Kevin Fowler's 2011 CD, Chippin' Away. Photo courtesy of Average Joe's Entertainment.

On the heels of scoring his second consecutive No. 1 hit on the Texas Music Chart with “Hell Yeah, I Like Beer,” Kevin Fowler is set to release his rowdy new album, Chippin’ Away. With a quick tongue and a voice that sounds like an old country highway meeting between Randy Rogers and John Mellencamp, Chippin’ Away offers 11 songs about beer, women, a little more beer, and a few simple pleasures all mixed together with a heavy dose of honky tonk.

Everybody knows you shouldn’t drink too much/ so why’s it always seem like there’s never enough?, Kevin wonders on “Hell Yeah, I Like Beer,” a straight up honk tonk number with no chaser. Swinging guitars with a touch of distortion, loose pedal steel and a pinch of fiddle support Kevin’s warm, road-worn voice on the barroom sing-along. Kevin’s rugged style combines traditional country with a rough-around-the-edges rock element that sounds completely natural. Kicking off with a twanged-out guitar riff, “Girl In A Truck,” (the album’s lead single and other No. 1 Texas Chart hit) is an ode to all those country girls driving jacked-up Fords with mud on the tires. With a melody and vocal delivery that bounces like driving down a back road, Kevin’s voice matches the song’s subject and structure while nimbly moving through thumping chords.

Kevin’s quick sense of humor is on display throughout Chippin’ Away. Even on a ballad like the acoustic-based “Daddies and Daughters,” a song about that special relationship and the protectiveness of a father, Kevin uses an understated joke to help complete the overall picture. Amidst tender guitar and quiet piano, Kevin sings Continue Reading

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The current Montgomery Gentry single “Long Line Of Losers” celebrates a colorful family tree that’s “half outlaw, half boozers.” And if it sounds like they mean it, that might be because Eddie Montgomery in particular can relate to the song firsthand.

“I really was raised with a shot glass in my hand,” Eddie says. “I ain’t gonna lie about it. You know, everybody’s like, ‘Well, I don’t know if I’d talk about it,’ or what. Hell, it does not bother me at all. You know, it never has. [Although] now I do know as an adult why none of the other parents would ever let kids come over to our house.”

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