Nantucket Sleighride (album)
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| Released | January 1971 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1970 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant, New York City, New York | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 35:12 | |||
| Label | Windfall (US) Island (UK) | |||
| Producer | Felix Pappalardi | |||
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Nantucket Sleighride is the second studio album by American hard rock band Mountain, released in January 1971 by Windfall Records in the US and by Island in the UK. It reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 200 Album Chart in 1971.
The album included the song "Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin)," a song about a young seaman who was shot and eaten by his shipmates after their ship, the Nantucket whaler Essex, was sunk by a sperm whale. The album also features the song "The Animal Trainer and the Toad," their second and final song to make it onto the charts.