In a new interview, LuckymanEddie talks recording his first solo album since Troy Gentry, his longtime musical partner in Montgomery Gentry, died in a helicopter crash.
via Zoom. “With ‘Alive and Well,’ I’m talking about my two sons and T-Roy [his nickname for Gentry]. It was opening up my soul and it kind of helped me a little bit. I ain’t going to lie about it and that’s the stuff that I tried to write about -- the good, bad, and ugly, and the party on the weekend.”
Montgomery’s home backs up to a golf course, and soon he was feeding everyone from golfers to the mail carriers. “If a FedEx guy or mailman would come up, we’d fix them a hamburger or steak,” he says. “Whatever we were fixing at the time. It’s still going on. Eddie’s Garage is what it’s called. Somebody made me a big neon sign for it.”
Montgomery takes great pride in the fact that their band, The Wild Bunch, plays on his solo record instead of the standard Nashville practice of using session musicians. “Me and T had been fighting for a long time to get them on there -- because we thought they were that good. I told the label, ‘Let’s do three or four cuts, and if it don’t work, then we’ll trash it. I’ll pay for it and we’ll go on.
Another personal song on the album is “My Son,” a song Montgomery co-wrote with Gordon that is featured on the soundtrack of the western, starring Tim Blake Nelson and Trace Adkins. “I got to thinking about my sons, and me and Noah got to talking. The next thing I know, we had that song written,” Montgomery recalls. “I’ve got a bunch of boys and of course I lost a couple of them. [I was] just trying to think, ‘What do I tell my sons? And what did my old man tell me?’ So that’s how that come out.
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