Premiere: Montgomery Gentry's 'Headlights' lyric video

Headlights marks the first new music for country duo Montgomery Gentry in nearly three years.

The single's lyric video, directed by Patrick Tracy, premieres at USA TODAY.

Written by Wendell Mobley, Bob DiPiero and Tony Martin, Headlights is vintage MG, "a feel-good song with a really great beat," Troy Gentry says. "And it's got that Montgomery Gentry message of having a good time, laying back and looking for the weekend."

The single, which shipped to radio last week, is now available for digital download.

Gentry and Eddie Montgomery are in the final stages of recording the album with Michael Knox, who also has produced Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett and Trace Adkins.

"He's great at finding songs for us," Gentry says. "He gets us, knows what we singing about, knows our sound. He's able to go out and find those kinds of songs."

The Kentucky-bred duo first hit the country charts in 1999 with Hillbilly Shoes and subsequently reached No. 1 with If You Ever Stop Loving Me, Something to Be Proud Of, Lucky Man, Back When I Knew It All and Roll With Me. Their last album, Rebels on the Run, came out in 2011. The new album's due out on Blaster Records in early 2015.

"We're ready to be back," Gentry says. "We've got some in-your-face, uptempo stuff, which is what Eddie and I have always been about — songs for the folks out there that work all week long and like to have a good time on the weekend and hang out and let loose. We're trying to bring that party back to everybody."