Steve Young - Montgomery in the Rain

Outlaw Country music pioneer, Steve Young wrote and first recorded Montgomery in the Rain in 1971. The song is the final track off his second solo album, Seven Bridges Road. "Montgomery in the Rain is a very unusual song. Sometimes I wonder how I wrote this. While I was in Montgomery, I was having all these problems with some of the junior clansman. Then, I started writing this song and it evolved into Montgomery in the Rain. There's a slight reference, kind of toned down to the hostility that sometimes I would encounter in that city. Because it was a very redneck city. Not so long before that, I realized there had been a mob that was trying to get at Martin Luther King in downtown Montgomery at a church and President Kennedy called in the National Guard. So here I come, and I'm southerner. I'm supposed to be one of them and I'm saying 'No this isn't right'. So that's why they disliked me so much. It was really explosive." Steve Young In 1977, Hank Williams Jr. recorded a version of Montgomery in the Rain on his album, The New South. Welcome to the West filmed this Montgomery in the Rain session in Montana on the Gallatin River, a tributary of the Missouri River which flows through high alpine meadows, dropping into the rocky Gallatin Canyon, and flowing out into the Gallatin Valley.