Nantucket Sleighride (album)

Untitled

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

Track listing

1. "Don't Look Around" (West/Palmer/Pappalardi/Collins) - 3:47
2. "Taunta (Sammy's Tune)" (Pappalardi) - 1:00
3. "Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:55
4. "You Can't Get Away" (West/Collins/Laing) - 3:28
5. "Tired Angels (To J.M.H.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:42
6. "The Animal Trainer And The Toad" (West/Palmer) - 3:29
7. "My Lady" (Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:35
8. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:26
9. "The Great Train Robbery" (West/Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:50
10. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.) [Live Bonus Track]" (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 was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaler 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 (see Owen Coffin).

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