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Town Mountain

Asheville, North Carolina, string band Town Mountain performs at the 2013 Festival of the Bluegrass at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Season 18 Episode 6 Length 59:03 Premiere: 07/14/14

Jubilee: Town Mountain

Town Mountain thundered down from the hill of musically fertile Asheville, North Carolina, with a cultivated style that’s traditional bluegrass, but with a trucker hat grit that gives the band its distinct sound.

Consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Robert Greer, banjo player Jesse Langlais, bassist Nick DiSebastian, fiddle player Bobby Britt, and Phil Barker on mandolin, Town Mountain first started playing together during all-night jam sessions in the mid-2000s and has gone on to garner acclaim as IBMA Momentum Award recipients (2013 Band of the Year and 2013 Vocalist of the Year, for Robert Greer).

With three studio albums under their belt, including 2012’s “Leave the Bottle,” the band pays slight homage to their roots on the recordings, but has flexed their creative muscle with an ongoing catalog of original compositions that give a nod and a wink to quintessential bluegrass subjects: murder ballads, heart break, lonely highways, and even the outlaw moonshiner.

Here, the quintet burns through a collection of songs, delighting audiences with passionate, finger-bleeding strumming, at this live performance at the 2013 Festival of the Bluegrass in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Lonesome River Band

S18 E12 Length 58:18 Premiere Date 08/25/14

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S18 E11 Length 57:38 Premiere Date 08/18/14

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S18 E10 Length 56:33 Premiere Date 08/11/14

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S18 E9 Length 58:13 Premiere Date 08/04/14

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S18 E8 Length 58:43 Premiere Date 07/28/14

Kentucky Blue; Laurel River Line

S18 E7 Length 56:43 Premiere Date 07/21/14

Town Mountain

S18 E6 Length 59:03 Premiere Date 07/14/14

Blue Highway

S18 E5 Length 58:53 Premiere Date 07/07/14

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S18 E4 Length 57:53 Premiere Date 06/30/14

The Boxcars

S18 E3 Length 57:18 Premiere Date 06/23/14

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out

S18 E2 Length 57:58 Premiere Date 06/16/14

Masters of Bluegrass

S18 E1 Length 59:03 Premiere Date 06/09/14

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