Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain (Dig)
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Artist: Townes Van ZandtEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
CD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Music Label: Fat Possum Records
Soundtracks:
- Be Here to Love Me
- Kathleen
- She Came and She Touched Me
- Like a Summer Thursday
- Our Mother the Mountain
- Second Lovers Song
- St. John the Gambler
- Tecumseh Valley
- Snake Mountain Blues
- My Proud Mountains
- Why She's Acting This Way
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Free Music Review: One of the Best Albums EVER.
Hit: 5 Stars
1983. I'm a sixteen-year-old rooting through lp cut-outs in an Alco store in Loveland, Colorado. I find an album called Our Mother the Mountain by a guy in a cowboy hat and Lennon specs with an odd name. I see no way this album could be any good and move on.
Sometimes, Fate is kind and gives you a second chance.
1984. I've discovered the local public radio station. The morning man plays an amazing song that captivates me. I catch the phrase "Our mother the mountain" in the song. I realize I made a serious mistake in Loveland. Later that year, I'm searching for blank cassettes in a hardware store. I find an 8-track tape for fifty cents: Our Mother the Mountain. I don't repeat my earlier mistake.
This is Townes Van Zandt's masterpiece and one of the finest collections of music ever released. There is not a trace of filler, and many of the songs are classics. "Tecumseh Valley" and "St. John the Gambler" have to be two of the most masterful story-songs out there. Relationships and their attendant complexities are documented quite well in "Be Here to Love Me," "Second Lover's Song," Like a Summer's Thursday," and "Why She's Acting this Way." "Our Mother the Mountain" sounds like a spooky folk song from the seventeenth century; "Kathleen" is just plain harrowing.
There's an otherworldly, unnameable quality to this music. It resonates through my entire being. I've never heard another album like it.
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