July 31, 2025 • 14 mins
Kentucky's John Michael Montgomery popped onto WHAS Radio to discuss his long, successful music career launch from Nicholasville.
He tells the story of hearing his music on the radio for the first time, how All For One's version of his song "I Swear" changed his career, and much more.
Tickets are on sale now for John Michael's final show this December 12th in Rupp Arena.
Another Kentucky musical legend is moving on to his next adventure beyong touring. Thanks, JMM
He tells the story of hearing his music on the radio for the first time, how All For One's version of his song "I Swear" changed his career, and much more.
Tickets are on sale now for John Michael's final show this December 12th in Rupp Arena.
Another Kentucky musical legend is moving on to his next adventure beyong touring. Thanks, JMM
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is a talent leaden hour here on the Electric Radio.
A couple guys from Nappy Roots are in the studio
with me. Be still, Ron Clutch, go to see those guys.
A fellows, good to see you. I'm gonna say hi. First. Hey,
we'll talk in just a minute or two. First, I
want to bring in another Kentucky legend who is winding
down his incredible career, John Michael Montgomery. Good have you on?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
What's going on? Guy?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey, you've had a You've had an unbelievable career. JMM.
And I know you're you're happy to get on this
home stretch, but you're probably a little sad too, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, it's a bittersweet, there's no doubt about it. I mean,
you know, uh, thirty thirty three years out on the road,
it's been. It's been wonderful obviously. Uh. But you know, hey,
there you've been. You've been doing as long as I have,
ain't you?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I have?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I have, I got I was on Lexington Radio right
in the early eight until nineteen eighty and then came
over here to Louisville. So I've been here my whole career.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, I mean, you know, and it's it just goes
by so fast, and you know, it's a bittersweet. Obviously,
I still love getting on stage and performance singing. That's
what I've done since I was six years old with
my mom and dad, my brother Edi and Montgomery Gentry
and but you know, I mean, I guess I turned
sixty this year and you know, and I was just like,
you know, I think this is you know, you look
yourself in the mirror just like an athlete. You know,
(01:35):
you go, you know what, I think it's time to
It's be a good time to finish it up, you know.
And and of course I talked to my booking agency
and everything about it, and I said, you know, the
perfect scenario for me it was thirty years ago when
I was able to play Repereena and that's the peak
of my career. And as absolutely you know that's my
(01:58):
favorite venue ever obviously because I'm a big wild.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Cats Cats That's what you're going to say, right.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And uh yeah, and uh so, uh they I said,
if I could work it out where I could do
my last show and reparena with my brother Eddie and
my son Walker and of course my son I got
a son in law now uh, Travis Denning who was
an artist and and uh as a matter of fact,
he he co wrote the uh song uh that carry
(02:29):
Underwood and uh uh Cody Johnson do it? He you know.
So he's he's doing good for himself. So he's gonna
be show with me too.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, he's got a little confidence to come up to
his daddy in law and say, hey, I got a song.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, I mean, you know, hey, uh, I got to
help him out, you know. Uh uh. But no, he's
doing good on his own. But my daughter and Madison
obviously and him just they had a little baby girl
about two weeks ago. So I'm a grandpa now and
(03:05):
all kinds of great things obviously, So I'll be busy
long after I'm done turning rights.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
What's your grandfather name? What did you give yourself for
a granddad name?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Poppy? I'm I'm Poppy.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah that's good.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So yeah, So I've been trying to train her to
say that. The first words out of her mouth is Poppy.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Out they're coming. Well, that's not far away. I mean
you're a little early in the game right now. But
she'll she'll say she'll say that soon enough, and it
is fun to get to work with your brother and
your son and your son in law. I mean, that's
going to be awesome. To wrap it all up. You're
doing it December twelfth, right, and that's the night before.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, is that the night before.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Pope's team plays Indiana? Right?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think that's you know what, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I think that's the next day.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I know on December the sixth, they are playing
in Knoxville, Tennessee. But I didn't know about the Indiana game,
so that that's real big yeah, so uh yeah, you know,
I mean, uh uh just loving the fact that uh
uh you know, I get to do my show there.
Uh it's my favorite venue ever and uh growing up
(04:14):
as a kid watching the Cats play and all that stuff.
Uh you know, so, uh it's a bittersweet for me.
I'll be crying all night. There ain't no doubt about it,
you know, meeting all my friends and family. You know,
I still live at home where I grew up at
here Nicholas Fiel, Katucky, you south of Lexington, and and uh,
you know, I got all my friends and you know,
all my family coming and everything. I'm going to have
(04:35):
a b ip. I probably might have more people backstage
than I will out front.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There gonna be tickets going. Ticket's gonna sell ten o'clock
tomorrow morning. By the way, have you ever gone up
on high Bridge and just spent just to see how
long it takes?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I only live I live just uh three miles from Wilmore,
and uh, you know, high bridges right down the road up.
I've been definitely uh been on high Bridge. And I
mean back when I was younger and uh, you know,
had and I was braver. Uh but now you know,
I mean me and my brother Eddie lives in uh Danvill, Kentucky,
(05:10):
which is where we were born at you know, he's
only twenty minutes away from me, so I go and
see him about once a week and visit, and you know,
and me and him, you know, I grew up together
a year and a half apart, playing music with our dad,
mom and doing our own band and all that stuff,
you know, and all our family and friends around here.
So I never moved to Nashville. We you know, we
never moved to Nashville. We love where we're from and
(05:32):
and you know, it's been a great life. Uh and uh,
you know, my both my kids live in Nashville now,
you know, so I still go down there and visit him.
So Nashville is always going to be a part of
my life. But uh, you know, it's hard to believe
that it's gone by this past Uh but you know,
the old phones and the muscles and the uh you know,
(05:53):
the ears, every everything finally goes, hey, I've had enough,
you know, time take a break, you know, so, uh,
the turing part of it, obviously, I'm going to wind
up at the end of this year. And uh, you
know it's uh, it's just hard to believe how fast
it's gone by. Three decades has gone by enlightening speed.
(06:14):
You know, it's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And your songs obviously have stuck with people over here.
So I mean once who was an all for one
did I Swear? And you you heard your songs like, wow,
that was a different treatment, and then that one.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh yeah, well that's you know, that's a whole story
in itself. Obviously, when I put I Swear out, I thought,
I love the way you loved me. It was going
to be my biggest ballad ever after you know, my
number one, first number one hit off the lights of
dancing album, and then I Swear came out, and then
about a month later, Rick Blackburn of Atlantic Records calls
(06:47):
me in the office. He goes, hey, I got to
tell you something. I'm like what He's like, well, uh,
there's another group going to come out with I Swear
pretty soon and they're on the Atlantic Records out of
New York. And I said really, He said, yeah, popping
R B R and B Birds and everything. I said,
what great? Hey, you mean you know, like, I'm not
a popping arm B artist. Don't want to be, so hey,
(07:08):
I mean it's a great song. Uh you know, you know,
So they came out with it obviously about a month later,
and I mean they exploded. And then the next year
I did an album, self titled album that had I
Can Love You Like That on it, and we both
put that song out too, so uh you know, uh,
(07:28):
you know, we yeah, two great songs that two great
genres obviously got to be a part of, and well
it all crossed over, and uh, you know, I've been
so fortunate to have such wonderful songs in my life.
You know that uh was well, basically, you know, they
(07:50):
were a part of me being able to be around
this long and continue going out and doing what I
love to do.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, I read that you worked in a grocery store.
And when I was going to UK, I worked at
the grocery still the crow on high Step and uh
you that what you did? Did you stock shelves or
are you in a freezer?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You free? Well what I did was, uh, you know,
there's a little grocery store called Pitches I g A
and Willmore, Kentucky. Oh, my dad was the butcher. My
dad was the butcher. Now. My first job was in
Danble at a grocery store and uh uh but uh
you know my dad started working in uh the Pitches
I g A here in Willmore, and uh I was
(08:27):
the stock boy and I was also We drove, me
and my dad drove together to work every morning at
about four thirty five am. And he did all the
meat stuff and I did all the frozen food stuff
because all those trucks came in so early. And then
I would go to school high school. Uh, leave there
about seven thirty and go to high school. Uh, and
(08:50):
after high school I'd come back and finish up the
night as a stock boy and back boy, you know
at the grocery store, and uh, you know, and and
and then on the weekends, uh, you know, we'd go
out and take them sing music, you know, and it
was definitely, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's a hard living part of my life.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But well, you know, you don't know how broke.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You are when you you know, that's right, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Gas in your car and gas was like, you know,
the dollar gallony.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's right, let's do this. Sometime you and I will
go over to one of these stores and we'll break
down a truck. We'll show them. Two old men like
us still.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Know how to do that. Okay, Yeah, hey, I'll tell
you what the four point thirty in the morning, I
didn't care much about that. Yeah, I greantee you I
could still stock some frozen foods. I guarantee you that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Indeed. Hey, John Michael, it's great talking to you. I'm
so happy for you for your success. The Road Home.
The final concert is Friday, December twelfth, and Rough Arena
tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at ten. And I
know you've already had a pre sale running, but man,
you've made Kentucky proud. And thanks a ton for everything.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, hey, thank you for having me on the show,
and uh, I continued success for you and uh, thanks, uh,
you know for playing my music. And I'm looking forward
to I'm looking forward to, you know, December the twelfth,
and it's going to be a big time, big party.
Please come out and share some tears with me.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We're going to do that, all right. I always ask
every artist this too. Tell me about the experience the
first time of hearing your music on the radio. Where
were you? What happened?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh, well, it was funny. I had played golf with
a DJ in Nashville, and because I love golf obviously,
and uh, and he we were, we were done. We
were on our way back to have a little Uh,
I don't know where. We're going to Applebee's or something
like that there and around Nashville, he said. So he
asked me the same question. I said, but I haven't
(10:46):
heard my song on the radio yet. I haven't even
heard it. And he said, no, kid, So he kind
of cheated. He called up, you know, the DJ, and said, hey,
put on you need to play. Put this thing on.
And so we sit there in the pile up parking
lot to that restaurant and it came on and it's
it's the most amazing feeling. You know. You can you
can hear it all you want on the CD and
(11:09):
in the studio and all that stuff, but when it
comes over the radio waves, the magic is incredible. I mean,
there's just no feeling like it, and especially the first time,
and you know, it just it just has a special
sound about it. And I will never forget that day.
And you know, and of course I had no idea
(11:30):
if that was going to be my first or last hit,
if I was going to have a career that lasted
one year, five years, ten years, one hit won You know,
all that stuff goes through your head. You just tickle
to death that you know, you you got a song
and radio's planet and the world's hearing it, and you know,
you just can't believe it. But that sound through them speakers,
(11:50):
you know, growing up listening to all the great seventies
music that I grew up with in eighties music and
all on radio, and all of a sudden, my boys
and my music's coming over those same speakers on radio.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What's the greatest feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love it? All right, come over here and play
golf sometime. We'll we'll get your set up, all right.
I'll be in touch, be in touch, John Michael.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Thanks all right, Telly. I appreciate you, brother. You have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
See us soon, all right, John Michael Montgomery. His career
is slowing down. Later this year. Some guys from Nappy
Roots be Still in Clutch are in the studio with
me right now. Guys, isn't that fun to hear somebody
else tell their story about hearing their music on the
radio the first time?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It is man and the fact that he's, you know,
coming to that age where he's thinking about calling the
quiz man. It's like giving me he's sixty years old.
So I hope the Nappy Ruths can make it at
least until we that it would.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That'd be great for sure. That's funny. You remember the
first time you heard it?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And now I was I was thinking this he was speaking.
I was like, Okay. The first time I remember our
first song was we was on campus West at Westcntoia
University and I want to say we was in my
old Cadillact ZEMN nine Coop Deville.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We had to pull off the road. We were so excited,
good and it was it was a local station. Don't
you love that though? And it comes out and it's like,
it's really.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
We made it on campus radio though, you know what,
That's okay, But you know, by the time we heard
it on real radio, we had already experienced the first moment,
you know what I'm saying. So it wasn't as special,
but it was still magical though.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Nothing like it. So glad you guys here. We're going
to take a time out come back here and then
get into what you guys are doing this weekend. And
we're pretty excited about this Saturday. But great to see
both of my friends here. I haven't seen you guys
in a while. This is fun. This is a fun
hour having John, Michael Montgomery and then the guys from
Nappy Roots in the studio here back to back, back
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(13:50):
A
It is a talent leaden hour here on the Electric Radio.
A couple guys from Nappy Roots are in the studio
with me. Be still, Ron Clutch, go to see those guys.
A fellows, good to see you. I'm gonna say hi. First. Hey,
we'll talk in just a minute or two. First, I
want to bring in another Kentucky legend who is winding
down his incredible career, John Michael Montgomery. Good have you on?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
What's going on? Guy?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey, you've had a You've had an unbelievable career. JMM.
And I know you're you're happy to get on this
home stretch, but you're probably a little sad too, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, it's a bittersweet, there's no doubt about it. I mean,
you know, uh, thirty thirty three years out on the road,
it's been. It's been wonderful obviously. Uh. But you know, hey,
there you've been. You've been doing as long as I have,
ain't you?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I have?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I have, I got I was on Lexington Radio right
in the early eight until nineteen eighty and then came
over here to Louisville. So I've been here my whole career.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, I mean, you know, and it's it just goes
by so fast, and you know, it's a bittersweet. Obviously,
I still love getting on stage and performance singing. That's
what I've done since I was six years old with
my mom and dad, my brother Edi and Montgomery Gentry
and but you know, I mean, I guess I turned
sixty this year and you know, and I was just like,
you know, I think this is you know, you look
yourself in the mirror just like an athlete. You know,
(01:35):
you go, you know what, I think it's time to
It's be a good time to finish it up, you know.
And and of course I talked to my booking agency
and everything about it, and I said, you know, the
perfect scenario for me it was thirty years ago when
I was able to play Repereena and that's the peak
of my career. And as absolutely you know that's my
(01:58):
favorite venue ever obviously because I'm a big wild.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Cats Cats That's what you're going to say, right.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And uh yeah, and uh so, uh they I said,
if I could work it out where I could do
my last show and reparena with my brother Eddie and
my son Walker and of course my son I got
a son in law now uh, Travis Denning who was
an artist and and uh as a matter of fact,
he he co wrote the uh song uh that carry
(02:29):
Underwood and uh uh Cody Johnson do it? He you know.
So he's he's doing good for himself. So he's gonna
be show with me too.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, he's got a little confidence to come up to
his daddy in law and say, hey, I got a song.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, I mean, you know, hey, uh, I got to
help him out, you know. Uh uh. But no, he's
doing good on his own. But my daughter and Madison
obviously and him just they had a little baby girl
about two weeks ago. So I'm a grandpa now and
(03:05):
all kinds of great things obviously, So I'll be busy
long after I'm done turning rights.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
What's your grandfather name? What did you give yourself for
a granddad name?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Poppy? I'm I'm Poppy.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah that's good.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So yeah, So I've been trying to train her to
say that. The first words out of her mouth is Poppy.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Out they're coming. Well, that's not far away. I mean
you're a little early in the game right now. But
she'll she'll say she'll say that soon enough, and it
is fun to get to work with your brother and
your son and your son in law. I mean, that's
going to be awesome. To wrap it all up. You're
doing it December twelfth, right, and that's the night before.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, is that the night before.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Pope's team plays Indiana? Right?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think that's you know what, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I think that's the next day.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I know on December the sixth, they are playing
in Knoxville, Tennessee. But I didn't know about the Indiana game,
so that that's real big yeah, so uh yeah, you know,
I mean, uh uh just loving the fact that uh
uh you know, I get to do my show there.
Uh it's my favorite venue ever and uh growing up
(04:14):
as a kid watching the Cats play and all that stuff.
Uh you know, so, uh it's a bittersweet for me.
I'll be crying all night. There ain't no doubt about it,
you know, meeting all my friends and family. You know,
I still live at home where I grew up at
here Nicholas Fiel, Katucky, you south of Lexington, and and uh,
you know, I got all my friends and you know,
all my family coming and everything. I'm going to have
(04:35):
a b ip. I probably might have more people backstage
than I will out front.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There gonna be tickets going. Ticket's gonna sell ten o'clock
tomorrow morning. By the way, have you ever gone up
on high Bridge and just spent just to see how
long it takes?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I only live I live just uh three miles from Wilmore,
and uh, you know, high bridges right down the road up.
I've been definitely uh been on high Bridge. And I
mean back when I was younger and uh, you know,
had and I was braver. Uh but now you know,
I mean me and my brother Eddie lives in uh Danvill, Kentucky,
(05:10):
which is where we were born at you know, he's
only twenty minutes away from me, so I go and
see him about once a week and visit, and you know,
and me and him, you know, I grew up together
a year and a half apart, playing music with our dad,
mom and doing our own band and all that stuff,
you know, and all our family and friends around here.
So I never moved to Nashville. We you know, we
never moved to Nashville. We love where we're from and
(05:32):
and you know, it's been a great life. Uh and uh,
you know, my both my kids live in Nashville now,
you know, so I still go down there and visit him.
So Nashville is always going to be a part of
my life. But uh, you know, it's hard to believe
that it's gone by this past Uh but you know,
the old phones and the muscles and the uh you know,
(05:53):
the ears, every everything finally goes, hey, I've had enough,
you know, time take a break, you know, so, uh,
the turing part of it, obviously, I'm going to wind
up at the end of this year. And uh, you
know it's uh, it's just hard to believe how fast
it's gone by. Three decades has gone by enlightening speed.
(06:14):
You know, it's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And your songs obviously have stuck with people over here.
So I mean once who was an all for one
did I Swear? And you you heard your songs like, wow,
that was a different treatment, and then that one.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh yeah, well that's you know, that's a whole story
in itself. Obviously, when I put I Swear out, I thought,
I love the way you loved me. It was going
to be my biggest ballad ever after you know, my
number one, first number one hit off the lights of
dancing album, and then I Swear came out, and then
about a month later, Rick Blackburn of Atlantic Records calls
(06:47):
me in the office. He goes, hey, I got to
tell you something. I'm like what He's like, well, uh,
there's another group going to come out with I Swear
pretty soon and they're on the Atlantic Records out of
New York. And I said really, He said, yeah, popping
R B R and B Birds and everything. I said,
what great? Hey, you mean you know, like, I'm not
a popping arm B artist. Don't want to be, so hey,
(07:08):
I mean it's a great song. Uh you know, you know,
So they came out with it obviously about a month later,
and I mean they exploded. And then the next year
I did an album, self titled album that had I
Can Love You Like That on it, and we both
put that song out too, so uh you know, uh,
(07:28):
you know, we yeah, two great songs that two great
genres obviously got to be a part of, and well
it all crossed over, and uh, you know, I've been
so fortunate to have such wonderful songs in my life.
You know that uh was well, basically, you know, they
(07:50):
were a part of me being able to be around
this long and continue going out and doing what I
love to do.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, I read that you worked in a grocery store.
And when I was going to UK, I worked at
the grocery still the crow on high Step and uh
you that what you did? Did you stock shelves or
are you in a freezer?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You free? Well what I did was, uh, you know,
there's a little grocery store called Pitches I g A
and Willmore, Kentucky. Oh, my dad was the butcher. My
dad was the butcher. Now. My first job was in
Danble at a grocery store and uh uh but uh
you know my dad started working in uh the Pitches
I g A here in Willmore, and uh I was
(08:27):
the stock boy and I was also We drove, me
and my dad drove together to work every morning at
about four thirty five am. And he did all the
meat stuff and I did all the frozen food stuff
because all those trucks came in so early. And then
I would go to school high school. Uh, leave there
about seven thirty and go to high school. Uh, and
(08:50):
after high school I'd come back and finish up the
night as a stock boy and back boy, you know
at the grocery store, and uh, you know, and and
and then on the weekends, uh, you know, we'd go
out and take them sing music, you know, and it
was definitely, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's a hard living part of my life.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But well, you know, you don't know how broke.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You are when you you know, that's right, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Gas in your car and gas was like, you know,
the dollar gallony.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's right, let's do this. Sometime you and I will
go over to one of these stores and we'll break
down a truck. We'll show them. Two old men like
us still.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Know how to do that. Okay, Yeah, hey, I'll tell
you what the four point thirty in the morning, I
didn't care much about that. Yeah, I greantee you I
could still stock some frozen foods. I guarantee you that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Indeed. Hey, John Michael, it's great talking to you. I'm
so happy for you for your success. The Road Home.
The final concert is Friday, December twelfth, and Rough Arena
tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at ten. And I
know you've already had a pre sale running, but man,
you've made Kentucky proud. And thanks a ton for everything.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, hey, thank you for having me on the show,
and uh, I continued success for you and uh, thanks, uh,
you know for playing my music. And I'm looking forward
to I'm looking forward to, you know, December the twelfth,
and it's going to be a big time, big party.
Please come out and share some tears with me.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
We're going to do that, all right. I always ask
every artist this too. Tell me about the experience the
first time of hearing your music on the radio. Where
were you? What happened?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh, well, it was funny. I had played golf with
a DJ in Nashville, and because I love golf obviously,
and uh, and he we were, we were done. We
were on our way back to have a little Uh,
I don't know where. We're going to Applebee's or something
like that there and around Nashville, he said. So he
asked me the same question. I said, but I haven't
(10:46):
heard my song on the radio yet. I haven't even
heard it. And he said, no, kid, So he kind
of cheated. He called up, you know, the DJ, and said, hey,
put on you need to play. Put this thing on.
And so we sit there in the pile up parking
lot to that restaurant and it came on and it's
it's the most amazing feeling. You know. You can you
can hear it all you want on the CD and
(11:09):
in the studio and all that stuff, but when it
comes over the radio waves, the magic is incredible. I mean,
there's just no feeling like it, and especially the first time,
and you know, it just it just has a special
sound about it. And I will never forget that day.
And you know, and of course I had no idea
(11:30):
if that was going to be my first or last hit,
if I was going to have a career that lasted
one year, five years, ten years, one hit won You know,
all that stuff goes through your head. You just tickle
to death that you know, you you got a song
and radio's planet and the world's hearing it, and you know,
you just can't believe it. But that sound through them speakers,
(11:50):
you know, growing up listening to all the great seventies
music that I grew up with in eighties music and
all on radio, and all of a sudden, my boys
and my music's coming over those same speakers on radio.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What's the greatest feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love it? All right, come over here and play
golf sometime. We'll we'll get your set up, all right.
I'll be in touch, be in touch, John Michael.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Thanks all right, Telly. I appreciate you, brother. You have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
See us soon, all right, John Michael Montgomery. His career
is slowing down. Later this year. Some guys from Nappy
Roots be Still in Clutch are in the studio with
me right now. Guys, isn't that fun to hear somebody
else tell their story about hearing their music on the
radio the first time?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It is man and the fact that he's, you know,
coming to that age where he's thinking about calling the
quiz man. It's like giving me he's sixty years old.
So I hope the Nappy Ruths can make it at
least until we that it would.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That'd be great for sure. That's funny. You remember the
first time you heard it?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And now I was I was thinking this he was speaking.
I was like, Okay. The first time I remember our
first song was we was on campus West at Westcntoia
University and I want to say we was in my
old Cadillact ZEMN nine Coop Deville.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We had to pull off the road. We were so excited,
good and it was it was a local station. Don't
you love that though? And it comes out and it's like,
it's really.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
We made it on campus radio though, you know what,
That's okay, But you know, by the time we heard
it on real radio, we had already experienced the first moment,
you know what I'm saying. So it wasn't as special,
but it was still magical though.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Nothing like it. So glad you guys here. We're going
to take a time out come back here and then
get into what you guys are doing this weekend. And
we're pretty excited about this Saturday. But great to see
both of my friends here. I haven't seen you guys
in a while. This is fun. This is a fun
hour having John, Michael Montgomery and then the guys from
Nappy Roots in the studio here back to back, back
in a fe on news radio. Wait forty w h
(13:50):
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