All the songs fell out really fast.”Īrmed with this new batch of material, Montgomery congregated with his producer/guitarist Robert Mache and band including backing vocalist Candace Mache, bassist Tom Arndt and drummer James Cunningham at the latter’s Midtown’s studio, The Shack in the Back. But as soon as I got it, I started writing. Which is unusual - I never buy a guitar without playing it. “But then just on a whim, I got a 1959 Danelectro guitar online. “I thought I wasn’t going to be doing anything for a while,” he says. Given his family obligations it seemed unlikely Montgomery would be making another album. I retired from my job in August, and I’m mostly taking care of her.” “My whole world has been dealing with that. And the same week my wife had a stroke,” says Montgomery. “The record came out the week everything shut down for COVID. Memphis in May: Is new Tom Lee Park a good fit for Beale Street Music Fest? It was a bit like Twister How Memphis studio is planning for a rebirth. Memphis music: Ardent sets record straight on its future. Two more albums - 2014’s “Sin, Repent, Repeat” and 2017’s “Gone” - followed, then came his 2020 effort “Smoke and Mirrors (A Phonographic Memory),” released just as the world was about to enter the pandemic and as Montgomery’s own life was about to turn upside down. By the time 2010’s “You’ll Never Be a Bird” came out, Montgomery had built a small but strong following among critics and fans as a gifted storyteller focusing on those living in the margins of society.
His first solo album, the bleak, funny character study “Man From Out of State,” was released in 2003 he followed with a finely etched concept record called “Rosetta, please (a love story)” five years later.
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