Posted on 11/29/2015 1:29:00 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Pickin On Nashville -Kentucky Headhunters
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The Kentucky Headhunters is an American country rock and Southern rock band. They were founded in 1968 as Itchy Brother, which consisted of brothers Richard Young (rhythm guitar, vocals) and Fred Young (drums) along with Greg Martin (lead guitar, vocals) and Anthony Kenney (bass guitar, vocals). Itchy Brother performed together until 1982, with James Harrison replacing Martin from 1973 to 1976. The Young brothers and Martin began performing as The Kentucky Headhunters in 1986, adding brothers Ricky Lee Phelps (lead vocals, harmonica) and Doug Phelps (bass guitar, backing vocals) to the membership.
With the release of their 1989 debut album Pickin' on Nashville via Mercury Records, the band charted four consecutive Top 40 country singles. A second album for Mercury, Electric Barnyard, did not do as well commercially, and the Phelps brothers left after its release to form Brother Phelps. Kenney re-joined and Mark S. Orr took over on lead vocals for 1993's Rave On!! and a compilation album entitled The Best of The Kentucky Headhunters: Still Pickin' before the band exited Mercury. Orr left and Doug Phelps rejoined in 1996 as lead vocalist for the album Stompin' Grounds. He also led on the Audium Entertainment albums Songs from the Grass String Ranch and Soul, as well as Big Boss Man and a second compilation, Flying Under the Radar, on CBuJ Entertainment. After Kenney's departure, Doug once again became the band's bass guitarist by the release of its next album, Dixie Lullabies, in 2011.
The Kentucky Headhunters have released eight studio albums, three compilations, and twenty-three singles, of which the highest-peaking is a cover of the Don Gibson song "Oh Lonesome Me," which the band took to number 8 in 1990. In addition, the band has won three Country Music Association awards, an Academy of Country Music award and a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, won in 1990 for Pickin' on Nashville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kentucky_Headhunters
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Saw them around ‘90 at the Bourbon Festival, I think they still perform there each year. Believe that was in Bardstown, Ky. I aint to sure of the details, I had sampled the wares that night.
Wondered if they broke up or what. Really liked their sound. In fact, got a CD laying around somewhere.....
When I was a kid of 16 you could go to about any bar with a dance floor and hear bands with that type of sound and quality just as good. I am from the mountains of Ky and back then if you could see over the bar you got in. We all had great times before the world changed.
My mom used to stop at a liquor store and pick up a 6 pack for my dad on the weekends. My mother found out that I was drinking cause the lady that owned the liquor store complimented her on what a fine job she had done raising me cause I had such great manners. It was a little tense round the house for a few days.
Nice to see they’re voting Republican down around Hazard. They finally realized Obama is killing the coal industry.
Started in 1970 so it wasn’t just Zero. They came for the small mines first now they have pretty much put all the big ones out. I was in the business in 70, we fought till 85 and in courts till 94. We put our first mine in in 40. The rest of America is just seeing what we saw in 70, we knew what would happen no one would believe it.
I am sorry to hear that. West Virginians are a little slow on the uptake. I couldn’t believe they elected Manchin to the Senate.
FYI, Black Stone Cherry drummer John Fred Young is the son of Kentucky Headhunters rhythm guitarist Richard Young.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone_Cherry
Good modern Southern hard rock band.
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