McGuire's Landing

Anglo-Celtic Instrumental with full string orchestration. While touring as John Denver’s lead guitarist, Pete Huttlinger composed and demoed an instrumental piece he named “McGuire’s Landing.” Upon hearing the demo, Denver asked Huttlinger what the song was about. “It’s not about anything,” said Huttlinger. “It’s just a tune I came up with.” Again Denver pressed him, “What’s it about, Pete? I know you must have had some picture in your mind when you wrote it. So what were you seeing?” Huttlinger admitted that he visualized images of a girl standing on a shore and looking out to sea for her lover’s return. That was enough for Denver. “I want to write lyrics to your song,” he told his young sideman. Huttlinger readily agreed. But Denver died in an airplane crash in 1997 before he could contribute his part.