Take Me Home, Country Roads (Toots & The Maytals)
Song
Toots Hibbert took John Denver's gentle Appalachian folk-country anthem and transplanted its emotional geography straight to rural Jamaica, changing the lyric to Westmoreland and replacing mountain serenity with blistering gospel soul. Driven by a stomping, uptempo reggae beat and call-and-response backing vocals, Hibbert turns nostalgic longing into an ecstatic celebration of home.