Mount Rushmore was a rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band in the late 1960s from San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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 that played a heavy blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 rock style with psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

 elements.

The band formed in late 1966 at 1915 Oak Street, a large Victorian rooming house in the Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California

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 district. In June and July 1967 they were featured on posters for shows at the Avalon Ballroom with other bands including the Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco.-Introduction:Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe and several of their albums ranked...

 and Big Brother and the Holding Company

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their...

. After some members including Phillips left for the band Phoenix in 1968, new members were added and the group made two albums.

Members on the Recordings

• Mike Bolan — "Bull" — guitar
• Glenn Smith — "Smitty" — vocals, guitar
• Travis Fullerton
  Travis Fullerton
  Travis Fullerton is a rock musician, playing drums for various California bands and sessions.In San Francisco, California Fullerton played with Sam the Sham in 1966, Quicksilver , and Mount Rushmore, 1967-1969. In 1970 he moved to Hollywood. He was part of the group The Hot Band in 1973 that...
  
   — drums, percussion
• Terry Kimball — bass

Warren B. Phillips was the former lead singer for the band and wrote a few songs that were recorded by the band after he left.

Fullerton continued a career as a drummer. Mike Bolan and Glenn Smith were previously members of The Fabulous Shadows, a band from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

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, 1963-1968 http://pnwbands.com/shadows.html. Mike Bolan rejoined them later and they have been performing in Idaho on through 2005 http://www.postfallspress.com/articles/2005/08/06/columns/columns03.txt. Terry Kimball (deceased) was a member of the band Tony Vance and The Progress Hornsby 4, from Spokane, Washington

Spokane, Washington

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, 1967 - 1968 http://pnwbands.com/tonyvanceprogresshornsby4.html.

High on Mount Rushmore

High on Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore
Released	1969
Recorded	1969
Genre Music genre A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...	Rock Rock music Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
Length	39 min Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... , 17 sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock....
Label Record label In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...	DOT Records
Producer Record producer A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...	Ray Buff
Reviews

• produced by Ray Ruff, 1969, DOT Records DLP 25898

1. Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix
   Jimi Hendrix
   James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
   
   ) 3:57
2. Without No Smog (Glenn Smith, Mike Bolan) 5:27
3. Ocean (Warren B. Phillips) 4:07
4. I Don't Believe in Statues (Warren B. Phillips) 4:08
5. Looking Back (Glenn Smith, Mike Bolan, T. Fullerton, T. Kimball) 9:40
6. ('Cause) She's So Good to Me (Bobby Womack
   Bobby Womack
   Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...
   
   ) 3:35
7. Medley: 7:23

• Fannie Mae (B. Brown, M. Robinson)
• Dope Song (Glenn Smith)
  • Album dedicated to: "The Love Burger Lady of Haight Street"

Mount Rushmore '69

• produced by Ray Ruff, 1969, DOT Records DLP 25934

1. It's Just the Way I Feel (Glenn Smith) 4:35
2. 10:09 Blues (Glenn Smith) 5:53
3. Toe Jam (Kimball, Fullerton, Bolan) 5:45
4. V-8 Ford Blues (Willie Lowe) 2:35
5. Love is the Reason (Dotzler, Phillips, Bolan, Levin, Esterlie) 3:55
6. I'm Comin' Home (Glenn Smith, Mike Bolan) 7:35
7. King of Earrings (Warren B. Phillips) 4:00
8. Somebody's Else's Games (Glenn Smith) 4:35

High On / '69

In 2002, a European CD was released by Lizard that combined the two albums, with the songs from the '69 album first.

Single

• Stone Free / ('Cause) She's So Good to Me, 1968, DOT 17158