You can call it prescient or predetermined, but when Terry Lickona, undisputed taste-maker and producer of Austin City Limits, plucked a then relatively unknown guitar talent to tape a segment of the legendary show in 1999, one had the sense that this was just the beginning.
Since that jaw dropping performance on Austin City Limits, Monte Montgomery has embarked on an almost fantasy like rock and roll roller coaster ride filled with dizzying accomplishments and mind blowing accolades. Named one of the “Top 50 All-Time Greatest Guitar Players” by Guitar Player Magazine, he’s been called everything from “guitar-god” to the “answer to the Fermi Paradox” and has won the “Best Acoustic Guitar Player” award at the Austin Chronicle’s Austin Music Awards seven years in a row.