Kentucky Headhunters
Holly Gleason
3rd + Lindley Re-Opening
Nashville, TN
21 July 2011
When the Kentucky Headhunters hit country music with a low rumble and those loud guitars, people
weren’t sure what to make of them. Looking like hillbilly cavemen, they sang and spoke with a drawl so
thick you could slice it and seemed to merge their Bill Monroe and Don…MORE
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Ramshackle rock from HeadHunters
Steve Wine
Huffington Post
October 17, 2011
Influences are easy to identify on the latest album from the ZZ Rolling Stax Brothers. The band’s name is actually the Kentucky HeadHunters, and they borrow from the best on “Dixie Lullabies.” The title cut creates a Stones-ish twin-guitar squall, while “Sugar Daddy” boogies like ZZ Top…MORE
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The Kentucky HeadHunters credit their beloved rundown practice house as the inspiration behind album No 12
Walter Tunis
Contributing Music Writer
Lexington Herald Leader
Richard Young was doing some dusting in the beloved “practice house” that has long been a refuge for
the veteran Metcalfe County rockers of The Kentucky HeadHunters. For more than four decades, from the days when the band was known as the roadhouse rock troupe Itchy Brother…MORE
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The Kentucky HeadHunters raise a ruckus
Nick Cristiano
The Philapelphia Inquirer (www.philly.com)
Dec 18, 2011
It’s been 22 years since the Kentucky HeadHunters raised a little ruckus with their highly entertaining
debut, Pickin’ on Nashville, and since then they haven’t changed all that much. The lineup might
have shifted for a while, but the current group consists of four…MORE
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The Kentucky Headhunters are still alive and cussin’
DIXIE LULLABIES
Release Date: October 18, 2011
By jeff taulton
Yes, The Kentucky Headhunters are still alive and cussin’. The legendary Alternative Country Southern Rock
band from the ‘90s “were” more than just a cool novelty act remaking old Bill Monroe Bluegrass songs after all. Following multiple CMAs and a Grammy, fast-forward to NOW…MORE
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Southern Rock Legends Kentucky HeadHunters
Find Their Muse In Familiar Place
October 13, 2011
By Ray Waddell
To step into the Practice House in ultra-rural Metcalfe County, Ky.-about 100 miles northeast of
Nashville and light years from any semblance of a music business-is to step into music history.
This house has spawned three serious rock’n'roll bands…MORE
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The Kentucky Headhunters kick off their 12th album Dixie Lullabies
Dixie Lullabies
by Jonathan Keefe
The Kentucky Headhunters kick off their 12th album, Dixie Lullabies, with something of a mission statement: A dual lead vocal between Richard Young and Doug Phelps cuts through a blustery Southern-rock riff (“It’s
time to get our rocks off, mama/And swing from the chandelier/Let’s…MORE
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The Kentucky HeadHunters put their hearts and souls into their latest album Dixie Lullabies.
Bowling Green News
By ALYSSA HARVEY, The Daily News
aharvey@bgdailynews.com
The members of The Kentucky HeadHunters put their hearts and souls into their latest album,
“Dixie Lullabies.” “We opened our chest and showed our heart. We tend to play off the cuff.”
“We’ve kind of grown up a little bit mentally,” Richard Young…MORE
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The Kentucky HeadHunters Review of Dixie Lullabies
William Ruhlmann
AllMusic
Originally consisting of the brothers Ricky Lee (vocals) and Doug (bass) Phelps, and Richard (rhythm guitar)
and Fred (drums) Young, plus the Youngs’ cousin Greg Martin (lead guitar), the Kentucky HeadHunters had
been playing together for over 20 years before they broke through…MORE
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The Kentucky Headhunters, Dixie Lullabies
Bill Bentley
Bentleys Bandstand
The Morton Report
Sometimes it’s plain hard being Southern. Even when hard-core fans hang tough and don’t forget where they came from, a lot of other fair-weather fans can be swayed by the fickle finger of cool and move on when it turns the other way. That doesn’t stop these revved-up renegades…MORE
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The Kentuck HeadHunter’s “Dixie Lullabies” is a guitar driven, well spent forty-nine minutes you will not want to miss
By ‘Rebel’ Rod Ames
Rebel Rod
I remember The Kentucky HeadHunters from twenty some odd years back, but remembered them as one of the better country bands of the time, then they were gone. After hearing “Dixie Lullabies” I was forced to go back and listen to their music and read up on them a bit. What…MORE
