Monte Montgomery

Home Page
http://www.montemontgomery.com/

Store
http://www.montemontgomery.com/cgi-bin/merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=MG&Category_Code=CD

Listen
http://www.montemontgomery.com/listen.htm

Reviews

Austin City Limits
"Monte Montgomery blows people away. There is no other way to describe it... Like Michael Jordan defying the impossible with an air-filled leather ball on the hardwood, Montgomery makes his strings produce sounds that obliterate notions of what one human is capable of pulling-off on this simple instrument. Glance around the room wherever he plays and witness wall-to-wall looks of sheer slack-jawed astonishment."

GUITAR ONE MAGAZINE
BEST IN THE U.S. - THE TOP 10 BEST (UNDISCOVERED) GUITARISTS IN AMERICA
Monte was the first artist chosen for this column (the first to make our jaws drop!) His scorching yet musical solos combined with great pop sensibility in his songwriting is what caught our ear. But when you consider that he's playing those Van Halen-esque solos on an acoustic guitar with distortion, it becomes a slam dunk!"

Acoustic Guitar Magazine
"Monte Montgomery is not your typical up-and-coming guitar god. His exquisitely crafted,melodically and rhythmically sophisticated pop songs suggest the best of Fleetwood Mac, Squeeze, and the Police, while just happening to integrate the most mind-boggling guitar work in the state of Texas. In his amazing live performances, backed by drummer Phil Bass and bassist Chris Maresh, Montgomery completely lets go. "Somehow those three minute pop songs become 12 minute sagas," he jokes. He picks and frets with all ten fingers at once, stretching chord positions across an alarming six frets while playing rhythm strokes,melody, and bass lines, all the while casually tossing in faster-than-the-naked-eye harmonics, two-handed tapping, bass-style string slapping, percussive string stops, guitar-torturing neck bends, and guitar-body percussion. His fast and precise plectrum playing, meanwhile, leaves even most electric guitar players gasping."

Sample Songs

It's not my intent to rip off any musician.  Instead, if you like what you hear I hope you would consider picking up some of Monte's CDs.  There's a link above to more samples and to his store. Monte travels across mostly the south but often gets as far north as Chicago and Wisconsin.  Check out his tour page on his site and see if he's appearing near you anytime soon. It will be the best concert you ever see for the buck.