Nantucket Sleighride is the second album by hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Mountain

Mountain (band)

Mountain is an American hard rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist Felix Pappalardi and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 before reuniting in 1974 and remaining active until today...

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Track listing

1. "Don't Look Around" (West/Palmer/Pappalardi/Collins) - 3:42
2. "Taunta (Sammy's Tune)" (Pappalardi) - 1:00
3. "Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:49
4. "You Can't Get Away" (West/Collins/Laing) - 3:23
5. "Tired Angels (To J.M.H.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:39
6. "The Animal Trainer And The Toad" (West/Palmer) - 3:24
7. "My Lady" (Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:31
8. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:21
9. "The Great Train Robbery" (West/Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:43
10. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.) [Live Bonus Track not included on original vinyl album]" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:14

Personnel

• Leslie West
  Leslie West
  Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Felix Pappalardi
  Felix Pappalardi
  Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass guitarist.- Early life :Pappalardi was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
   - bass, rhythm guitar, piano, vocals
• Corky Laing
  Corky Laing
  Laurence Gordon "Corky" Laing is a Canadian rock drummer, best known as a longtime member of pioneering American hard rock band Mountain...
  
   - drums, percussion
• Steve Knight
  Steve Knight (musician)
  Steve Knight is an American musician best known as the keyboardist for Mountain, a rock band of the early 1970s.Knight was born in New York to artist parents. From 1938–1950, his family lived in Woodstock, New York. In 1950, his father became a professor at Columbia University and moved the...
  
   - 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

Nantucket Sleighride

Nantucket Sleighride is the second album by hard rock band Mountain.- Track listing :# "Don't Look Around" - 3:42# "Taunta " - 1:00...

.) The person to whom the song is dedicated, Owen Coffin

Owen Coffin

Owen Coffin was a 17-year-old sailor aboard the Nantucket whaleship Essex when it set sail for the Pacific Ocean on a sperm whale-hunting expedition in August 1819, under the command of his cousin, George Pollard, Jr...

, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaleship 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. The Essex's story was recorded by its First Mate, Owen Chase

Owen Chase

Owen Chase was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on November 20, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex...

, one of eight survivors, in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex.

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

Weekend World

Weekend World is a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988.Created by John Birt not long after he moved to LWT, the series was broadcast on the ITV network at lunchtimes on Sundays...

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A cover version was recorded by British heavy metal band Quartz

Quartz (metal band)

-History:Quartz dates back to as early as 1974 when they were known as Bandy Legs. They signed to Jet Records in 1976 and supported Black Sabbath and AC/DC. The band changed their name to Quartz for their 1977 debut album, Quartz. The album was produced by Tony Iommi and Quartz toured with Black...

in 1980.