{"id":48374,"date":"2025-07-03T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=48374"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:06:23","slug":"montgomery-gentrys-eddie-montgomery-talks-roots-music-and-what-fans-can-expect-at-auglaize-county-fair-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/montgomery-gentrys-eddie-montgomery-talks-roots-music-and-what-fans-can-expect-at-auglaize-county-fair-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery Gentry\u2019s Eddie Montgomery Talks Roots, Music, and What Fans Can Expect at Auglaize County Fair Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With the Auglaize County Fair just around the corner, country fans across the region are gearing up for what\u2019s shaping up to be one of the summer\u2019s biggest nights: Montgomery Gentry featuring Eddie Montgomery, live on Saturday, August 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday morning, Eddie Montgomery himself joined Dave and Victoria on 92.1 The Frog for a candid, heartfelt conversation about his journey in country music \u2014 and why this show means so much to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThanks for having me, man,\u201d Eddie said with a warm laugh. \u201cHow y\u2019all doing this morning?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eddie\u2019s country roots run deep. He started out behind the drums in his dad\u2019s band while his mom kept time on her own kit. \u201cThe bartenders were our babysitters,\u201d he joked. \u201cWe grew up in honky-tonks and probably saw a few things we shouldn\u2019t have\u2014but we learned a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201880s, Eddie teamed up with his brother John Michael Montgomery and friend Troy Gentry to start a band. At the time, Eddie was still playing drums, but it didn\u2019t take long before he moved out front and the trio started turning heads across Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When John Michael landed a deal with Atlantic Records, Eddie and Troy kept the music going\u2014playing small-town bars, doing charity gigs, and slowly building something bigger. \u201cWe didn\u2019t wait on Nashville to put it together. We built it on our own, and eventually Nashville came to us in Lexington,\u201d Eddie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That kind of grassroots grit defined Montgomery Gentry from day one. \u201cMe and T-Roy, what you saw was what you got. We were a little wild, a little rowdy, and every time we walked into Sony Columbia, they\u2019d go, \u2018Uh oh, here comes Montgomery Gentry.\u2019 The name stuck\u2014and so did we.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, for Eddie, continuing the music without Troy hasn\u2019t been easy. \u201cHe loved life,\u201d Eddie said quietly. \u201cWe knew each other longer than we knew our wives. We got each other in and out of trouble more times than I can count. But we made a promise\u2014over a little Jim Beam\u2014that if one of us went down, the other would keep the name going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, that\u2019s exactly what Eddie is doing\u2014with the same band that\u2019s been with him for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when it comes to fans? \u201cWe never called them fans,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re friends. And they\u2019ve had our backs since \u2018Tattoos & Scars.\u2019 As long as they still want to hear us, we\u2019ll be out there singing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montgomery Gentry featuring Eddie Montgomery hits the Auglaize County Fair grandstand on Saturday, August 2nd, with Brother Believe Me opening the night. Visit auglaizecountyfair.org\/tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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