Glory Hope Mountain
Overview
 
Glory Hope Mountain is a concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 by Canadian indie folk
Indie folk
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock. A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Beck, Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith...

 band The Acorn
The Acorn
The Acorn is a Canadian indie folk band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2003. Their songs have charted on Canadian campus charts and have been in rotation on CBC Radio 3 and The Verge....

, released 25 September 2007 on Paper Bag Records
Paper Bag Records
Paper Bag Records is a Canadian independent record label and artist-management company, founded in 2002 and based in Toronto, Ontario.-History:...

. It is their second full-length.

The album was recorded and produced by Jarrett Bartlett.

The album is based on the life of Rolf Klausener’s Honduran
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

-born mother, Gloria Esperanza Montoya, and the title is a rough translation of her name.
All lyrics were written by Rolf Carlos Klausener.
Quotations

Only in America.

I can't believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Thank god for money.

 
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