You Do Your Thing (CD - 2004)

Personnel: Billy Panda (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar); David Grissom (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (acoustic guitar, steel guitar, lap steel guitar); Russ Pahl (acoustic guitar, steel guitar, banjo); John Willis (acoustic guitar, bouzouki); Rivers Rutherford (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Steven Sheehan (acoustic guitar); Kenny Greenberg, Pat Buchanan, Tom Bukovac (electric guitar); Bryan Sutton (banjo, bouzouki); Chris Dunn, Jim Horn, Sam Levine , Steve Patrick (horns); Reese Wynans (piano, organ); Tony Harrell (keyboards); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Shannon Forrest (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Gale West, Gabrielle West, Gretchen Wilson, Jason Sellers, Jeffrey Steele, Joe Scaife, Neil Thrasher, Angela Primm, Tom Hambridge, Wes Hightower, Bekka Bramlett, Perry Coleman (background vocals).

Additional personnel: Hank Williams, Jr. (vocals); Reese Wynans (Hammond b-3 organ); Michael Rhodes (bass instrument); Shannon Forest (drums); David Grissom, Eric Darken, Steven Sheehan, Tom Hambridge, Bekka Bramlett, Tom Bukovac.

Audio Mixers: Julian King; Steve Marcantonio.

Recording information: Maple Groove; Quad Studios, Nashville, TN; Sony-Tree Studios, Nashville, TN; Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN; Studio 6, San Francisco, CA; The Sound Kitchen, Franklin, TN; The Tin Ear, Nashville, TN; Westwood Sound Studio, Nashville, TN.

Editor: Tony Castle.

Photographer: James Minchin.

Montgomery Gentry has repeatedly topped the country charts with an unabashedly traditional brand of country-rock that keeps one foot firmly planted on each side of the genre's fence. Celebrating the classic Southern virtues of unflinching patriotism and small-town pride, the duo puts a positive spin on the redneck-rebel image of artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams Jr., delivering a sound that's equally at home in the barn dance and the biker bar. On YOU DO YOUR THING, Montgomery Gentry brings its down-home sentiments even closer to the fore. The title track serves as something of a conservative manifesto, with Eddie Montgomery proclaiming his intention to pray, spend money, and engage in corporal punishment whenever and however he pleases. Similarly, "It's All Good" applauds a small community's staunch defense of the simple life in the face of encroaching modernity. Meanwhile, the duo is backed by an earthy melange of raging guitars, booming drums, and weepy steel, all of which lend the singers' sentiments a forceful authenticity. minimize