Town Mountain

The first two albums were independent releases: Original Bluegrass and Roots Country (2007) and Heroes & Heretics (2008). Heroes & Heretics was recorded at the Rubber Room Studio in Chapel Hill with Greer on guitar and lead vocals, Langlais on banjo, Phil Barker on mandolin, Barrett Smith on bass and Annie Staninec on fiddle, Smith, Barker and Langlais singing the harmonies. Its thirteen tracks included “Snowin’ on Raton” and “I’m on Fire,” with Sam Wharton as a guest on guitar.

The band then signed with Pinecastle, which issued Steady Operator (2011) and Leave the Bottle (2012), both produced by Mike Bub. The lineup on the second was Greer, Langlais, Barker, Bobby Britt on fiddle and Jon Stickley on bass and lead guitar, and its songs, all from inside the band, included “Up the Ladder,” “Lawdog” and Britt’s “Four Miles.” At the 2013 IBMA Momentum Awards, which recognize artists early in their careers, Town Mountain was named Band of the Year and Greer Vocalist of the Year. A concert album, Live at the Isis, followed in 2014.

Southern Crescent, the fifth studio album and the first release on the new LoHi Records label, came out on 1 April 2016. Dirk Powell produced and engineered it at his studio, the Cypress House, in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, where the band recorded live in one room with few overdubs. Greer, Langlais, Barker, Britt and the bassist Nick DiSebastian played on it, and every member contributed songs, Barker, Langlais and Greer most of them. It entered the Billboard Bluegrass chart at number four, and in June 2016 the band made its Grand Ole Opry debut, followed two weeks later by its first appearance at the Ryman Auditorium.

New Freedom Blues, released on 26 October 2018, was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville with Caleb Klauder producing, and was the first time the band brought a drummer, Miles Miller, into the studio. Its closing song, “Down Low,” was written by Langlais with Tyler Childers, who sings on it. The lineup at the time was Greer, Langlais, Barker, Britt and the bassist Zach Smith, and the band toured with Childers that December.

Lines in the Levee (2022) was the band’s first album for New West Records. Langlais left at the start of 2023, and the six covers on Dance Me Down Easy: The Woodstock Sessions, a New West EP recorded at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, New York, among them the Rolling Stones’ “Sweet Virginia” and the Kinks’ “Strangers,” were the band’s first recordings without him; pedal steel took a large part. Barker described the move as one “into the electric realm.”

In August 2025 the band announced that it would stop touring after its fall run, and it played its last scheduled show on 26 October 2025 at the Ardmore Music Hall in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. New West released a four-song live EP recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, Live from Drop of Sun, in November 2025.