Counting
Leslie West
's July 1969 solo album,
Flowers of Evil
was the fourth album in 28 months for
West
and
Felix Pappalardi
's
Mountain
, and the pace was catching up with them:
was only half of a studio album with five new songs, its second side filled up with a live 25-minute
rock & roll
medley and encore of
's sole Top 40 hit,
"Mississippi Queen."
This was unmistakable evidence that
had run their course. There would be live albums, compilations, and reunions over the succeeding years, but
marked the creative end of a surprisingly short-lived enterprise. [Originally released in November 1971 as
Windfall
5501,
was reissued on April 16, 1996, as
Columbia/Legacy
52749.] ~ William Ruhlmann