WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – He is ours. But he is also theirs. Few artists are more closely associated with Colorado than John Denver. The capital is named after him. OK, that is a lie. He was born John Deutschendorf in Roswell, N.M. We always knew our mountains were beautiful, but when he put our thoughts to his lyrics in “Rocky Mountain High” five decades ago it became our state’s unofficial soundtrack. But West Virginians consider Denver one of them.

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