Even though he's keeping traditional country music at his foundation, he's always working to improve his vocals, and to take on songs with more emotional nuance and weight. In the meantime, he's walking a delicate balance between reverence for old music and momentum and innovation in his own music. "Kentucky's where my heart is, always will be," he acknowledges. That love of home is a common touch point for any traditional-leaning country act, and all the more so for a performer like Montgomery, who opened his career with a hometown song, "Simple Town." Montgomery doesn't feel compelled to make sure there's a hometown track on every project he puts out, though he's never opposed to the idea.
"But I can also have people from the horse industry, the bourbon industry, or whatever it might be."īefore this series, the singer says, he knew about the horse industry - one of Kentucky's signature industries - "just enough to be dangerous," but the conversations he has had as part of his Whiskey Wednesdays series has deepened his love for and connection to the place he comes from. I could have my future brother-in-law, Travis Denning on," Montgomery notes. "It was something where I could talk about music - I could have dad and Eddie. But inspiration comes from surprising places, and part of Montgomery's growth has come from an unexpected, and not directly musical, place: His Whiskey Wednesday video series, which started out as an Instagram Live series and moved to being filmed more formally in a bar owned by a friend of Montgomery's in his home state. The most obvious one was the simple sweat equity he put into his craft, logging studio time and booking the sharpest musicians in the game to help him bring his songs to life. There were several different factors that helped him bring that vision into focus. but I've had some years under my belt, some ups and downs, and it's just good for me to finally see the vision." "Obviously, I wanna continue growing as an artist," Montgomery clarifies, ". "These next songs, I'm not gonna say I'm there, but I feel like I've really figured out what I wanna do. "Every project, it just seems like it's getting more traditional, more traditional, more traditional," he continues. "It's the perfect way to say, 'Hey, we finally figured it out.' This is the direction we're going," the singer explained to Taste of Country in March, as he was putting the finishing touches on his new project. One of two tracks he co-wrote for his upcoming batch of songs, "Work to Do" is an introduction to a sound that Montgomery says he's finally perfected. The singer says his next project is his stone-cold countriest to date, and that all starts with his new single, "Work to Do."
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