Mystic Fire

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Mystic Fire
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Studio album by
Released2002
StudioAt Showplace Studios, Dover, NJ, USA
Genre Blues rock, hard rock
Label Lightyear Entertainment
Producer The Insulin Brothers, Ben Elliott
Mountain chronology
Man's World
(1996)
Mystic Fire
(2002)
Masters of War
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Mystic Fire is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Mountain, released in 2002. [2] It is their final album of original material, as their following album, Masters of War , would consist solely of covers.

Contents

The album includes the song "Immortal", which was co-written with and originally performed by Clutch. "Immortal" was originally released with different lyrics, and a different arrangement, as the song "Baby I'm Down" on Mountain (1969), Leslie West's first solo album. Clutch covered the song on their 2001 album Pure Rock Fury , rearranging it and changing the lyrics; their version has a guitar solo by Leslie West. Mountain then covered that version of the song on this album.

Track listing

  1. "Immortal" (Leslie West, Neil Fallon) - 3:59
  2. "Mystic Fire" (Corky Laing, Leslie West) - 4:44
  3. "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) - 3:22
  4. "The Sea" (George Citron, Leslie West) - 5:19
  5. "Mutant X" (Corky Laing, Leslie West) - 5:17
  6. "Better Off with the Blues" (Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson) - 4:15
  7. "Mountain Express (Oh Boy)" (Leslie West) - 2:56
  8. "Marble Peach / Rotten Peach" (Corky Laing, Leslie West) - 5:01
  9. "Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Traditional) - 2:50
  10. "Nantucket Sleighride (Redux)" (Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins) - 7:29

Personnel

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Additional personnel

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