Label: Repertoire Records (Europe), REPUK 1094
Style: Hard Rock, Rhythm and Blues
Country: Long Island, New York, U.S.
Time: 45:49
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 260 Mb
A new band named Mountain delivered their debut album on March 7, 1970, then watched the cheekily named Climbing! quickly move into the Billboard Top 20 on the strength of the smash hit single and future classic rock staple, "Mississippi Queen."
Sounds simple, right? The story of Mountain's quick ascension to mainstream fame is a little more complicated than that.
Mountain was actually named after the solo album released by singer and guitarist Leslie West, formerly of the Vagrants, in July 1969. This had been produced by bassist and talented arranger Felix Pappalardi, who had spent the previous years working in close cahoots with the world's first rock supergroup, Cream.
Less than a month later, the newly rechristened group, rounded out by organist Steve Knight and drummer N.D. Smart, found themselves on stage at Woodstock, which immediately transformed these and other relative unknowns into virtual household names. Keenly aware of their good fortune and perfect timing, West and Pappalardi quickly moved to capitalize by recruiting drummer Laurence "Corky" Laing and getting to work on the first proper Mountain album.
Climbing! wound up straddling popular music's transition from the '60s to the '70s like few contemporary releases: simultaneously carrying the torch for the Cream and Jimi Hendrix Experience-based power trios that had been so dominant in the dying decade, whiled fully embracing the new one's nascent hard-rock developments.
(ultimateclassicrock.com/mountain-band-climbing/)
01. Mississippi Queen (02:32)
02. Theme for an Imaginary Western (05:07)
03. Never in My Life (03:53)
04. Silver Paper (03:17)
05. For Yasgur's Farm (03:23)
06. To My Friend (03:38)
07. The Laird (04:39)
08. Sittin' on a Rainbow (02:23)
09. Boys in the Band (03:40)
10. Mississippi Queen (single version) (02:32)
11. The Laird (single version) (04:39)
12. Sittin' on a Rainbow (single version) (02:23)
13. To My Friend (single version) (03:38)
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