Kevin Montgomery

 

 

Kevin Montgomery grew up on Nashville's Music Row, as a child of parents whose careers crossed over from country music to the early, seminal days of American rock 'n' roll.  While the contemporary yet timeless feel of Kevin's own music is strongly influenced by the “California Country-Rock” of artists like Gram Parsons, The Eagles, and Roger McGuinn, his deeply resonant song-writing recalls the Americana-flavoured storytelling of Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne.

Kevin Montgomery has spent the last four years of a decade-long career touring relentlessly and building an almost cult-like following in Britain and Europe.

Kevin's father, Bob Montgomery, was an early song-writing and collaborative partner of Buddy Holly.  By the time Kevin was born, his dad was producing records by Bobby Goldsboro and writing songs like the often-covered “Misty Blue” and “Back in Baby's Arms”, made famous by Patsy Cline (who was their next-door neighbour).

Meanwhile, Kevin's mother, Carol, had a thriving career as a Nashville session vocalist, singing back up on pop classics like Elvis Presley's “Suspicious Minds” and Robert Knight's “Everlasting Love”.  “Many evenings, my dad would come home with records he was in the midst of producing,” Kevin remembers.  “He'd put our big stereo on full blast and we'd listen to what he'd done that day.  From a very young age, I was picking records apart, trying to identify the different instruments.  My parents never pushed me to become a musician, it just happened naturally.”

A&M released Kevin's debut CD, “Fear Nothing”, in 1994 to critical acclaim and, after a year and a half of touring with Peter Himmelman, Sheryl Crow and David Crosby, he ended up back in Nashville.  Kevin stayed on the radar by working on the 1996 Buddy Holly tribute album, “Not Fade Away: Remembering Buddy Holly”.  He recorded the song “Wishing” (written by his dad) as a duet with Mary Chapin Carpenter (Bob Montgomery co-produced the track).

Kevin was increasing his profile as a songwriter.  Martina McBride recorded “I Won't Close My Eyes”, from “Fear Nothing”, for her 1997 double-platinum selling album, “Evolution”. Later, Juice Newton covered Kevin's song “Red Blooded American Boy” (changing the gender reference to “girl”) for her 1999 release, “American Girl”.  Kevin sang backing vocals on Lee Ann Womack's “I Know Why the River Runs” for her platinum selling album, “I Hope You Dance”.

“2:30am” and “Another Long Story” were released in 2003, followed by “Kevin Montgomery and the Roadtrippers Live! From Glasgow” in 2005 and “True” in 2006.

To support the CDs, Kevin plans to continue his extensive touring schedule, both acoustically and with his band.  "We'll be going all over the US and all over the world, really," he says.  Currently, the video for “Another Long Story” is in regular rotation at VH1 Country and the Great American Country video channel as well.

When an artist's music is honest, authentic and heart-felt, you don't really need anyone else to tell you it's the real thing, because you can feel it.

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