Acoustic Guitar Magazine

"Monte Montgomery is not your typical up-and-coming guitar god. His exquisitely crafted,melodically and rhythmically sophisticated pop songs suggest the best of Fleetwood Mac, Squeeze, and the Police, while just happening to integrate the most mind-boggling guitar work in the state of Texas. In his amazing live performances, backed by drummer Phil Bass and bassist Chris Maresh, Montgomery completely lets go. "Somehow those three minute pop songs become 12 minute sagas," he jokes. He picks and frets with all ten fingers at once, stretching chord positions across an alarming six frets while playing rhythm strokes,melody, and bass lines, all the while casually tossing in faster-than-the-naked-eye harmonics, two-handed tapping, bass-style string slapping, percussive string stops, guitar-torturing neck bends, and guitar-body percussion. His fast and precise plectrum playing, meanwhile, leaves even most electric guitar players gasping."

-David Gold