Sold Date: February 12, 2018
Start Date: February 2, 2018
Final Price: $82.55 (USD)
Bid Count: 6
Seller Feedback: 65
Buyer Feedback: 17

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Label/Catalog Number:      Poppy Records  PSY 40004

Condition
      Media:      VG++ Several paper scuffs on both sides, but no affect on audio experience. Light surface noise
                                   between some songs. Labels in good shape with no spindle wear or marks. (see photos)     
      Sleeve:     VG    Unipak Gatefold sleeve has ring wear on front & back, a 1" wear area on top but no
                                  seam split, general shelf wear on edges and corners.  (see photos)
      Matrix:      Side 1:     X4RS-6524-3S  A2D         R           Side 2:   X4RS-6525-3S  B1A           R

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Tracklist
A1     Be Here To Love Me     2:36
A2     Kathleen                                  2:45
A3     She Came And She Touched Me 4:00
A4     Like A Summer Thursday     3:00
A5     Our Mother The Mountain     4:13
A6     Second Lovers Song     2:12
B1     St. John The Gambler     3:02
B2     Tecumseh Valley                    4:45
B3     Snake Mountain Blues     2:36
B4     My Proud Mountains     4:59
B5     Why She's Acting This Way     5:32

Companies, etc.
    Mastered At – Bradley's Barn
    Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Rockaway
Credits
    Bass – Chuck Domanico, Harvey Newmark, Lyle Ritz
    Composed By – Townes Van Zandt
    Contractor – Donnie Owens
    Design [Designed] – Milton Glaser
    Drums – Donald Frost, John Clauden
    Engineer – Charlie Talent
    Flute – Jules Jacob
    Guitar – David Cohen, Mike Deasy, Townes Van Zandt
    Guitar [Dobro] – James Burton
    Guitar, Recorder, Harmonica, Organ, Bass – Charlie McCoy
    Harmonica – Ben Bernay
    Piano – Don Randi
    Producer – Jack Clement, Jim Malloy, Kevin Eggers

Notes
Recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville


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Album Reviews
Townes Van Zandt Our Mother The Mountain1969, 9.5/10
Like For The Sake Of The Song, Townes Van Zandt’s songs on Our Mother The Mountain are given pompous arrangements. This time, however, the orchestral arrangements are used to complement the bleakness of Van Zandt’s lyrical vision on his darkest set of songs. The narrator in ‘Kathleen’ surrenders himself altogether to hopelessness, while many of the songs address the weakness of man in the face of sin and temptation. In between the darkness, Van Zandt’s writing gorgeous poetry – “Like silence she stands/Like laughter she falls/From a castle of sand/Like a memory she calls” – is the opening couplet to ‘Why She’s Acting This Way’ – and it’s the tension between tragedy and beauty, and between Van Zandt’s dour Texan voice and lyrics and the lush strings and flutes that give Our Mother The Mountain its unique, and at times otherworldly, power.
It’s the bleak material here that stands out immediately. The twenty year old who surrenders first to ‘St. John The Gambler’, then to death in the snowy mountains, the faithful daughter who succumbs to prostitution when her father dies, and the fated lover in the title track are all characters whose choices leave them utterly forlorn, and Van Zandt’s gentle voice and guitar picking capture their despair with empathy and beauty. The pretty ‘Like A Summer Thursday’ is pared down to acoustic guitar and harmonica, while the bluesy groove of ‘Snake Mountain Blues’ is an intelligent change of pace, giving the album a jolt of energy and dark humour just when it’s needed.
Van Zandt captures sinfulness and beauty in equal amounts, and the resulting Our Mother The Mountain is a dark masterpiece, softened by pretty poetry. -by Aphoristic Album Reviews

I’m not a country fan. I don’t listen to country music. I listen to progressive metal and alternative rock. Why am I even here writing this review" Because I heard “St. John the Gambler” in the background of In Bruges and thought it was an incredible song.
I needed more, so more I got. After going through four or five albums of Van Zandt’s music, I’d have to say that this album is his best. There is not a bad song on this album, not even a poor song. The worst this album gets is passable with “Be here to love me” and “Like a summer Thursday”. The rest of the songs are well written and soulfully executed. Van Zandt’s voice is full of the twang that I generally can’t stand, but with him it seems as though there’s more to the music. The songs may be simple, but the range of emotions and the feeling that comes through is strong. From the folk-tale resembling title track, to the world weary “My Proud Mountains”, Our Mother the Mountain is a great piece of work that deserves far more attention than it's getting.  by Ryan Knowles July 8th, 2013  on sputnikmusic.com

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