that went on to become
the official state anthem of West Virgin...