That Old Mountain
Songwriter Byron Hill is originally from the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina but settled in Nashville in 1978 where he had been pitching his songs since 1976. Since then, his songs have been picked up and recorded by a long list of both bluegrass and country artists to include Special Consensus, Lonesome River Band, Seldom Scene, Rhonda Vincent, Darin and Brooke Aldridge, George Jones, George Strait, Reba McIntire, Randy Travis, Keith Whitley, and many, many others.
Hill was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Now this new seven-cut project is a collection of Hill’s songs co-written with Glen Duncan. He is accompanied in the studio by Cody Kilby (guitar), Evan Winsor (bass), Jonah Horton (mandolin), Tim Crouch (fiddle), and Scott Vestal (banjo). Hill sings the vocals and plays guitar and Irish Flute. Selections include the cute “Mountain Folks Are Always High,” also “Younger,” “The Thinker,” “Nobody Knows But Me,” “But Not Today,” “The Storm,” and the title cut “That Old Mountain.” Hill has a pleasant voice and the backing musicians and vocals make this a very nice collection of his songs.
