Knoxville Firefighters Association Benefit Concert Featuring: John Michael Montgomery

John Michael Montgomeryjohn Michael Montgomery arrived on the country music scene in 1992 with a debut album, Life's a Dance, that became the only million-seller on the country charts by a new artist that year. Its title track was a #4 hit single and was followed by his first country chart-topper, "I Love the Way You Love Me" (also a #60 pop hit),[1] and the #21 "Beer and Bones". "I Love the Way You Love Me" was named Single of the Year by the Academy of Country Music,[2] and Life's a Dance earned… Show more triple-platinum Riaa certification.Montgomery's second album was 1994's Kickin' It Up.[1] This album was led off by the Number One country and #42 pop hit "I Swear", which was also the Number One country hit for the entire year according to Billboard Year-End. After this song came the #4 "Rope the Moon", and two more Number Ones in "Be My Baby Tonight" and "If You've Got Love".[1] "I Swear" gained further success a year later, when it was covered by pop group All-4-One. Kickin' It Up also sold even higher than his debut, earning a quadruple platinum certification for shipments of four million copies.In 1995, he released his self-titled third studio album. Also a quadruple-platinum seller, it accounted for five hit singles, including the Number One hits "I Can Love You Like That" and "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)". Like "I Swear" before it, the former was covered by All-4-One, while the latter was also declared the Number One country hit of 1995 on the Billboard Year-End charts. After this pair of Number One hits came the #3 "No Man's Land", then two consecutive #4 singles in "Cowboy Love" and "Long as I Live." Also included on the album was "Holdin' On to Something", which was a Top Ten country hit in early 1996 for Jeff Carson. At the end of 1995, Montgomery placed his career on hiatus due to a vocal cord injury.[1]What I Do the Best was the title of his fourth studio album, released by Atlantic in 1996. This was the first album of his career not to produce a Number One country hit. It also failed to match the sales of its predecessors, although it still earned platinum certification. This album was led off by the #15 "Ain't Got Nothin' On Us", which despite debuting in the Top 40 its first week on the charts, also became his first single since 1993's "Beer and Bones" to miss Top Ten. He regained his chart momentum with three more Top Ten hits off the same album: "Friends" at #2, "I Miss You a Little" at #6 and "How Was I to Know" also at #2.[1] After this album, he released a Greatest Hits album in 1997, which reprised his greatest hits to that point and went platinum in the United States. It also included the new song "Angel in My Eyes", which was a #4 single for him that year. Also in 1997, Montgomery sang guest vocals on "Warning Signs", a #56-peaking musical track which included snippets from a Bill Engvall comedy sketch.In 1998, Montgomery released his fifth album, Leave a Mark. This album contained a more pop-oriented sound than his previous work.[1] Despite only earning a gold certification from the Riaa, it accounted for three more hit singles. First was "Love Working on You" at #14, followed by "Cover You in Kisses" at #3 and "Hold On to Me" at #4. Despite having several of his singles cross over to the pop charts, "Hold On to Me" was his first Top 40 pop hit, reaching #33 on the Hot 100.Home to You, his sixth album, continued to move Montgomery into adult contemporary-leaning material, and continued his declining album sales.[1] It produced a #15 in "Hello L.O.V.E." and a #2 in its title track, although the next two singles - "Nothing Catches Jesus by Surprise" and "You Are" - both fell short of Top 40, with the former being his first single to do so.Montgomery returned to the top of the country charts for the first time since 1995 with "The Little Girl". This song, featuring backing vocals from Alison Krauss and inspired by an urban legend, was the first single from his 2000 album Brand New Me, spending three weeks at Number One and reaching #35 on the Hot 100. Despite the success of this song, however, Montgomery again found his chart success declining after "The Little Girl", as the album's other two singles - "That's What I Like About You" and "Even Then" - both failed to reach Top 40, although Brand New Me earned a gold certification. By the end of the year, Montgomery was also moved from Atlantic to parent label Warner Bros. Records after Atlantic closed its Nashville branch.When:Saturday, December 8, 20128:00PMWhere:Knoxville ColiseumTicket Information:The ticket information for this event is still being prepared, and is not yet available to the public. Please check-back soon for additional information, or sign up for the keep me posted section of our web site. 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