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The Lil Smokies Bio:Blending virtuosic instrumental acrobatics with riveting lyrical craftsmanship, The Lil Smokies have earned a reputation as one of the most electrifying acts in modern American roots music thanks to their exhilarating live show and critically acclaimed studio output. Since forming on the streets of Missoula, Montana, where the group got its start busking back in 2009, the band has performed everywhere from Red Rocks to The Rialto and captivated festival audiences at Telluride, High Sierra, LOCKN, Freshgrass, FloydFest, and countless more. Their latest album, 2020s Tornillo, showcases the hard touring four-piece at its most adventurous, teaming up with producer Bill Reynolds (The Avett Brothers, Band Of Horses) for a genre-bending joyride from the hills of Laurel Canyon to the wide-open deserts of West Texas.Town Mountain Bio:Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, Town Mountain is the sum of all its vast andintricate influences this bastion of alt-country rebellion and honky-tonk attitudepushed through the hardscrabble Southern Appalachian lens of its origin.For us, its all about the interaction between the audience and the band doingwhatever we can onstage to facilitate that two-way street of energy and emotion, saysmandolinist Phil Barker. Whether its a danceable groove or a particular lyric in a song,were projecting what were going through in our daily lives, and we feel that otherpeople can attest to that, as well its all about making that connection.Amid a renewed sense of self is the groups latest album, Lines in the Levee, a collage of sound and scope running the gamut of the musical spectrum in the same template offreedom and focus found in the round-robin fashion of the musical institution that isThe Band a solidarity also found in the incendiary live shows Town Mountain is nowrevered for from coast-to-coast, this devil-may-care gang of strings and swagger.This is the sound weve been working towards since the inception of the band, saysguitarist Robert Greer. We realized we needed to do whats best for us. Were being true to ourselves. It isnt a departure, its an evolution the gate is wide open right now.