Montage Music Group
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Montage Music Group was an American independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 based in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
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, specializing in country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

. Acts signed to the label include Andy Griggs
Andy Griggs
Andrew Tyler "Andy" Griggs is an American country music artist. He has released three albums for RCA Records Nashville and a fourth for Montage Music Group...

, Matt King
Matt King (singer)
Matt King is an American country singer-songwriter. King was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. His mother, a real estate agent, played piano, and his father, who held jobs as an auctioneer, mason, and barber, played bluegrass guitar. Early in his career he was offered a position at...

, Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand
Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand
Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand is an American bluegrass group founded in the mid-1990s in Ogden, UT. The band's lineup comprises Ryan Shupe , Roger Archibald , Ryan Tilby , Craig Miner , and Nate Smeding...

, Little Texas
Little Texas
Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...

, Minnie Murphy, and The Road Hammers
The Road Hammers
The Road Hammers was a Canadian Country music group composed of Jason McCoy, Clayton Bellamy and Chris Byrne. Formed by McCoy as a side project, the trio's music is influenced by 1960s and 1970s trucker music and Southern rock. Their first self-titled album included remakes of several classic...

. All of these acts except Murphy had previously been signed to other labels.

The label was founded in May 2006 by Allen Butler, formerly the head of Sony Music Nashville. Little Texas was the first act signed to the label.

Parent company Hedgewood announced in February 2009 that the label was "reorganizing".
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