Readers recommend: songs about mountains | Peter Kimpton

Bluegrass to country, Motown to soul and much more, it’s time to put on your musical boots, rope up and scale your shelves for songs that hit heady heights
“Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills,” said Dolly Parton, flashing that ever radiant smile, and cleverly refreshing both a cliche and a metaphor. Let us not forget also that mountains are sometimes amply twinned with valleys. Yet, hailing from Tennessee, Parton’s talent for songwriting has oft