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Kentucky Headhunters

The Kentucky Headhunters started as a family band in Western Kentucky, with brothers Richard and Fred Young and their cousin Ricky Lee Phelps. They took their...

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Kentucky Headhunters, a family band from Western Kentucky

A working-class country rock group that started on a dairy farm and broke through with their 1989 debut.

For their spirit, try "My Daddy Was a Milkman." For their sound, "Neck Of The Woods" gets the job done.

They came out of nowhere with "Pickin' on Nashville" in 1989, a record that felt like a back-porch jam session turned up loud. Songs like "My Daddy Was a Milkman" were just honest, funny stories about where they came from. They never tried to be Nashville slick, and that rough-around-the-edges sound gave country rock a different kind of heartbeat.

The band began with brothers Richard and Fred Young and their cousin Ricky Lee Phelps, taking their name from farm work. After adding members in the late '70s, their debut album arrived in 1989. They kept recording through lineup changes, putting out albums like "Electric Barnyard" and "Meet Me in Bluesland" decades later.

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The Kentucky Headhunters started as a family band in Western Kentucky, with brothers Richard and Fred Young and their cousin Ricky Lee Phelps. They took their name from their father's dairy farm work. In the late 1970s, they added drummer Kenneth Williams and bassist Greg Martin to round out the group.

Their 1989 debut album "Pickin' on Nashville" brought them attention with songs like "My Daddy Was a Milkman," a lighthearted track about their working-class background. They followed it with albums like "Electric Barnyard" and "Rave On" in the early 1990s.

Lineup changes came later, with Doug Phelps joining on bass in 2000 and Michael Pyle taking over drums in 1995. They kept recording through the 2000s and 2010s, putting out albums like "Meet Me in Bluesland" in 2014.

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