Montgomery Gentry Album: “You Do Your Thing”
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Montgomery Gentry: Eddie Montgomery, Troy Montgomery (vocals).
<p>Additional personnel include: Hank Williams Jr. (vocals); David Grissom (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Steve Sheehan (acoustic guitar); Tom Bukovac (electric guitar); Reese Wynans (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Michael Rhodes (bass instrument); Shannon Forest (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Tom Hambridge, Bekka Bramlett (background vocals).
<p>Recording information: 2004.
<p>Montgomery Gentry has repeatedly topped the country charts with an unabashedly traditional brand of country-rock that keeps one foot firmly planted on each side of the genre's fence. Celebrating the classic Southern virtues of unflinching patriotism and small-town pride, the duo puts a positive spin on the redneck-rebel image of artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams Jr., delivering a sound that's equally at home in the barn dance and the biker bar. On YOU DO YOUR THING, Montgomery Gentry brings its down-home sentiments even closer to the fore. The title track serves as something of a conservative manifesto, with Eddie Montgomery proclaiming his intention to pray, spend money, and engage in corporal punishment whenever and however he pleases. Similarly, "It's All Good" applauds a small community's staunch defense of the simple life in the face of encroaching modernity. Meanwhile, the duo is backed by an earthy melange of raging guitars, booming drums, and weepy steel, all of which lend the singers' sentiments a forceful authenticity.
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UPC:827969055823
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Format:CD
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Type:Performer
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Genre:Country - Contemporary Country
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Artist:Montgomery Gentry
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Guest Artists:Hank Williams, Jr.; Bekka Bramlett; David Grissom
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Producer:Blake Chancey; Rivers Rutherford; J
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Label:Columbia (USA)
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Distributed:Sony Music Distribution (
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Release Date:2004/05/18
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Original Release Year:2004
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Discs:1
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Mono / Stereo:Stereo
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Studio / Live:Studio
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
- They do their thing: great country music!
Montgomery Gentry's fourth album finds them still rockin and rollin country style, but with a bit more of a sentimental edge...and it's quite possibly their best yet.
Yeah, there's still overpowering masculinity (not a bad thing). "Gone" is a hard-edged tribute to a love lost, while the southern-rock flavored title track is a "leave me alone" anthem.
Yet, sensitivity abounds. "She Loved Me" and "Something to Be Proud Of" are both moving and reminiscent. Even the first single, "If You Ever Stop Loving Me"--which tells of a rough-and-tumble outlaw--shows that behind every man is a supportive woman.
"You Do Your Thing" is a superb CD from this duo. Eddie and Troy know what their fans like, and they deliver...and yet, the music they make is GOOD. They're both incredible singers, even though they haven't yet scored a #1. This CD might rememdy that, because it's just what radio's been needing: commercially-successful outlaw music. You go on and do your thing, and purchase this album; there'll be no regrets about it, I promise.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
- Montgomery Gentry ROCKS!!
I wasn't even planning on buying this CD. I just happened to see it at Target one time for $10, so I bought it. My favorite songs are "Gone", "If You Ever Stop Loving Me", "If It's the Last Thing I Do", and "She Loved Me". "If It's the Last Thing I Do" sounds quite a bit like the Brooks & Dunn version, but I think MG's is better :)
The only song I have a gripe about is "I Got Drunk". It's really stupid to me, but that's just my opinion. Good tune, bad lyrics.
MG really put their heart and feeling in this CD, and it shows. They made some GREAT songs on this one.
All in all, You Do Your Thing is an AWESOME Cd. It's got some real gems, as well as the great songs you hear on the radio like "Gone". It's a MUST HAVE for any country collection!
R. Hawks (Springfield, MO) - February 25, 2005
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
- Montgomery Gentry At Their Best!!!
The latest Montgomery Gentry CD "You Do Your Thing" was excellent! Some of the newer country CD's I have purchased have just a few songs that I like. Every single song on "You Do Your Thing" is simply amazing. There is such a variety of different meanings with their songs to mix up your feelings for Country music. I specially like the song "I Got Drunk". That is the trademark to us country boys in the Midwest! The best thing about this CD was it was released on my birthday last year. It was the very first thing I bought on my birthday. I had been anticipating May 18, 2004 for some time! I also made sure I bought the "You Do Your Thing" DVD that came out on April 20, 2004.
Montgomery Gentry is by far my favorite country music duo. I am a member of the fan club on their official website. I first attended one of their concerts at National FFA Convention in Louisville, KY in 2001. I also got the pleasure of seeing them at the Missouri State Fair in 2004 with Gary Allan. I currently have tickets to see them at the Country Fever Fest in Pryor, OK in June. I currently own and love every single one of their CD's, but feel "You Do Your Thing" is one of the best! I am looking forward to many more new CD's that they will be coming out with!!!
- Couldn't get into it - way too country for me.
I tried but couldn't get into this music album. Way too country for me and nothing memorable. If you like country you might find it OK but it just wasn't for me. Thomas Burke (Somewheres between texas and louisiana) - August 08, 2005
- Best M&G to date (minus a song or two)
You do your thing is the followup to the charted selling cd "My Town". Another breath of fresh air from Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry.
Showing their influences of country,Southern Rock, and of all thing rap (record scratch in "If you ever stopped loving me") The duo pull it off this go around and make for a really enjoyable cd the whole thing thru. Unfortunately, M&G has a habit of slacking on songs toward the end of the cd (namely on "Carrying on" which to me ,other than a few songs was a filler till "My town")But this go around, with the exception of "I got Drunk" is a good album all the way thru. But be forwarned, they do have a habit of changing the groove they have going between songs and a few up beats go to a real slow one, so programming your Cd player would be your best bet with this CD.
The above mentioned "I got drunk" sounds like a song I would expect as a hidden track and not as a track on the cd. It is completely different than anything else on the CD IMO.
By the way, recognize a song on the CD "Last thing I do" and don't remember from where? It was a cd track on Brooks and Dunn's "steers and Stripes"cd and actually comparing Troy Gentry to Ronnie Dunn ,shows both have got the chops for this song.
My real rating on this would be closer to 4.7 or 4.8 but a 5 is close enough for me...
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