Montgomery Gentry goes 'Back' for new summer trek

Country music duo Montgomery Gentry [ tickets ] have mapped out a tour this summer behind the pair's forthcoming new album, "Back When I Knew It All."Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry will work their own headlining and festival dates--which kick off with a May 17 show in Las Vegas--around a run of support dates for Toby Keith. The pair has close to 35 dates nailed down for the summer months; the first appearance with Keith comes June 19 in Pelham, AL. Details are below. Information on pre-sale opportunities for the upcoming shows can be found at the outfit's website.Due in stores June 10, "Back When I Knew It All" is the duo's follow-up to 2006's Grammy-nominated "Some People Change."�We've been hearing from a lot of fans--they want some more raucous kind of stuff out of us," Gentry recently told Billboard.com. "Some of the in-your-face, hard rock kind of stuff. So we're going to bring in some of the older Montgomery Gentry style back into the music, as far as twin lead guitars and hard-driving kind of sounds that we had in the past."The album features guest contributions from Keith on "I Pick My Parties" and Jypsi�s Lillie Mae Rische on "God Knows Who I Am." The set's title song and first single debuted at No. 49 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in March.