Montgomery Gentry Folks Like Us
It’s been a few years and a few big challenges since we had new music from Montgomery Gentry. But this week, the wait is over, and the obstacles have been overcome. Eddie & Troy are back better than ever with their eighth album “Folks Like Us.” They sat down to talk about it with Country Countdown USA.
Talk about this song Folks Like Us: (Eddie) It’s just who we are, it’s who we’ve always been about growing up through the clubs, hearing everybody’s stories. (Troy) I knew this was a Montgomery Gentry song right out of the box. There’s not one lyric that’s not Montgomery Gentry. It covers all the bases, the American hardworking blue collar class, the military, our faith, family, everything we ever stood for. I knew this was a huge hit for us. (Eddie) It’s a work hard, play hard song, that’s what we are and America is.
One other bit of news that has happened since your last album is that Troy’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. How’s she doing? (Troy) She was diagnosed at the end of September, between stage 1 and stage 2, but as of today, she’s had meetings with her surgeon, they took four lymph nodes out and they came out clean, so she’s on her way to recovery.
An Eddie, you also had prostate cancer about five years ago, so how are you? (Eddie) I’m clean and green now, I lucked out, I found mine so early that it was unbelievable and I got it taken care of. (Troy) That’s the thing, she got hers caught off an annual mammogram, and he was just having some pain, and he got it checked out. That’s the thing about a lot of cancer is if you find it early, it’s 99% curable.
You were just inducted in the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame: (Troy) It’s pretty diverse, all music formats, actors, and songwriters. The Backstreet Boys were in our group. Somebody who surprised me was Florence Henderson lived in Kentucky. Cool to be honored by our state for what we’ve achieved.
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