Our Mother the Mountain is the second album by country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt released in 1969. It is generally acknowledged as his first masterpiece and although it sold little upon release, it initially influenced fellow Texas country singer/songwriters Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore who would soon form The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely.
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Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or mountain:
“For this your mother sweated in the cold,
For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
A paper wreath; a day at home for me.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Give me the islands of the upper air,
all mountains
and the towering mountain trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)