Blue Mountain

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Hundreds of miles away from the hustle and bustle of big city life lies a house on a dirt road.  It's across a pond that's just up the road from Junior Kimbrough's juke joint.  The air smells sweet, the water is fresh and life moves at a slower pace.  Welcome to life in Oxford, MS ‑ the small town that the three members of Blue Mountain proudly call home.  Here, in this tranquil college town, the trio has carefully honed its ebullient rocking style, carefully bathing it with a wealth of country and blues influences and heaps of Southern charm.

Blue Mountain music has always been a family thing.  Laurie and Cary first met when Laurie moved from New Orleans to Oxford to join her twin brother John and start the Hilltops with him and Cary.  The Hilltops released an album, Holler, on cassette only in 1989 and then one self-titled CD before John left to join Uncle Tupelo and then eventually Wilco.  Laurie and Cary got married and started Blue Mountain.  They released one album on their own and it brought them to the attention of Roadrunner and led to the subsequent release of Dog Days and now Homegrown.  Frank joined as the permanent drummer in 1994 after seeing them play a number of times in clubs throughout Mississippi.  The last member to join the band was their dog Willie.  They found him as a puppy while on tour and have not been separated from him since.