From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2007)

Montgomery Gentry
Origin	Lexington, Kentucky Danville, Kentucky
Genre(s)	Country Hard Rock
Years active	1999-Present
Label(s)	Columbia Records
Associated acts	John Michael Montgomery
Website	montgomerygentry.com
Members
Eddie Montgomery - vocals Troy Gentry - rhythm guitar, vocals

Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of Eddie Montgomery (born Gerald Edward Montgomery in Danville, Kentucky on September 30, 1963) and Troy Gentry (born Troy Lee Gentry in Lexington, Kentucky on April 5, 1967). Eddie is the brother of John Michael Montgomery, a country music artist who had considerable crossover success in the 1990s and 2000s; both brothers, along with Troy Gentry, were originally members of the same band in the early 1990s.

In 1999, Montgomery Gentry signed to Columbia Records, releasing their debut album Tattoos & Scars that year. The album produced five hit singles on the Billboard country charts, and helped the duo to garner a Duo of the Year award from the Country Music Association in 2000. Between 1999 and the present, Montgomery Gentry has charted twenty-one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, three of which have reached Number One. The duo has also recorded five studio albums, plus a Greatest Hits package; three of their albums have been certified platinum, and three have been certified gold.

Contents 1 Bio 2 Legal troubles 3 Awards 4 Band Members 5 Discography 5.1 Albums 5.2 Singles 6 References 7 External links

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, Troy 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.^[1]

On November 27, 2006, Gentry pleaded guilty to a charge of falsely tagging a bear as if it had been killed in the wild. ^[2] 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 caged 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.”^[3]

This section does not cite any references or sources. Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (November 2007)

• 1999 - ACM Top New Vocal Duo/Group
• 2000 - CCMA SOCAN Song of the Year
• 2000 - CMA Vocal Duo of the Year

This section does not cite any references or sources. Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (November 2007)

• Eddie Montgomery - Lead and Harmony Vocals
• Troy Gentry - Guitars, Lead and Harmony Vocals
• Frank Bowers - Lead Guitar
• Jimmy Matajek - Acoustic Guitar
• Randy Sorrels - Steel Guitar
• Bo Garrett - Lead Guitar
• Eddie Kilgallon - Keyboards (former member of Ricochet)
• Andy Bowers - Bass Guitar
• Tony Hammons - Drums
• Billy Moore - FOH Engineer
• Alan Ditch - Sound Crew

Year	Album	US Country	Billboard 200	RIAA
1999	Tattoos & Scars	10	131	Platinum
2001	Carrying On	6	49	Gold
2002	My Town	3	26	Platinum
2004	You Do Your Thing	2	10	Platinum
2005	Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005	2	20	Gold
2006	Some People Change	5	23	Gold
2007	Super Hits

Year	Title	Chart Positions		Album
		US Country	US Hot 100
1999	"Hillbilly Shoes"	13	62	Tattoos & Scars
	"Lonely and Gone"	5	46
2000	"Daddy Won't Sell the Farm"	17	79
	"Self Made Man"	31
	"All Night Long" (w/ Charlie Daniels)	31
2001	"Merry Christmas from the Family"	38		Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005
	"She Couldn't Change Me"	2	37	Carrying On
2002	"Cold One Comin' On"	23
	"Didn't I"	45		We Were Soldiers Soundtrack
	"My Town"	5	40	My Town
2003	"Speed"	5	47
	"Hell Yeah"	4	45
	"The Truth About Men" (Tracy Byrd w/ Andy Griggs, Blake Shelton and Montgomery Gentry)	13	77	The Truth About Men (Tracy Byrd album)
2004	"If You Ever Stop Loving Me"	1	30	You Do Your Thing
	"You Do Your Thing"	22
2005	"Gone"A	3	53
	"Something to Be Proud Of"	1	41
	"She Don't Tell Me To"	5	62	Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005
2006	"Some People Change"	7	57	Some People Change
2007	"Lucky Man"	1	65
	"What Do Ya Think About That"B	4	59

• ^A "Gone" also peaked at #92 on the US Pop 100.
• ^B Current single.

• Official Sony website
• Montgomery Gentry at All Music Guide
• CMT page