Angel Food

Description

Angel Food is the sole album by the American rock outfit Mountain Angel Band, released on Sonrise Mercantile in 1978.

Some fine moments on this four-man outfit’s rural rock record. The dreadful country twang of the opening «Hear The Light» scores high, as does the cowpoke «Amen Again» with its plunking banjo and quirky wah-wah guitar. Songs like the excellent «Suffering Servant» and the hard rock attempt «No Sir» draw comparisons to the open-aired progressive country rock of UK’s Canaan, complete with potent fuzz acid guitar leads. The closing «The Watchman» also slips in a smidgeon of fuzz. The residual tunes can sometimes be a bit lacklustre, descending into the ridiculous for the novelty «Wiener Song» (“I want to be a child of God, not a hotdog”). Pedal steel here and there adds to the rural element. Female backing vocalists include Diane Tong, who also supplies the banjo. Cool homemade-looking cover art of an angel reading a Bible. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th Edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Hear The Light”
A2. “Wiener Song”
A3. “No Sir”
A4. “Amen Again”
A5. “Suffering Servant”

Side Two
B1. “People Had A Mind”
B2. “Apropos”
B3. “Psalm 121”
B4. “The Watchman”