Wild Montana Skies

{{Infobox song | name = Wild Montana Skies | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = John Denver and Emmylou Harris | album = It's About Time | B-side = | released = November 1983 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = [[Country music| Country music | length = 4:02 | label = RCA | writer = | producer = John Denver, Barney Wyckoff }}

"Wild Montana Skies" is a single from John Denver's 1983 album It's About Time, featuring vocals from Emmylou Harris. The song is often highly rated as a Western and Montana-themed song.

Reception

In 2010, the Western Writers of America rated "Wild Montana Skies" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1] In 2013, "Wild Montana Skies" won a poll as the "best song about Montana" run by the Great Falls Tribune.[2]

Reception was not entirely positive; the New York Daily News rated the song as the second-worst song with the word "wild" in the title, second only to "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphey.[3]

Chart performance

References
  1. Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011.
  2. Inbody, Kristen (January 20, 2013). "Song survey strikes chord with readers". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  3. "Unchained melodies". New York Daily News. Tribune Publishing. August 19, 1990. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
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