TOWNES VAN ZANDT OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN GATEFOLD LP POPPY 1969 FIRST PRESSING
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN GATEFOLD LP POPPY 1969 FIRST PRESSING IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION.
ONE OF THE FINEST COPIES I HAVE SEEN.
YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED AND PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS!
RELEASED APRIL 1969
Our Mother the Mountain is the second album by country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in 1969. It is considered to be one of his greatest recordings and features some of his best known works, including "Be Here To Love Me", "Snake Mountain Blues", and "Our Mother The Mountain".
The basic tracks for Our Mother the Mountain were recorded in Los Angeles with overdubs recorded in Nashville. The album was produced by Jack Clement and Jim Malloy, who produced Van Zandt's first album For the Sake of The Song, and Kevin Eggers, who ran Poppy Records and also managed Van Zandt. Several big name musicians played on the album, including James Burton (famed for playing behind Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley) and renowned session player Charlie McCoy. "Tecumseh Valley", which had appeared on the singer's debut album, was rerecorded for Our Mother the Mountain as a result of Van Zandt's dissatisfaction with the garish production employed on For the Sake of the Song. Although the tracks on Our Mother the Mountain were sweetened in Nashville, there was a somewhat simpler, light-handed approach taken production-wise on his follow-up LP.
Like most albums released during his lifetime, Our Mother the Mountain did not sell in great numbers but reinforced his reputation as a "songwriter's songwriter". In the 2004 biopic Be Here To Love Me (its title taken from the opening track on Our Mother the Mountain), musician Joe Ely recalls first hearing the album after Van Zandt had given him a copy when they first crossed paths in Lubbock, Texas when Ely picked the singer up hitchhiking back to Houston from San Francisco in 1971. Van Zandt was carrying only his guitar and a backpack stuffed with records and, as a means of thanking Ely, gave him a brand-new copy of Our Mother the Mountain. "I'd never met anybody who'd actually recorded an album before," Ely remembered, "and I take the record back to Jimmie Gilmore. We put the record on and we're just mesmerized by it. Ends up we played that record over and over for weeks. It made us rethink what we were doing and what a song was all about." In the book To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, John Kruth describes the title track as "otherworldly. Like the best of Van Zandt's dark sagas, this tale of a bewitched lover is a minor-key waltz that limps along like foreboding footsteps approaching in the hall, coming closer, closer, closer, as the song slowly envelops you." AllMusic writes that, "'St. John the Gambler' is the kind of hopeless, poetic love ballad Van Zandt does so well, with an aching melody that would have sounded better without the sappy strings," and notes that the best tracks "are bunched up at the end of the album and only add minimal touches to Van Zandt's moaning delivery and sparse picking."
Track listing
All tracks written by Townes Van Zandt.
Side one No. Title Length 1. "Be Here to Love Me" 2:38 2. "Kathleen" 2:47 3. "She Came and She Touched Me" 4:03 4. "Like a Summer Thursday" 3:04 5. "Our Mother the Mountain" 4:22 6. "Second Lovers Song" 2:16 Side two No. Title Length 7. "St. John the Gambler" 3:06 8. "Tecumseh Valley" 4:55 9. "Snake Mountain Blues" 2:39 10. "My Proud Mountains" 5:04 11. "Why She's Acting This Way" 5:24 Total length: 40:18Personnel
- Townes Van Zandt - vocals, guitar
- Ben Bennay - harmonica
- James Burton - Dobro, guitar
- John Clauder - drums
- David Cohen - guitar
- Chuck Domanico - bass
- Jack Clement - guitar
- Charlie McCoy - bass, guitar, harmonica, organ, recorder
- Lyle Ritz - bass
- Don Randi - keyboards
- Harvey Newmark - bass
- Mike Deasy - guitar
- Donald Frost - drums
- Jules Jacob - flute
- Bergen White - string arrangements
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