John Michael Montgomery is able to take his closing bow.
The nation celebrity, 60, introduced Tuesday that he’ll be performing his final live performance in December earlier than retiring.
“It’s time to bring it all back home for the last show,” he wrote on Instagram.
The “I Swear” singer added that he “can’t think of a better place” to play his final present than Rupp Area in Lexington, Kentucky – his house state.
The present is about for Dec. 12, with tickets formally happening sale Friday.
Montgomery wrote that “some very special guests” could be becoming a member of him for the efficiency.
Eddie Montgomery, his brother and member of nation duo Montgomery Gentry, son Walker Montgomery and son-in-law Travis Denning are all set to hitch him.
He initially introduced his retirement in a Fb publish shared final 12 months on New 12 months’s Day, telling his followers, “I hope everyone enjoyed bringing in 2024 and may it be a wonderful one for all my friends out there. For me it will be the start of my farewell tour as I have decided to wind down my touring career over this year and 2025.”
He continued, “It’s been a wonderful run for me from the beginning over 30 years ago in 1992 when my first song LIFE’s A DANCE was released to radio I think either as a 45 vinyl or on a cassette tape, CDs had not quite taken over the market yet and the internet was still in its infancy. It amazes me where it is today.”
The nation star, identified for hits like “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)” and “Be My Baby Tonight,” stated that he’d been “fortunate and blessed to be able to do what I love for so many years.”
Montgomery hit the nation scene in 1992 along with his first album, “Life’s a Dance,” which went triple platinum.
The follow-up album, “Kickin’ It Up,” was launched two years later, and have become much more profitable, going quadruple platinum – a feat completed once more by his third album, 1995’s self-titled launch.
Seven of his singles made it to the number-one spot on the nation charts, and a dozen others broke the highest ten.
Over his profession, he received 4 Academy of Nation Music Awards, two Nation Music Affiliation Awards and was nominated for 3 Grammys.
Final August, his son, Walker, gave some perception into his resolution to retire.
“I think he deserves it. It’s been 30 years,” he advised Style of Nation. “People don’t realize how tough the road is, especially back in the ’90s … As he says, they’d bring a gallon of whiskey on the road with them and it would be gone by Sunday. It was a totally different kind of touring. It was tough on him.”
When Walker was requested what his well-known father plans on doing in retirement, he laughed and answered, “He bought a camper. I’m sure it will just be a phase.”
“He wants to go down to Florida, sit on the camper, and do whatever,” he stated. “He doesn’t even want to park it at the beach, but rather sit inland in it.”
Montgomery himself could have just lately shared a touch as to what else may maintain him occupied after he strikes on from music – on July 15, he shared that he’d just lately turn out to be a grandfather.
“I am a Grandpa!” he wrote on Instagram. “Say hello to Charlotte!”
He shared a photograph of himself and his spouse, Crystal White, with the new child, together with an image of himself holding his new granddaughter.
