Listen to Steve Vai Get His Country on with Montgomery Gentry on "King of the World"

Steve Vai has lent his prodigious guitar talents to a new song from country act Montgomery Gentry, guesting on the duo’s "King of the World." You can listen to the track above.

The song comes off Montgomery Gentry’s new EP, Outskirts, which arrives in the wake of the tragic death of Troy Gentry. In September 2017, just hours before the duo was set to perform a concert in New Jersey, a helicopter carrying Gentry, crashed, killing both of the passengers. 

In the wake of the crash, Gentry’s musical partner, Eddie Montgomery, sorted through some of the unused songs from the recently completed sessions for their album, Here's to You. Those songs now appear on the Outskirts EP.

In addition to “King of the World,” the new EP includes covers of Merle Haggard’s “What Am I Gonna Do with the Rest of My Life” and Darrell Scott’s “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive.”

For more information, head to MontgomeryGentry.com.

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Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.