"Monte Montgomery may be the greatest guitar player you've never heard. Hailed by Guitar One magazine as "one of the 10 best guitarists (you probably don't know) in America," Montgomery will bring his soulful guitar sounds to Shreveport's Red River Revel. Montgomery is a multi-talented musician with strong composition, poignant lyrics paired with edgy vocals and six- string picking comparable to the likes of late Austin guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan. "Deft fretwork; guitar virtuoso; superhuman picker; gifted; amazing; spellbinding; electrifying; a guitarist's guitarist; fresh and exciting; Austin's guitar god." His songs are well-written, well mixed and his guitar playing is absolutely awe-inspiring."
- Melissa L. Fertitt, Forum News



Heart Music

"Austin, Texas, has once again unleashed a phenomenal guitar slinger on the world. This time, however, the trouble comes on acoustic guitar. His impassioned attack evokes every great player he has ever loved. He slaps the neck like Michael Hedges, taps Van Halen-esque false harmonics, soars melodically like Eric Johnson and strums with the brutal attack of SRV. Montgomery has pushed the acoustic-electric further into the realm of virtuoso rock guitar than anybody before him."

- Jude Gold, Guitar Player Magazine

INDUCTEE to the 1998 MUSICIAN'S HALL OF FAME for the San Antonio Current magazine (March issue)


Monte Montgomery -Alvarez Unveils Monte Montgomery Signature Guitar

Alvarez Yairi MMY1 based on Montgomery's classic DY62C

January 24, 2004

"Alvarez Guitars introduced the Alvarez Yairi MMY1, based on Monte Montgomery's DY62C, which he bought in 1987 and has been beating ever since. As the result of his aggressive playing style, Monte has broken the neck of his original guitar four times, causing both himself and the Alvarez guitar shop ever-increasing frustration. The new MMY1 features a five-piece laminated neck which won't break, even under the intense stress of a Monte Montgomery performance.

The MMY1 features a hand-distressed solid cedar top designed to look like the current condition of Monte's original DY62C, as well as a special Monty Montgomery 12-fret mother of pearl inlay. The guitar features many of the same specs as the original DY62C, including the highly figured burled mahogany back and sides and a vintage style rosewood bridge. " Read more ...

"Monte Montgomery is not your typical up-and-coming guitar god... the most mind-boggling guitar work in the state of Texas. 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."  Artisdirect.com


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