Be Here To Love Me/Kathleen/She Came & 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
Townes Van Zandt was a Texan singer songwriter who achieved cult status in the late 1960s without gaining wider popular recognition. His second album Our Mother The Mountain began the start of his most creative period.
"Lyrically Van Zandt swings between Dylan and Hank Williams but vocally I'm constantly reminded of Glen Campbell, a strange mix maybe but never an awkward one. Once again the album is populated by a group of misfits, outsiders, losers and dropouts, but this time there's a more pronounced link to love. Love lost, love unrequited, broken hearts, love regretted, love desired. Our Mother The Mountain is a very emotional album."
"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 well documented in several songs. Our Mother The Mountain sounds like a spooky folk song from the seventeenth century; Kathleen is just plain harrowing."
"It is a combination of the seriousness and depression of Cohen and the jovial, blissful happy tone of young Bob Dylan. By '69 country music was so far on the back burner that many hippies had forgotten where a good portion of their rock & roll originally came from. It'd be a stretch to say that Our Mother The Mountain changed all that, or made a very big impact on the masses at all, but the people who heard this record, were changed forever."
"This is a very delicately produced album full of deep, dark and sensual music all led beautifully by Townes Van Zandt true and rich voice. This is just American singer songwriter music of great style, great taste and of the highest order."
"Our Mother The Mountain contains some of the most haunting country songs ever made. Even though Van Zandt's lyrics are highly poetic and it's sometimes hard to understand their meaning, he still manages to make his music compelling, just by the strength of his warm voice and melodies."
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