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Our Mother the Mountain

Townes Van Zandt

April 1969

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8.8
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Tracklist 11 tracks, 39:40
  1. A1Be Here to Love Me2:36
  2. A2Kathleen2:45
  3. A3She Came and She Touched Me4:00
  4. A4Like a Summer Thursday3:00
  5. A5Our Mother the Mountain4:13
  6. A6Second Lovers Song2:12
  7. B1St. John the Gambler3:02
  8. B2Tecumseh Valley4:45
  9. B3Snake Mountain Blues2:36
  10. B4My Proud Mountains4:59
  11. B5Why She’s Acting This Way5:32

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Rated 10/10

This album is a velvet nightmare on a bed of nails, a lonely road to death on a mountainside, with carousing shame down in the valley.

Rated 9/10

Townes effortlessly combined 3 things I like about music: the songwriting, country genre, and melancholy. His first album has some moments, but here is where TVZ truly shines. He reworked some songs and the results are more than good.

If I'd compare this album to food, it's like dark chocolate: it's good for you, maybe a bit strong, but once you get the hang of it, you can never return to regular chocolate.