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10 Most Obvious Mountain Songs

Posted Tue May 12, 2009 4:32pm PDT by Robert of the Radish in The Y! Music Playlist Blog

I spent this past weekend in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains, a place where I like to escape whenever I have a chance. I took a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which I think is one of the most beautiful roads in America. Along the parkway I grabbed lunch at the Pisgah Inn, a place that has some stunning views and an intense cream of shiitake and prosciutto soup. While enjoying this most wonderful lunch I got to thinking about mountain songs. Not necessarily mountain music, but songs inspired by the mountains, or that have a mountain as a central theme.

However, instead of picking what I felt were the very best mountain songs for a playlist I decided to just write down the first 10 mountain-themed tracks that came to my mind, no matter what they were. The result is this playlist.

Of course, if I did this on a different day the results could have been very different, and I make no claim that these are the best mountain songs out there. But they are the first 10 I thought of, in order.

10 Most Obvious Mountain Songs 

   1. Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction   

   2. Rocky Top - The Osborne Brothers   

   3. Fire On The Mountain - The Grateful Dead   

   4. Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin   

   5. Rocky Mountain High - John Denver   

   6. Mountain Music - Alabama   

   7. On Top Of Old Smoky - The Weavers   

   8. Sugar Mountain - Neil Young   

   9. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Flatt and Scruggs   

   10. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh

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6 Comments

1. DUDE -
"Fall mountain....just don't fall on me"....
-Jimi Hendrix-

2. Bobby -
Blue Ridge Mountains -- Fleet Foxes

3. Gregory -
I am most selling of dreams to oxen heroes. Am in most agreement with Jost Andre. About words to say the writing good. Haha.

4. Gerry -
"First There Is A Mountain"-Donovan (later revamped as "Mountain Jam" by The Allman Brothers band).

5. Yahoo! Music User -
Mountains - Biffy Clyro

6. GdawgSteppin -
Beaucatcher Mtn.-The New Christy Mintrels
Black Mtn Rag-The Dillards
Burnin' Down The Mtn.-Steve Vai
Go Tell It On The Mtn.-Bob Marley
Man On The Silver Mountain-Rainbow (Dio)
Night On Disco [Bald] Mtn.-Whichever you prefer
Over The Mtn-Ozzy Osbourne
Rocky Mtn Music-Eddie Rabbit
Wild Mtn Honey-Steve Miller Band
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