Mountain (album)

Mountain
Studio album by Leslie West
Released	July 1969
Genre	Blues-rock, hard rock
Label	Windfall
Producer	Felix Pappalardi
Leslie West chronology
Mountain (1969) The Great Fatsby (1975)

Mountain is the 1969 debut solo album from guitarist Leslie West.^[1] It is often cited as a Mountain album, but was actually a solo album which contained some members of Mountain.

Tracklist

1. "Blood of the Sun" (West, Pappalardi, Collins) – 2:35
2. "Long Red" (West, Pappalardi, John Ventura, Norman Landsberg) – 3:14
3. "Better Watch Out" (Pappalardi, Collins) – 2:47
4. "Blind Man" (Collins, Pappalardi, West, Ventura) – 3:50
5. "Baby, I'm Down" (Pappalardi, Collins) – 3:58
6. "Dreams of Milk and Honey" (West, Pappalardi, Ventura, Landsberg) – 3:22
7. "Storyteller Man" (West, Pappalardi, Ventura, Landsberg) – 3:04
8. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Dylan, Danko) – 3:18
9. "Look to the Wind" (West, Pappalardi, Ventura) – 2:43
10. "Southbound Train" (West, Ventura, Landsberg) – 2:57
11. "Because You Are My Friend" (West) – 3:10

Personnel

• Leslie West - guitars, vocals
• Felix Pappalardi - bass, keyboards, production
• N.D. Smart^[2] - drums

Covers

"Baby I'm Down" was covered as "Immortal" on the Clutch album Pure Rock Fury. Leslie West guested on that track.

"Blood of The Sun" was covered on the Japanese edition of the Spiritual Beggars album On Fire.

References

1. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Leslie-West/dp/B000002ASH
2. ^ http://www.thecoolgroove.com/smart.html