High Top Mountain
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| Studio album by Sturgill Simpson | ||||||||||
| Released | June 11, 2013 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2012–13 | |||||||||
| Genre | Country | |||||||||
| Length | 37:33 | |||||||||
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| Producer | Dave Cobb | |||||||||
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High Top Mountain is the debut studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson. The album was produced by Dave Cobb and was released on June 11, 2013. Simpson self-funded the album. The record is named after a cemetery near Jackson where many of his family are buried.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated High Top Mountain 3 1/2 stars out of 5, comparing its sound favorably to Waylon Jennings. Erik Ernst of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel also compared it to Jennings, saying that it had "rich vintage sounds, heartbreaking ballads and juke-joint ramblers".
The album did not received much attention on its release and debuted at No. 47 on the Top Country Albums chart. It re-entered the chart after the release of Simpson's second album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, eventually reaching No. 31 on Top Country Albums for chart dated November 8, 2014. The album has sold 105,600 copies in the United States as of January 2017.
As of July 2014, the album has sold 14,000 copies in the US.
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