Nantucket Sleighride (album)

Nantucket Sleighride
Studio album by Mountain
Released	January 1971
Recorded	late 1970
Genre	Hard rock
Length	35:12
Label	Sony Windfall
Producer	Bud Prager, Felix Pappalardi
Mountain chronology
Climbing! (1970) Nantucket Sleighride (1971) Flowers of Evil (1971)

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Nantucket Sleighride is the second album by hard rock band Mountain.

Track listing

1. "Don't Look Around" (West/Palmer/Pappalardi/Collins) - 3:42
2. "Taunta (Sammy's Tune)" (Pappalardi) - 1:00
3. "Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:49
4. "You Can't Get Away" (West/Collins/Laing) - 3:23
5. "Tired Angels (To J.M.H.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:39
6. "The Animal Trainer And The Toad" (West/Palmer) - 3:24
7. "My Lady" (Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:31
8. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:21
9. "The Great Train Robbery" (West/Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:43
10. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.) [Live Bonus Track not included on original vinyl album]" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:14

Personnel

• Leslie West - guitar, vocals
• Felix Pappalardi - bass, rhythm guitar, piano, vocals
• Corky Laing - drums, percussion
• Steve Knight - organ, handbells

Title track

The song and album title is a reference to the experience of being towed along in a small boat by a harpooned whale (see Nantucket Sleighride.) The person to whom the song is dedicated, Owen Coffin, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaleship Essex, which was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820. In the aftermath of the wreck, Coffin was shot and eaten by his shipmates. The Essex's story was recorded by its First Mate, Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex.^[2]

"Nantucket Sleighride" was used as the theme to the long-running British political television show Weekend World.

A cover version was recorded by British heavy metal band Quartz in 1980.

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Chase, Owen (1821). Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. New York: W. B. Gilley. OCLC 12217894. http://books.google.com/books?id=qgaD97DaxfQC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=Narrative+of+the+Most+Extraordinary+and+Distressing+Shipwreck+of+the+Whale-Ship+Essex&source=bl&ots=iJ8Ja_70fy&sig=_jnoOwXXE-O88qGjUTvME4q57dM&hl=en&ei=1VnrS9efO8SqlAeYyY3VCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Narrative%20of%20the%20Most%20Extraordinary%20and%20Distressing%20Shipwreck%20of%20the%20Whale-Ship%20Essex&f=false.  Also in Heffernan, Thomas Farel, Stove by a whale: Owen Chase and the Essex, Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; [New York] : distributed by Columbia University Press, 1981.