Before becoming one of East Nashville's most genre-bending songwriters, Charlie Treat grew up on a farm in New England, listening to old-school crooners whose songs reflected his own rural surroundings. Years later, he salutes those influences with Into The Wild Mystic Mountain, an imaginative bluegrass album that finds its creator — backed by some of the genre's best young pickers and soon-to-be legends —  working in the raw, rootsy tradition of greats like Woody Guthrie, Hank Sr, Bill Monroe, and Flatt and Scruggs. 

Laced with acoustic guitar, upright bass, fiddle, mandolin, and banjo, Into The Wild Mystic Mountain is a record for front porches, campfires, and hollers. It's also Treat's most autobiographical album to date, its bluegrass textures and heartfelt songwriting inspired in part by the year he spent alongside fellow Americana all-star Sierra Ferrell. There's imaginative storytelling at work here, too, with "Motor Motor" delivering a tale of a desperate man's flight from the cops, "The Squirrel Song" reimagining a drunken bar fight as a scuffle between two woodland creatures, and “Carrier Pigeon” examining the alienation of our technological world as well as the means to escape it.  At its core, though, Into The Wild Mystic Mountain is anchored by the relationship that brought Treat back to the old-time sounds of American roots music. 

This is 21st century bluegrass music with a vintage heart, glued together by a storyteller, songwriter, and poet whose music redraws the lines between genre and generation. 

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