If you walked into the Event Center at the Sugar Creek Casino in Hinton Saturday night looking for a show that featured a group quietly playing their catalog of hits while fading off into the sunset to a group of fans who politely sat and listened to the songs that were played...

BOY, were you in the wrong place!

Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry hit the stage at the Sugar Creek Casino Saturday night at 8:00 and by 8:01 the place was rocking! Montgomery Gentry didn't act or play like a duo that was 10 years from their last platinum album (You Do Your Thing) and 5 years from their last top-10 hit ("Where I Come From"). From the opening chords of "Lonely and Gone" to the lights coming up after Eddie and T-Roy's final song, the crowd was hot and the guys were happy to provide the spark that stoked the fire all night long.

A lot of times, a duo that has been performing together as long as Montgomery Gentry not only loses the spark with the crowds, but they lose the glue that holds them together. 20 years of hotels, buses, one night stands and craft service menus is enough to drive any team apart, but Montgomery Gentry seem to be still as close as the day we first heard "Hillbilly Shoes" in 1999. Quite an accomplishment in a business that tends to drive a wedge between people and break-up friendships and relationships.

Maybe country music has changed so much since 1999 that their isn't a spot for the harmonies, musicianship and showmanship that MG brings to the stage every night, but myself and an almost sell-out crowd Saturday night were all left asking the question, "why aren't these guys still at the top of the charts and selling out big arenas?" The new songs they played of their most recent album Folks Like Us, which included the title track and "Headlights", left the audience, myself included, begging for more new material from the 2000 CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year.

On Saturday night it didn't seem like 15 years since they were on the top of the country music world. That night, and maybe it was just that one night, but on that night, Montgomery Gentry gave us all "Something To Be Proud Of", leaving us all screaming "Hell, Yeah".

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