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Elephant Mountain, the magnetic third album by the Youngbloods, is commonly looked upon as the pinnacle of the legendary Bay Area combo's abundant eight-year career. From its spine-chilling opening track--the strains of a somber Appalachian fiddle permeating "Darkness, Darkness"--the listener is inexorably sucked into psychedelic quicksand by the haunting vocals of Jesse Colin Young, whose plaintive cry to "hide the constant yearning for things that cannot be" proves mournfully irresistible. In addition to Young's songwriting masterpiece, the 1969 album also spotlights a sharp, country-rocking vocal duet ("Smug") by Young and recently-departed singer Jerry Corbitt, as well as the jazzy interplay between electric keyboard whiz Banana and the locked-in groove of drummer Joe Bauer during magical instrumental "On Sir Francis Drake." More songwriting gems loom like sacred totems on this landmark longplayer, including Young's signature ballads "Sunlight," "Quicksand" and "Ride the Wind." It's the Youngbloods at the top of their game, indelibly writing their names in the ledger of consummate San Francisco rock 'n' roll.

1. Darkness, Darkness
2. Smug
3. On Sir Francis Drake
4. Sunlight
5. Double Sunlight
6. Beautiful
7. Turn It Over
8. Don't Let the Rain Get You Down
9. Trillium
10. Quicksand
11. Black Mountain Breakdown
12. Sham
13. Ride the Wind
14. Pool Hall Song
15. Beautiful (alternate version)

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This may be worth picking up just for the mastering, if Sundazed does their usual good job. The most common US edition is the now out of print One Way "2fer" with E.M. & Get Together. It was one of One Way's worst sounding discs ever, horribly screechy. I ended up with one of the Edsel UK editions (I don't remember if it was the 1st edition or the remaster) which was more listenable then the One Way.

I think I have it on one of my ancient tapes I've stored away and haven't listened to in years, but I seem to recall that Bruce Springsteen, when he was in Steel Mill, did a cover of "Darkness, Darkness"