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All the while, he says his late bandmate has been involved in the process too. He wrote eight of the 12 tracks on Ain’t No Closing Me Down, which also includes songs penned by David Lee Murphy, Tony Lane and Jeffrey Steele. Make sure that you get somebody that thinks a lot like you do but is a lot better in business than you are. If you’re like me, you’re not very good at the business part. I love to live life, but the best business advice is always to be yourself, be who you are. I love to be on stage, and I love to entertain. I know what I want and what I like and what I love but the numbers game, always have somebody else. I love business and I try to learn more about it. “Trust your feelings and trust who you are,” he advises. MORE FROM FORBES Zac Brown Band's New Album 'The Comeback' Promises Better Days Ahead By Annie Reuter As an entertainer, Montgomery says the most important business lessons he’s learned is to be yourself and to hire a business manager to assist in the things he has questions about. Just as he passes down wisdom in the songs he writes, Montgomery hopes to share the business advice he’s learned the hard way with his children.

… I want them to raise their kids and make sure they live life and go out there and get it.”

“I was thinking about my boys – the ones that passed and the ones that are out here busting their ass every day – and how I've raised them and how my daddy raised me and how my grandfather raised me. “Of course, I had a lot of feelings about it, thinking about my sons,” he says. He says he wrote the tune after watching the film’s trailer countless times. The sentimental “My Son,” featured in the film Old Henry, has the singer-songwriter channeling the lessons passed down from his father and grandfather to his own sons. In addition to Ain’t No Closing Me Down being Montgomery’s first solo project featuring the Montgomery Gentry band, it also is the first time he’s written a song for a film. MORE FROM FORBES Trisha Yearwood On Entrepreneurial Success: 'I Always Was Open To Opportunity' By Annie Reuter

Montgomery says the heart and soul of Montgomery Gentry is heard within Ain’t No Closing Me Down. The band built the songs from scratch in the studio just like Nashville’s session players do. Me and T had tried to get them on a CD for years and finally they believed in it enough.” “They’ve lived everything that we’ve lived. “They’ve been through bus fires with us, they’ve been through divorces with us,” he says of the band. The group served as session players on the recording of the project. Montgomery honors the legacy of Gentry with help from the duo’s longtime band.

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