Biography
My story begins in a park in the Bronx, NY in 1973. My dear friend gives me his copy of the "Sweet Baby James" album. I never give it back. I learn to sing each song accapella. I join the Marines and find myself walking down a street in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is a guitar in a window. I go in and buy it. I bring it back on the ship and start to make noise with it. The other Marines threaten me because of this noise. The guitar stands in a corner until another Marine named Frank David Scott picks it up and plays it. I ask him to teach me what he knows. That was 25 years, a few million miles, a marriage and a divorce, 3 great kids, 8 years riding in a patrol car in the South Bronx, a bunch of jury trials, a few thousand stages and over 300 songs ago.
What sets me apart is the quality and thought that I put into my lyrics, my passion, which comes from deep within me, is expressed by my voice and my ability to entertain any audience, anywhere at anytime. It is my goal to bring them on a journey through the whole gamut of human emotion in an hour and fifteen minutes. They will laugh, they will cry, they will think, they will be gratified, they will be pissed off and they will be satisfied when they leave. I want to do this in every performance. To make that connection with the audience whether or not I am singing for 10 people or 10 thousand.
Oh, and one other thing, the friend who gave me the JT album, his name was Brendan Francis Perry. I lost him in 1989. He gave me so much more than he ever knew.
Instrumentation
Montgomery Delaney, vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, hand percussion.
More members if necessary for s certain gigs.
Discography
"23809" Nightstick Records c 1993
"Walking In The Light" c 1997
"Changing Shoes" c 2006
My songs have also been featured on several compilations, in the Fast Folk Musical Revue and the Oasis receording Sampler. Two of my songs are part of the National Archive at the Smithsonian Institution.