★★★★★
With their blend of southern rock musical textures with traditional country lyrics and values, Montgomery Gentry has successfully carved out a niche in country music that was up until a year or two ago basically their own. Success, however, brings along the willingness of other artists and labels to follow with their own version of Montgomery Gentry's style...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
A tuneful, hard-hitting case study in the conservatism of the "rock" claimed by studio hotshots wherever popular music is manufactured in our once-great land. It's possible to imagine the identical beats and licks vitalized by, say, a younger John Anderson. But mixing them with male chauvinist reaction makes more sense, and turns them rancid...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2010-06-11
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
For Montgomery Gentry, sentimentality and belligerence aren't contradictoryqualities. The opening title track of Some People Change tenderly celebrates tolerance,sobriety, and redemption...followed by the beer-swillin',gun-celebratin' "Hey Country," possibly the 10,000th pandering "hicksrule" anthem country's given us this year...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
This Kentucky duo, made up of Eddie Montgomery (John Michael's brother) and Troy Gentry, play what they call "pure whupass country," a testosterone-laden brand of hooky, hardcore fare spiced with heavy Southern rock. "Hillbilly Shoes," a rowdy declaration of backwoods pride propelled by searing electric guitars, is already making tracks at radio. Maybe country's done been polite too long. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Montgomery Gentry's 1999 debut, Tattoos & Scars, was a testosterone-powered kick in the ass to a country scene overflowing with crossover divas and faux cowboys crooning endless paeans of undying devotion. On their second CD, Carrying On, the rough n' rowdy duo continues to walk in the bootprints of their outlaw godfathers: Charlie Daniels, Hank Jr. and Waylon Jennings -- and to make sure you don't forget those roots, they even cover Waylon's 1974 classic "Ramblin' Man...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Eddie Montgomery has a raspy growl, voiced with what I imagine to be a naughty, laughing smile, that he does during each of the first few songs on Montgomery Gentry's new, sixth album Back When I Knew It All. It's often almost in the background. With Troy Gentry, who has the more polished singer's voice in the forefront, Montgomery will rasp a deep "Oh yeah" for emphasis. You can read a lot within that growl, about the duo and their music. It implies a streak of wild...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
The core of Montgomery Gentry's musical appeal lies in the duo's vocal contrast, alternating lead singing between the gruff low tenor of Eddie Montgomery and the sweeter high tenor of Troy Gentry. The core of their cultural appeal lies in another dichotomy, between the hell-raising and church-going aspects of stereotypical Southern rural life...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
On album number four, Troy and Eddie make no major breaks with the tried and true formula that weds solid modern country music to the long raucous tradition of redneck rock. But then again, they don't need to. It's true, they streamline it, rock it up, and bring in some more rock & roll, but essentially, these cats lay down 12 very solid tracks written by a slew of Nash Vegas songwriters, most notably Rivers Rutherford, Jeffrey Steele, and Bob DiPiero, who wrote the lion's share of the set...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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