CD reviews : Mountain, Soul Asylum, Michael McDermott

Mountain,”Over The Top” (Floating World)- The muscular American hard rock outfit formed by bass player and former Cream collaborator Felix Pappalardi and larger than life guitar ace Leslie West in the late sixties may never really have fully captured the imagination of audiences on this side of the Atlantic, although one of their finest creations, “Nantucket Sleighride,” was used as the signature tune of ITV’s long defunct politics show, “Weekend World.”