Tim Montana brings the 'Entire State' home to the Top Hat

The Butte-raised guitarist plays Missoula on Thursday, Feb. 18, behind an album stacked with Slash, Billy F Gibbons and Jerry Cantrell.

There's a particular kind of February night in Missoula when the cold is a good reason to be packed shoulder to shoulder on Front Street. On Thursday, Feb. 18, 2027, Tim Montana gives you one: the guitarist and songwriter plays the Top Hat on his Entire State Tour.

Logjam Presents has the details. Doors are at 7 p.m., the show is at 8, and it's all ages. Advance tickets are $27, or $33 the day of the show. They went on sale Friday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m., online and in person at Logjam's box offices. The Top Hat, at 134 W. Front St., holds about 550 and is typically general admission.

Montana is playing this state as a home game. He grew up off the grid in Elk Park, north of Butte, in a house without electricity, and started playing guitar at 6, per Wikipedia; KXLF has covered him as a Butte singer-songwriter making it in Nashville. After stops in Los Angeles and Nashville, he settled in Wise River in 2023, and recorded his 2024 album *Savage* there. The Missoula date is one of two in-state shows Logjam announced together: he plays The ELM in Bozeman a week earlier, on Feb. 11.

The tour is named for his newest record. *Entire State of Tim Montana* came out July 31 on BMG, and it's a guest list with songs attached: Slash, Billy F Gibbons and Jerry Cantrell all appear across its 16 tracks, and the opener, "Courtroom," features spoken cameos from Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen and Robert Patrick, per BroadwayWorld. Charlie Sheen suggested the title. "Brown Sugar," with Gibbons and Slash, and "Break Me Down" are among its singles.

He grew up north of Butte in a house without electricity. Now the record's guest list runs from Slash to Martin Sheen.

Montana has spent the last couple of years in big rock rooms, opening for Bush, Jerry Cantrell, Candlebox, Seether, Skillet and Myles Kennedy, according to his management. The Top Hat is the opposite of an amphitheater. That's the appeal. On this tour he's the headliner, and in a 550-person room, nobody is far from the guitar.

The Top Hat itself is a downtown Missoula institution and one of Logjam's core rooms, booked alongside the company's bigger stages. It's the kind of place where a country-leaning rocker with a hometown story can play to fans who found him through the album's guest list. Logjam has been busy filling the winter calendar there too: Whitey Morgan and the 78s announced Bozeman and Missoula shows the day before Montana did.

If you want in, the $27 advance price is the one to aim for. All-ages and general admission means the front of the room goes to whoever shows up early, so plan on doors. And if you've never caught him live, start with *Entire State of Tim Montana* — then bring a friend from Butte and see who knows him first.

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