70's/80's rock. Solo album from the main songwriter and keyboardist of ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossoff's band Back Street Crawler.

8 MP3 Songs
ROCK: 70's Rock, ROCK: Hard Rock



Details:
Mike Montgomery
Keyboards, vocals
Born Guthrie, Oklahoma USA

Has recorded with with Johnny Nash, David Bowie, Blood Sweat & Tears. Moved to London from New York to form Back Street Crawler with Paul Kossoff in 1975. Left Crawler in 1976 and recorded this album with his friends.


Guest Musicians:

Jimmy Bain (Bass)
Paul Thompson (Drums)
Brian Robertson (Guitar)
Scott Gorham (Guitar)
Bob Kulick (Guitar)
Morgan Fisher (Keyboards)
John Rabbit Bundrick (Keyboards)

Mike Montgomery Biography

Mike Montgomery was one country boy who's done some rockin' and rollin'. Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, he grew up in Oklahoma, Kansas, and California though he spent the greatest part of his childhood on the farm homesteaded by his great-grandfather in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. His earliest musical memories were of listening to Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles on the radio and responding deeply to their music. He also had his young soul stirred by the gospel quartets at Kansas tent revivals.

By the age of eight he knew that he wanted to make music like the blues, country and rock and roll that affected him so strongly. When he was nine he succeeded in talking his grandparents into getting him his first guitar. When he wasn't plunking on that he was trying to pick out Jerry Lee Lewis or Floyd Cramer licks on the old upright piano in the Montgomery living room. At 15 he'd formed his first band and did his first recording at songwriter Glen Sullivan's Oklahoma City Studio. A year later he was appearing on local TV shows as well as playing honky-tonks and teen dances around the state. Mike went on to study music at Oklahoma City University before moving to Forth Worth, Texas and later to Houston. By this time he was writing music as well as playing it and his songs resulted in a record deal which prompted a move to New York. While living in New York he was hired by Johnny Nash to form a backing band for the singer. His two year stint with Nash was followed by a phone call from English guitarist Paul Kossoff which resulted in a move to London and a deal with Atlantic Records.

Mike moved back to New York in the early 80's and had been involved in a variety of projects, including the scoring of the film "Vice Squad" for which he engaged Johnny Winter, among others. He's also done sessions for Roy Buchannan, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, David Bowie, and lots of others along the way.