Montgomery Gentry
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| Montgomery Gentry | |
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| Origin | Kentucky, USA |
| Genre(s) | Country |
| Years active | 1993-present |
| Label(s) | Columbia Nashville |
| Associated acts | John Michael Montgomery |
| Website | montgomerygentry.com |
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| Eddie Montgomery Troy Gentry |
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Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of Eddie Montgomery (brother of country singer John Michael Montgomery) and Troy Gentry.[1] Gentry and both Montgomery brothers originally comprised Early Tymz, a country band which had local success in clubs throughout the state of Kentucky. After John Michael Montgomery left for a solo career, Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry began performing as a duo. Both members of the duo alternate as lead vocalists.
Signed in 1999 to Columbia Records, the duo released its platinum-certified debut album Tattoos & Scars that year.[1] They have since recorded five more studio albums: Carrying On (2001), My Town (2002), You Do Your Thing (2004), Some People Change (2006), and Back When I Knew It All (2008) as well as a Greatest Hits package. These albums have produced more than twenty chart singles for the duo to date on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Number One hits "If You Ever Stop Loving Me", "Something to Be Proud Of" and "Lucky Man", as well as ten more Top Ten hits.
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[edit] Biography
Eddie Montgomery and his brother John lived in Garrard County, Kentucky. Before the duo's formation, Eddie and Troy sang together with Eddie's younger brother, John Michael Montgomery in a band called Early Tymz. In the early 1990s, John Michael left the group and started a highly successful solo career that is ongoing. Eddie and Troy, the remaining members of the group, then went through several name changes before they decided to call themselves Montgomery Gentry.
In 1994, Gentry won the Jim Beam National Talent Contest and he began to open for acts such as Patty Loveless, Tracy Byrd and John Michael Montgomery.
Gentry was unable to find a solo record deal, so he teamed up with Eddie Montgomery once again to form the duo Montgomery Gentry, debuting in 1999. The pair won the Vocal Duo of the Year award at the Country Music Association Awards in 2000.[2]
[edit] Legal issues
On November 27, 2006, Gentry pleaded guilty to a charge of falsely tagging a bear as if it had been killed in the wild. [3] It had actually been killed on a private game reserve. Under the plea agreement, he agreed to pay a $15,000 fine, give up hunting, fishing and trapping in Minnesota for 5 years, and forfeit both the bear hide and the bow used to shoot the animal in 2004.
A statement has been put up on the official Montgomery Gentry website. Troy Gentry quotes, “I did participate in improperly tagging the animal I shot, without realizing the seriousness of what I was doing. For that, I am truly sorry. I relied on the experts around me for guidance, and I regret that today. Not so much because I was fined and punished, but because it appears that I don’t have respect for the law. This has been a humbling experience for me, and one which I deeply regret.”[4]
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[edit] Band members
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- Eddie Montgomery - vocals
- Troy Gentry - vocals, rhythm guitar
- Frank Bowers - lead guitar
- Jimmy Matajek - guitar
- Randy Sorrels - steel guitar, lap steel
- Bo Garrett - guitar, mandolin
- Eddie Kilgallon - keyboards (former member of Ricochet)
- Andy Bowers - bass guitar
- Tony Hammons - drums, percussion
