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Nantucket Sleighride is the second studio album by American hard rock band Mountain, released in January 1971 by Windfall Records in the US and by Island in the UK. It reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 200 Album Chart in 1971.
Live: The Road Goes Ever On received mixed reviews. Upon its release, Billboard magazine published a review outlining that "Mountain rocks on and on with seventeen minutes and thirty-eight seconds of a "Nantucket Sleighride" plus three others that will pull every emotion from you and turn into knockout enthusiasm previously undiscovered."
Mountain was an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1969. [1] [2] Originally consisting of vocalist-guitarist Leslie West, bassist-vocalist Felix Pappalardi, keyboardist Steve Knight, and drummer N. D. Smart (soon replaced by Corky Laing), the group disbanded in 1972, but reunited on several occasions prior to West's death in 2020. [3]
Awarding it two out of five stars – the same rating he gave to Live: The Road Goes Ever On [14] – the writer claimed that "The content [on the album] ends up showing off the best and the worst attributes of Mountain", the latter of which he singled out as being the 32-minute rendition of "Nantucket Sleighride" (although he admitted that "it ...
Two line-ups of Mountain in 1970 and 2016. Mountain was an American hard rock band from Long Island, New York. Formed in July 1969, the group originally consisted of guitarist and lead vocalist Leslie West, bassist and second vocalist Felix Pappalardi, drummer Norman "N. D." Smart and keyboardist Steve Knight. Pappalardi and Smart had performed on West's debut album Mountain earlier in the ...
Nantucket is a Southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1969. Originally known as a beach music band named Stax of Gold, and later Nantucket Sleighride (after the song and album by Mountain) which was eventually shortened to Nantucket, the six-member group—Tommy Redd, Larry Uzzell, Mike Uzzell, Eddie Blair, Kenny Soule, and Mark Downing—first became successful in their ...
Excitement included, the day still felt somewhat unceremonious, oddly normal, rather ho-hum. It was almost like Soto had been familiar with Port St. Lucie for five years already.
Felix Albert Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) [1] was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist.He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song "Mississippi Queen" peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a classic rock radio staple.