The Kentucky Headhunters

Now, last year was a rough one, but we had some pretty entertaining years with Stoops, and he's, he, in the Kentucky football, the atmosphere at the stadium is just something different this year, and I don't know if it's because of the AD.

And my question today is, do you think basketball is gonna change with the new AD? Are we going to not play, you know, Kentucky Headhunters at the end of the game and play some other music, or what do you think is, what do you think would make it a better atmosphere at UK basketball games? Not during, like, the big games, 'cause those are already good.

Right.

But I'm talking about the other games.

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I, I'm with you.

Like, I love Kentucky Headhunters.

Dumas Walker and My Old Kentucky Home after you win the game isn't exactly the most uplifting thing.

this one's not happening.

The Kentucky Headhunters.

Eddie Rabbitt.

Eddie Rabbitt.

But, you know...

The Kentucky Headhunters.

The Headhunters.

That

was the first one.

The Headhunters is my favorite.

Completely off the ceiling.

Yeah.

In addition to his love of fishing, Bobby Gentry loved music, and he could play just about any instrument, but his passion was the drums.

And just as he was a professional angler, he was a professional level drummer, often playing with top country acts like the Kentucky Headhunters.

One of the things I admired most about Bobby was that he pursued his passions and found ways to involve others in them, whether it was fishing or music.

I think there's a lesson there for all of us.

Ricky Lee Phelps was born in 1953.

Original lead singer of the Grammy Award winning country rock band the Kentucky Headhunters.

Lonnie Pitchford was born in 1955, a traditional blues man who helped to preserve the Deep Delta styles by handcrafting and performing on one-string diddly bows.

Brian Tovar was born in 2003, bass player and instrumentalist for the group Esloban Armado, which is a group that helped to revolutionize the modern regional Mexican sereno musical genre.

We've been blessed to have some really good artists over the last five years.

Daryl Worley, oh man, Jeremy Gentry, Kentucky Headhunters, Aaron Tiffin.

So it'd be nice to have two of you separate to that list.

Well, you add me to it and let me know when.

Quite a bit.

Wade, you and I sat down with the Kentucky Headhunters on an afternoon for, what, four or five hours.

And that chapter is written.

And I was able to kind of sit down on the phone with Teddy Gentry and got some of the Alabama perspective I liked.

That was the way you existed if you were in that level, whether it was a Van Halen or any of those bands, Motley Crue or going back to the 70s like Zeppelin, obviously, and Elton John and these other acts that were just at another level of superstardom.

Just to give the contrast, I have to mention the Kentucky Headhunters.

And I have no idea what it was like for those guys in the early 90s if they were sequestered off like that.

But those guys now, it's like Richard's like, hey, anything you guys need, just let me know.