The Best of The Kentucky Headhunters: Still Pickin'
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The Best of The Kentucky Headhunters: Still Pickin' is a greatest hits album released by American country rock band The Kentucky Headhunters. It was the first album collection of hits from the band's career up to that point. The album includes tracks from their first three studio albums, as well as "Let's Work Together" (from the soundtrack to Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man) and a cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away."
Content
The album reprises tracks fom the band's first three albums. "Dumas Walker", "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine", "Rock 'n' Roll Angel" and "Oh Lonesome Me" are from The Kentucky Headhunters' 1989 debut Pickin' on Nashville; "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line", "It's Chitlin' Time" and a cover of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" from Electric Barnyard; and "Honky Tonk Walkin'", "Dixie Fried" and "Redneck Girl" from Rave On!!. "Let's Work Together" was originally included on the soundtrack to the film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, and a cover of The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was also included on the 1994 tribute album Shared Vision: The Songs of the Beatles.
Track listing
Writer(s) |
Source album |
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"Dumas Walker" |
Greg Martin, Doug Phelps, Ricky Lee Phelps, Fred Young, Richard Young |
Pickin' on Nashville |
2:50 |
2. |
"Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine" (cover of Bill Monroe, 1970) |
Bill Monroe |
Pickin' on Nashville |
3:44 |
3. |
"Rock 'n' Roll Angel" |
R. Young |
Pickin' on Nashville |
3:51 |
4. |
"Oh Lonesome Me" (cover of Don Gibson, 1958) |
Don Gibson |
Pickin' on Nashville |
3:09 |
5. |
"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" (cover of The Wellingtons, 1954) |
George Bruns, Tom W. Blackburn |
Electric Barnyard |
2:34 |
6. |
"Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" (cover of Waylon Jennings, 1968) |
Ivy J. "Jimmy" Bryant |
Electric Barnyard |
3:10 |
7. |
"It's Chitlin' Time" |
Martin, D. Phelps, R.L. Phelps, F. Young, R. Young |
Electric Barnyard |
2:20 |
8. |
"Spirit in the Sky" (cover of Norman Greenbaum, 1969) |
Norman Greenbaum |
Electric Barnyard |
4:21 |
9. |
"Let's Work Together" (cover of Wilbert Harrison, 1962) |
Wilbert Harrison |
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
2:18 |
10. |
"Honky Tonk Walkin'" |
Anthony Kenney, Martin, Mark S. Orr, F. Young, R. Young |
Rave On!! |
3:46 |
11. |
"Dixie Fried" (cover of Carl Perkins, 1956) |
Carl Perkins |
Rave On!! |
2:10 |
12. |
"Redneck Girl" |
Kenney, Martin, Orr, F. Young, R. Young |
Rave On!! |
2:26 |
13. |
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (cover of The Beatles, 1965) |
John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
new for this release; later appears on Shared Vision: The Songs of the Beatles |
4:21 |
Personnel
The Kentucky Headhunters
- Greg Martin – electric guitar, slide guitar, background vocals
- Doug Phelps – bass guitar, background vocalsA
- Ricky Lee Phelps – lead vocals, harmonica, percussionA
- Fred Young – drums, percussion, background vocals
- Richard Young – rhythm guitar, background vocals
- Anthony Kenney – bass guitar, background vocalsB
- Mark S. Orr – lead vocals, background vocalsB
- APerformed only on tracks 1-9.
- BPerformed only on tracks 10-13.
Additional musicians
- David Wayne Jessie – tambourine on "Honky Tonk Walkin'"
- Richard Ripani – piano on "Honky Tonk Walkin'"
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Greg Martin · Doug Phelps · Fred Young · Richard Young
Anthony Kenney · Mark S. Orr · Ricky Lee Phelps
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