This is and is not Mountain. It's actually a Leslie West solo album (fresh out of a New York band called The Vagrants, who apparently didn't have much success outside of New York City), with Felix Pappalrdi participating, and a different drummer, with no Steve Knight. It's a bit strange that it sounds like Mountain and it doesn't at the same time. A couple songs have a more psychedelic bent than what Mountain would do, like the organ-laden "Long Red" and the Mellotron-laden "Look to the Wind" (Felix Pappalardi, as well as Rick Nielsen of Fuse, later of Cheap Trick, were the earliest American owners of the Mellotron, both had to buy in England given the Mellotron wasn't available in the States until around 1972). But the album still has plenty of heavy guitar riffs with a blues-based feel, might not be as heavy as "Mississippi Queen", but then we hadn't quite got there yet. They also take on Bob Dylan & Rick Danko's "This Wheel's On Fire" (unsurprisingly The Band did a version of this off Music From Big Pink, as this was originally from The Basement Tapes, and in the UK Julie Driscoll scored a hit with Brian Auger & The Trinity, and she rerecorded a version in 1992 for the TV show Absolutely Fabulous). Much of the music on this album has a rather bluesy feel, demonstrating quite well how much heavy metal had its roots in the blues. "Southbound Train" has some rather early '70s type of organ to go with that early '70s type of heavy rock (I know, this is 1969). "Because You Are My Friend" is a bit different, a more acoustic folk piece where Leslie West does not use his trademark harsh voice. Honestly I found this album very enjoyable, and certainly you'd probably go for Mountain (the band) first (such as Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride), this album is where the roots of Mountain came from.