Treat recorded the honest sounds of his bluegrass band with help from bassist Geoff Saunders (Sierra Hull), who produced the record with support from the band. Joining them were engineer Ben Sanders, mandolinist Oliver Craven (The Stray Birds), banjo player Frank Evans, and award-winning fiddlers Nate Leath (David Grisman, Sierra Ferrell) and Julian Pinelli (BenSol lee). With only one rehearsal, the group relied on instinct and first takes in the recording studio, a move that highlighted the authenticity and efficiency at the core of classic bluegrass music.  

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 rural surroundings. Years later, he salutes those influences with Wild Mystic Mountain, an inventive 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.

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. Laced with acoustic guitar, upright bass, fiddle, mandolin, and banjo, this is aN album 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.