High Top Mountain is the debut studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson.

[2] The record is named after a cemetery near Jackson, Kentucky where many of his family are buried.

[3] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated High Top Mountain 3 1/2 stars out of 5, comparing its sound favorably to Waylon Jennings.

[4] 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".

[6] It re-entered the chart after the release of Simpson's second album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, eventually reaching No.