Mountains: July 5, 2011

Our first episode of July kicks off a month of themes focusing on the natural beauty of the Kootenay region here in BC. With that in mind, Mountains is the theme this week.

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Let's start with a song that captures that mountain feeling, even though it's about mountains on the other side of the continent.

Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains" - Fleet Foxes (2008)

Neil Young - "Sugar Mountain" - Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 (2008)

Let's check in on some mountains closer to the Kootenays with a group from Calgary.

Miesha and the Spanks - "Up in the Mountains" - Gods of Love (2011)

Wilco - "Remember the Mountain Bed" - Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000)

Mountains are often used as metaphors for love.

David Vertesi - "Mountainside" - Cardiography (2010)

Ingrid Michaelson - "Mountain and the Sea" - Everybody (2009)

Sometimes mountains represent an impossible task.

Lucero - "The Mountain" - Rebels, Rogues and Sworn Brothers (2006)

Heartless Bastards - "The Mountain" - The Mountain (2009)

Yet we're still always trying to scale the mountain.

Bedouin Soundclash - "Mountain Top" - Light the Horizon (2010)

Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song" - Nothing's Shocking (1988)

We end with a hard funk take on an old classic.

Funkadelic - "Comin' Round the Mountain" - Hardcore Jollies (1976)