Dan Montgomery

Singer-songwriter Dan Montgomery will be releasing his seventh album Cast-Iron Songs and
Torch Ballads April 7. It was recorded at The Shack in the Back studio in Memphis, TN with
Montgomery and Robert Mache producing. It’s being issued on 12” vinyl LP, digital download
and via streaming services by Fantastic Yes Records.
It’s not unusual for an artist to signal a “return to their roots” a few albums into a career. Usually
this brings out mandolins, banjos, and variations of the folk tradition. Cast-Iron Songs and
Torch Ballads is NOT that.
After six critically acclaimed Americana albums later, Montgomery reconnected with the raw
rock he played in his youth. “I came into possession of a Danelectro, plugged it into an amp and
new songs immediately came pouring out. And they were songs with riffs. It was wild to
experience my current singer/songwriter self, meeting up with that Classic Rock kid from the
past. But it felt totally natural. I knew right away that I had to book time and cut an album with
my band while the moment was hot. And I did.”
Dan’s roots may not be folksy and down home but they are no less real. Coming of age in South
Jersey in the early Seventies, he cut his teeth gigging at dances and parties when he was fourteen.
“I was the youngest in the band,” says Montgomery. “The first songs I played on stage were by
Grand Funk, Bad Company, and Bachman Turner Overdrive. It was wild. At one of our gigs a
guy showed up with a gun because our drummer was fooling around with someone’s wife. And
he was only a junior in high school!” The time and the place were ripe for Dan to begin his
musical education, performing what is now called Classic Rock. “It was just new rock back
then, pre-Freebird rock. I loved it.”
Ultimately, Dan began writing his own songs and quickly found this environment to be unsuited
for his compositions. “I became really serious about lyrics and that flew in the face of dancing
and fist fighting so I began playing solo on the local coffeehouse circuit. It was great. I learned a
lot about folk and country songwriting and eventually, my electric guitar began to gather more
and more dust.”

 

 

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