Mississippi Queen was a huge top 40 hit when it came out, and was indeed on their debut album "Climbing" (Leslie West had released a self-titled solo album prior to that). Nantucket Sleighride (the song) was the title track from Mountain's 2nd album. The band was enormously popular for many years, and played their first major gig at none other than the original Woodstock festival.
A fair number of albums followed after that (Avalanch, Flowers of Evil, etc.) and the band broke up due to Felix Pappalardi's health and social difficulties with Steve Knight. West went solo after that (West, Bruce, and Laing, with ex-Cream Jack Bruce), and the Leslie West Band, with ex-Spooky Tooth Mick Jones on 2nd guitar, before he started Foreigner.
As to the question, haven't seen any hi-quality audio releases of the discs, though. Pity, 'cause the stuff is good (even though the children just don't get it since they weren't around at the time).
A fair number of albums followed after that (Avalanch, Flowers of Evil, etc.) and the band broke up due to Felix Pappalardi's health and social difficulties with Steve Knight. West went solo after that (West, Bruce, and Laing, with ex-Cream Jack Bruce), and the Leslie West Band, with ex-Spooky Tooth Mick Jones on 2nd guitar, before he started Foreigner.
As to the question, haven't seen any hi-quality audio releases of the discs, though. Pity, 'cause the stuff is good (even though the children just don't get it since they weren't around at the time).