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American Roots Outdoors w/ Alex Rutledge
Richard Young - Kentucky Headhunters
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This week we are joined by Richard Young of the Kentucky Headhunters who talks about Roots of the Band including how their name came about and the timing of a Southern Rock Band in an era of the Hair Bands!
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You know, Roy Rogers did his last album and uh I never dreamed when we as little kids we got asked to sing the lead-off song on his last album.
SPEAKER_05Oh wow.
SPEAKER_08And who wouldn't know that as a kid that you would uh watching Roy Rogers show it one day and uh you'd get to sing on a record with him. And that was a picture real. Well, what was that other show?
SPEAKER_09Camel boots on my feet, bow in my hand, walking in the early dawn to climb the room.
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SPEAKER_02You go to yi smartcam.com. I'm using YouTube to make your happy Wi-Fi Legacy Farming Land presents. Welcome to American Roots Outdoors. We are in the studio at K Country 95. And in the studio, Red Bone Mike Craig's Wayne Locke. Guys, it's football season. It is fall. It's close.
SPEAKER_10Fall is close.
SPEAKER_02It's close.
SPEAKER_10Football season. Friday night lights. By the time y'all hear this, another Friday week three will be gone already. Yeah, we're all and two. We're one and one.
SPEAKER_02Well, we play you guys Friday night. Yeah. And uh we've got to do some changes. We've got to move some guys around. Uh we I mean, we had uh Adrian 14 to nothing at one time. And we come back and let 'em beat us. They're really good. Discipline, discipline, discipline, discipline. You can't make mistakes. And that's what we're doing. We've got a bunch of young players, and hey, we're good. We just we're not consistent. We'll get it together. I think we'll be a light blooming, really good team. We just got to figure things out. Uh I think we got good coaches, you know. Janssen Acklin. Uh you know, his dad's one of the greatest coaches ever hit the Ozarks. You know? So he'll figure it out. The Chiefs. The Chiefs play tomorrow night. Thursday.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, as we record Wednesday, yeah, Thursday. No Chris Jones, and it looks like now no Travis Kelsey. What? He hyperextended his knee at practice yesterday and is doubtful for the game. Although they did find out again, we're we're recording on Wednesday. They did find out there was no structural damage and no torn ligaments. So it's just a matter of getting the swelling to go down and see if he can play through the paint. Yeah. They officially have called it a bone brew.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Those are nasty.
SPEAKER_10Those are nasty.
SPEAKER_06Those are nasty. Yes. What about the Cleveland Browns? Cleveland. You know what? You're the only person that asked about the Cleveland Browns, because even in Cleveland, they don't ask about the Cleveland Browns. But no, I'm looking forward to the Steelers. Uh game they play the 49ers this week. Pickens and Pickett, I think I'm telling you, it's going to be the combo to beat this year for our division, I'm talking. You know, Cincinnati, of course, they're going to be good. I'm going to tell you right now, if I may interrupt, Cincinnati's going to be the team to beat.
SPEAKER_02They have been on time the last couple years. I'm telling you, that that quarterback they got, hey, he can thread a needle. That boy is good. Burroughs. Baltimore do do it does pretty good.
SPEAKER_10All I got to say is the Super Bowl champions are the team to beat until they are no longer Superbowl.
SPEAKER_02Exactly right. You're exactly right. You are. The Chiefs are going to be good, but talk about Jones real quick. What happened? They just could not come to an agreement. They're $10 million apart. Only 10 million.
SPEAKER_10Now fire change. Well only ten million. Well when you're talking about two hundred million, that's really not that much money. So here's the deal. Just today the guy from San Francisco signed a deal making him the richest uh paid uh defensive player in history. So that throws another monkey rent because now Jones is going to want to make even more than a money. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_10So the thing that bothers me about this guy is is uh they're already making you know seventeen million a year. That's what Chris Jones is due this year. Seventeen million. He's being fined $100,000 a day for every day he misses camp. You sign the contract. Now think about this. You're Patrick Mahomes a year ago. You restructure your contract, took a pay cut so they could sign Chris Jones for two more years.
SPEAKER_02So he played with the helm. He went to the helm for Jones.
SPEAKER_10Yes. So did Kelsey. Now Jones played one year. This year he's under contract.
SPEAKER_02He'd done them wrong.
SPEAKER_10But he refuses to go play.
SPEAKER_02He done Kelsey in the home play.
SPEAKER_10I know sports are a little bit different than regular business. But if it was a regular business, he would be in breach of contract. He's under contract till the end of the year.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, there's a couple of Steelers that did that back in the um early 2000s or late 90s. And and the the Roonies were very simple. Don't honor your contract, you don't play. They just let them sit the year out. They didn't they they refused to get them back.
SPEAKER_10Well that that's kind of what the Chiefs have done now.
SPEAKER_06That's good.
SPEAKER_10But anyway, so unfortunate. Current events. Yeah, I got a couple of things here. I mentioned this last week. The Mammoth Springs Fish Fest. That was just a cool deal about the Mammoth Springs Fish Catcher. All kids 1200 can go in and they got the pond stocked with catchfish. Anywhere from one or two pounds all the way up there from five or six pounders. They can go in and get to catch three people and take them home and you know have them for dinner or whatever. You know, if you're like Wayne's got a family of 47 You can catch enough fish to last for a year. Anyway, that'll be on uh Saturday, September 23rd. Again, that's over behind the Mamas Spring State Park. They're also going to have a BB gun and an archery range to teach kids how to shoot. That'll be from 11 to 1, free lunch for all the kids that go to participate, and uh the fishing derby is from 9 to 1 for ages 15 and under.
SPEAKER_02I've got a couple announcements to make. Uh CRSA Kurt River Smallmouth Association is having their September tournament this coming weekend at Van Bureau, Missouri. Uh you can pay rental fees uh on arrival there. You pay at Watercrest Landing. Also, the River Masters Elite Series Classic Championships will be held September 30th at Van Bureau, Missouri. There is eight qualifiers that made the classic championships out of the series. We will be giving away, Wayne, you're gonna love this, 10 ride and reel combos to kids at this weigh-in. So bring your kids to the weigh-in at 4 o'clock, September 30th at Watercrust Landing. We're giving away 10 ride and reel combos, Red Bow.
SPEAKER_10That's really cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we want to get kids. The whole message behind Rivermasters is to get kids involved in fishing. You know, we're trying to get something back. You know, we got all these great support from all these sponsors all across the country and our local sponsors. Uh, we thank them very much. It's uh 25 of them at our large a piece. So think about that.
SPEAKER_06So my son won the last one. He won one, and then he had uh Rick York, he bugged York to uh show him how to want dad to show him. He wanted Rick York to show Mr. show him how to get out there and do it. He had a blast with it.
SPEAKER_10Before we uh take the break, I know we've got a special guest before we do our show. It's gonna be huge. I I know all about these. I've missed these shows that they play.
SPEAKER_02Well, let me just start with October 7th. They're gonna be playing live in concert at Van Bureau, Missouri. Yeah, at the landing.
SPEAKER_10Before we go there, I mentioned last week we had the car show at Mammoth Spring. Alex, you missed it. Oh, I know. I couldn't do it. 270. Oh my god. Over 300 cars at the Mammoth Spring.
SPEAKER_02I drove my double nickel to the studio today. Cool. Yeah. Hey everybody, when we come back, our special guest, if you love country pop rock, country rock, southern go billy's gone wild. Kentucky headhunters Richard Young will be joining us in the next segment. Don't go away. We'll be right back with more American Roots Outdoors right after this.
SPEAKER_07Hey y'all, it's Tyler Farr, and you're listening to my good buddy, Mr. Alex Rutledge on American Roots Outdoors.
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SPEAKER_02If you want to help the deer heart, use buck grits. Fueled by Hornedy Percent. Welcome back to American Reach Outdoors. We have one of the greatest groups in Country Rock that you've ever heard of on the phone. And as promised, Richard Young of the Kentucky Headhunters is on the phone with us right now. This Hillbilly, Kentucky boy is going to bring it to us today, folks. Richard, welcome to the show. All right. Well, thank you, man.
SPEAKER_08It's Richard Owen Young on the phone. Mr. Kentucky. Yeah, all right. No, I'm not a Tommy. Okay. I'm a Richard. I'm a Richard. You're a Richard.
SPEAKER_02I love it. I love it. I love it. Have you been Owen? Okay. Obnoxious. Have you been finding any arrowheads? Because I know you love to look for arrowheads.
SPEAKER_08I can't be telling you about what I found. Yeah. Yeah, man, I've had a I've had a pretty good year. You know, I started, guys, when I was 10 years old. You know, of course, we live down here on the farm, and uh, Beaver Creek starts as a farm and uh comes out of a cave. It's not very big right there, but we've got a lot of big springs, bubble springs and things. And then we've got another big cave uh up next to my son's house. And uh it's almost like another creek coming out of there. And uh so that all that area through here on our farm, uh it's 700 acres, so the creek runs through it, and it's uh three some pretty good bottoms down there, and we've got uh uh you know, we used to just have hay in it, and a buddy of mine, David Wilson, he started raising the biker on us again. You know, all my all my schoolmates, they became professional farmers and and we became uh amateur musicians. You know. But yeah, I've been finding some pretty good stuff. Um the uh you gotta wait till the moon's right though. You know, the when the moon's a certain way, it pulls rocks up to the top of the ground. Wait a minute, say that. I that's what I say on this. I don't I I don't understand the s the uh scientific side of it, but I do know that uh when there's a full moon out of that full moon I can find more stuff, especially red moon. But uh, you know, the biker now it's it's over your head, so I can't hunt. But I I've had a pretty good spring season and uh it's it's good exercise, you know. You can once they plow the ground and they just get to set to the biker and it'll come a good rain, then uh that's a good time to hunt it. Uh I'm not much on them walking that plowed ground when they first plow it because it's uh it's a stifle. Matter of fact, I got my hamstring messed up not now from that, but uh if you get out there and uh and uh you know in uh after a good rain and then uh those arrowheads will shine like new money and things.
SPEAKER_02I got a question for you, Richard. Richard. Yeah question for you. You you you told us you were born and raised there in Kentucky. What town? Somerset? Is that right?
SPEAKER_08No Danville. No, no, no, honey. We're we're from South Central Kentucky. We uh we were raised uh our farm is between Edmonton and Glasgow, Kentucky.
SPEAKER_02Okay, Glasgow. So so tell us about your roots. Tell us about you and Freddie, your family, real quick. We got about uh we got several minutes left here. Go ahead, tell us about your roots, your family.
SPEAKER_08Um our family moved here. I guess it uh all this acreage and things, some of it came from uh part of our farm came from uh we had a uh distant, uh very distant uh uncle that or cous uh excuse me, grandpa that was in the uh Revolutionary War, who was one of the uh you know, the main officers of Nathaniel Green, and when the Revolutionary War was over, so a lot of his officers were given uh plots of ground you know, in the the state that they were from. And that's been Kentucky. We got uh uh you know a land grant uh of quite a bit of land and uh on one farm and then uh that's over on the other side of the the road though. But uh daddy's been able to hang on to 235 acres of that and it's never had a fence on it, but um we uh we live down here on the farm in uh in Mac County, and uh my grandma, Effie Young, she bought uh an extra hundred acres of land oh, I think it was 1966 or 67 and uh and added on to the farm and uh people started wanting to rent. There was an old crapboard farmhouse on the creek there, and they wanted to she they wanted to rent it and she didn't want Bill renting out property or whatever. So she got the wild idea to let her grandsons and their two cousins uh move into uh this old farmhouse and practice our music because we're driving mom and daddy crazy down there. And uh that's really where where we started, Ed. I mean, at the old practice house, and I mean pretty much I mean it's still standing, we still go in there and rehearse and write songs, that sort of thing. And uh and of course Blackstone Carry, my son's band 20 years ago, when they got out of high school, they said, Well, we gonna well it wasn't even out of high school. They said, Daddy, we won't start a band, Chris, man, and we won't move an old practice house. And I thought, well, burn it down. But anyway, they you know what? I told them I laid the rules down. I said, Well, you gotta help me creep it clean and uh, you know, take care of it just like we have. And uh they were actually better at it than we were, you know, and they bring the girlfriends down there and let them mop the floor to clean the house. They practice, but um, you know, that's kind of where the the whole uh uh music scene from this area came from. And uh just to add to it, I'll back up in a minute, but I wanted to tell you that for the bluegrass listeners out there is uh right down the creek from Beaver Creek, go a little ways down the creek was where Courtney Johnson lived, the great banjo player who played in New Graduate Five. And uh so they used to practice there down the creek, and we was up there with uh rock and roll ramps and drums, and uh there was there was an old man that lived down the creek in between us, and he said, Y'all gonna have to pick different times practice. Uh when y'all both practice, I can't sit out in the yard of the evening that messes up my equilibrium. Says uh on one ear I'm hearing the banjo some pebbles and mammons, and the other I'm hearing all these old loud drums and guitars. And he said it meshes is his thinking of his equilibrium. So but uh that that down here is where we got started, and of course Fred and I live down here at Mom and Daddy's on the farm, and and we uh you know, we raised the biker and and corn beans now, but uh back then, you know, the main cash crop in Kentucky was the biker, and all the farmers around here that the different farmers own land, it's you know, it's different now. They they they have more equipment and that sort of thing. But um back in the day uh you we had uh uh white families and African American families that had farms and they all joined each other, and uh they would move into one farm uh where the debacle was, and they would help set it and they would help, you know, uh cut it and put it in the barn. And then they'd move to the next fella's farm. And when they would come to their farm, Daddy and them would have us out there dropping the backer sticks. I don't know if a lot of people know what a debacle stick is. It's about a four-foot stick uh by an inch and a quarter square, and that's what you uh when you cut to the backer, you put it on those uh those sticks by about five points of it, pretty heavy, and with a spike, and they'd run a spike to it, and then it would hang it in the tobacco barn until it cured, and then they strip to the biker and carry it to the market. But uh what was great about it is you know, uh we weren't big country music people, y'all. We we grew up and uh, you know, uh our parents listened to Benny Goodman and things like that, more jazz and ri and uh, you know, uh that sort of music. Uh, you know, Frank sonatra or whatever. And uh, you know, so when we would we got our education into the bicycle fields because uh there was all these families would come together and you'd have you'd have guys imitating Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis and you'd have people, you know, imitating uh Hank Williams and and then uh you'd you'd have these great uh African American spirituals been sung by by the African American families. And so all when we was dropping these tobacco sticks, we'd all uh we we didn't realize it, but we were absorbing that like a sponge. Yeah. Yeah. And uh and you know, it it in years you look back as a kid, of course we were staunch rockers. We grew up listening to, you know, English rock bands like Cream and Free and uh a lot of those groups, you know. And of course the Beagles and the Stones. Richard.
SPEAKER_02Um Richard. Yeah I'm sitting there as you're saying all those names, Red Bone saying we gotta take a break, but this is so good. Man, he's naming bands that I love. Hey, we're gonna have to go to a break here, Richard. Don't go away because we got more. How long have I got? Oh, you you got eight minutes per segment. You only went ten and a half minutes that time. So eight minutes per segment.
SPEAKER_08You you I mean, how long have I got till the next one starts?
SPEAKER_02Oh, five seconds. We're gonna go to a break. Oh, okay. All right, I'm good. Now don't hang up. We're going to break up and we come back. We got more. We got more of Richard Young after this. Don't go away.
SPEAKER_00This is Brenda Valentine, and you're listening to American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and friends.
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SPEAKER_02Hey guys, it's food plot planting time here in the Ozarks and all across the country. What are you planting this year, Wayne?
SPEAKER_06I'm gonna put a smortgage board in with a whole lot of clover.
SPEAKER_10Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, clover at? What? Mortgage board? What is smortgage board?
SPEAKER_06Man, it is a variety of annuals and perennials that'll get you through fall time, wintertime, and all the way into spring.
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SPEAKER_10Let me throw something out there because I've I've always wondered and never had an opportunity to ask Richard, and I've interviewed him a couple different times before. Richard, Itchy Brother. That was the original name for the Kentucky 800. Where did that come from?
SPEAKER_08Well, let me back up. First we should explain to everybody that from 1968 to 1985 is our band was called Itchy Brother. And we uh we uh you know w when we uh started an old music house by by the mid-70s, we've gotten pretty good 'cause we had a little place to Atlanta strip. And uh we started playing uh you know, like uh Bone Green, Kentucky was a was a hot spot uh when the Southern Rock hit. And there was a couple of great Southern Rock bars there and uh they were hosting bands like Charlie Daniels and the Outlaws and you know Hydra and all these great groups and we we actually were able, uh J.R. Spillman owned it and he was a friend of family, and he would let us come down and open for all these bands. So we were still in high school, we were getting the to open for these bands like this, and we couldn't stay in there, we just play, and then we had to take our gear out, and back then we didn't have a van or anything. Daddy would carry it down there in a pickup truck for us. And uh you know, we get but we would stand there at the back door of the yellow hydrant, they would leave it open, that's where he loads equipment in now, and it was always hot in there and had no air conditioning. And so we would stand as kids on the sidewalk out there and and watch for the with you know, watch the bands that we had played with, like uh oh, I don't know, Outlaws, Charlie Daniels, whoever we got to play with. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and you know, uh Iron Butterfly, whoever but we got to play with, you know, when we were still in high school and and when we got out of high school we went to uh you know, to they they've been watching us like ball players. We'd gotten pretty good and we were playing, you know, uh down south and up north. By that time we had a bread truck and a couple of us had a driver's license and uh I can't believe our parents let us run up down the road in a bread truck. Uh Capricorn Records showed an interest in us and that was nineteen seventy-six I guess. And about that time, boys, what was going on was uh Disco was setting in the big cities. And we just kinda got there a little the train had kinda left of a sudden got there. And uh it's back now but it it gone and and uh we were down there, you know, uh being groomed to be uh a Southern Rock band uh down there in that area and uh we hoped we would capture records and uh you know then Ronnie Van Saint and those guys and Leonard Skinner had their their bad luck and had a plane crash and the next morning we kinda just got up, looked at each other and said, they ain't nobody gonna sign a Southern Rock band right now. So we came home and of course we we met uh a year later we met Mitchell Fox who worked for Led Zeppelin and they had their own record label called uh Swan Song.
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SPEAKER_08And I'm sure a lot of listeners remember sw ha that big man with the wings on the label and all that, and they showed an interest in us and started working with us and we were doing some tapes and hoping, you know, hide high hopes to be on Swan Song Records and then the drummer John Bonham passed away in nineteen eighty, which pretty much dissolved that opportunity and sadly enough, uh Led Zeppelin. Uh but uh to go back and ask uh answer that question that you boys asked, I I wanted to catch you up to speed about how much hardship and also how much hard work and a lot that went on uh through those itchy brother years. But that name, uh when we started in nineteen sixty eight, uh Fred and Ant and Anthony, our cousin, they were just eleven years old. And uh we the only time we could practice was on Saturday because we went to school of course. And uh we would all be down at mom and daddy's but Fred and and uh Anthony, they wouldn't go p to the practice house. Uh I mean imagine imagine them little kids, I mean, playing drums and get their n y'all I don't know how that they actually got that much better when they was older. They was good. And uh but it was funny because they wouldn't wouldn't uh go to the music house and practice with me and Greg until they got to eat their uh uh cows corn plate and wanted their cartoon. I mean that's a proof. And uh you know, and and it's like uh uh the one cartoon I don't know of some folks will remember it out there, it was called Bongo Congo, and it was a uh uh there was two lines, one of them was called King Leonardo, and he had a uh a subject uh that was uh a real safe guy that helped him call was a skunk named Oei Kalodi. And then it was kind of a uh real scraggly, a brother of his. He didn't mount much. He was uh a little lightweight, but he was called Itchy Brother, and uh and he had this guy that looked kind of like a he was a rat, but he was dressed up like a gangster. And uh that was Biggie Rat, and Biggie Rat wanted to control Bongo Congo, so he was using Itchy Brother to get to his brother. So, you know, it it's kind of trying to overthrow the king. And uh we just thought since that was cartoon, that name, it was pretty cool, and we thought, well, if if we gotta watch you know, Itchy Brother, we'll just call the band that. And that that's where that name came from.
SPEAKER_02Wow, that's pretty dang cool, man. That's American roots right there.
SPEAKER_08Oh well, yeah, it's it's m American something. American something.
SPEAKER_06I'm thinking to myself, uh you know, at least they weren't watching Scooby-Doo. This could have taken a whole nother turn.
SPEAKER_08That was Scooby-Doo came along a little after uh after our time, but you know, there wasn't just this Itchy brother. We had to watch um, you know, Roy Rogers and Pete and Dale Evans and Kugger and uh Bullet and all that and different ones. Lone Ranger and uh Yeah, Lone Ranger. You know what was really uh one of our things that I have the most memory about is you know, Roy Rogers did his last album and uh I never dreamed when we as little kids we got asked to sing the lead off song on his last album. Oh wow that you would uh watching Roy Rogers' show it one day and uh you'd get to sing on the record with him. And that was a big deal. Well, what was that other show we watched? Uh uh, y'all know y'all saw it, Sky King. Sky King and Captain Kangaroo. Airplane, wasn't that great? Captain Kangaroo.
SPEAKER_10They don't make TV like that anymore. And Richard, we need to take another break. Folks, we'll be back more with Richard Young of Itchy Brothers, aka the Kentucky headhunter.
SPEAKER_08And the Kentucky head-up.
SPEAKER_04Kentucky headhunter. Right after this. Hey everybody, this is Michael Waddell with Bone Collector, and you're listening to my buddy Alex Rutledge on American Roots Outdoors, man.
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SPEAKER_02Welcome back to American Roots Outdoors. What a great show we've covered so far with Richard John Wayne, Redbone talking about his American Roots. Uh I never knew their band was called that before that.
SPEAKER_06No, I had no idea either. That was that was I'm still getting over the fact that who he who he opened for in that last hour. That's just mind-blowing to watch him as a kid. You grew up watching them and then.
SPEAKER_10Which was written by the king of bluegrass, Bill Munro. That's correct. That is correct. How in the world did you say make up?
SPEAKER_08Bill Monroe and Jake Landers. Yeah, Jake Landers, right? And uh, you know, we were talking y'all earlier about how thought Southern Rock people we were in blues and and uh I mean if somebody told me in the mid-70s, late seventies, even early eighties, that we were gonna put an album out in uh country music that was gonna change our lives, I'd run 'em out of the room, a laughed at them. And uh, you know, we were just real lucky guys. You know what happened was it was a different time than uh Marty Stewart said best. We said they raised the wind up by the crack and we crawled in. But uh and that's that's true because, you know, country music what we do is way different than normal country music. But what people liked about the Headhunters from day one is they like the jazzed up rock music that they grew up with. And but the what we had was rural sensibilities in our lyrics. And uh if if you recall about you know, about the time we came out in nineteen ninety, uh uh MTV had was going they it was uh what we call higher metal rock great bands like Guns N' Roses and uh you know, Motley Crue, uh Cinderella, all friends of ours. But bands that were in in that era, they were doing uh the uh audience was different. So a lot of folks that really like uh Rootie folks, maybe that didn't didn't dig that as much on CME on MTV, uh, were drawn to a new marketplace which was called CMT. And we were very lucky because at the time CMT was privately owned and uh the guy this you know, they needed as much good talent and video footage as they could get to run on that thing. And of course the the uh most of the bands or the acts in country music were a little more laid back than the headhunters. And uh Randy Travis and whoever, uh George Drake, you know, friends of ours, but they they weren't uh they they weren't one that would jump through hoops, you know, and fire and stuff. I mean we were uh we were um entertainers and comedians besides players. And so uh all of a sudden uh our videos started coming out on CMT and it's like it it kind of filled a void for uh the old rocker crowd uh that grew up with the Leonard Skinners and grew up with the uh you know, the Led Zeppelins and and uh whoever that those bands. Charlie Daniels, you know, and Marshall Tuckers and uh Marshall Tucker. It gave it gave us it gave us it gave us more boost than anything because naturally when we first came out, our first the walks off it came out on radio and it it terrified country radio. I mean they couldn't see playing it the most people and uh gosh, I think if I look back it's it's kinda funny because you look back, I think that song only went to like twenty five in the charts. Yeah, wow and it was like it was a it was a it was a uh world changing song I guess for for music in the country or rock and rock or whatever, but uh video's what really broke us, y'all. It made uh it made it it made uh uh radio have to take a look at us because still in those days you remember uh you could still call most radio stations up and say, Hey, play that new song by so-and-so. I want to hear it, you know? Hey Richard. And uh Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I I I told Wayne the story before we hit the air today while we're waiting on Alex to get here. Uh I remember back then I was on the air and playing Walk Softly on this heart of mine, and the phone rang, guy said, Hey, well, thank you for playing my boy's record. And I was like, Pardon me? And uh it was uh the the Phelps brothers, it was their dad. Yeah. He was just driving through. He said, That's the first time I've heard that on the other side.
SPEAKER_08You know what, man, I remember author telling me about that.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Yeah, so Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that song was written actually by Bill Monroe and Jake Landers. Jake Landers was from Mostal Shows, Alabama. And uh that that song uh came in uh you know, originally the head owners are like they were now, just me, Fred, Doug, and Greg starting in eighty six. And Doug's brother, Ricky, joined later.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_08And uh he actually brought that song to us and said, We ought to do a bluegrass song. And he started playing on acoustic guitar, and we're like, No, man, that don't fit us. And I said, Let's let's mix it up. So that's that's when I came up with that intro with that heavier guitar and everybody just kind of kicked in and uh you know it it's it was a jam.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_08And we never changed it. I mean, we really just jammed on it, and it but it really it it really fit the band.
SPEAKER_06And I think you guys coming in, uh Richard, I think you guys coming in on CMT when they were new, you came in at the right time because you know, if you're if those listening to CMT, you know you had Clint Black play it, then you'd have Patty Loveless play, and then when your song would come on out, it would make some it would it would make some heads turn quite.
SPEAKER_08We're all friends of ours, and we love it. But it was more it was more uh standard country, right?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it made some heads heads whip around when that song came on and people were just in their house listening to CMT.
SPEAKER_10Well, you know, one of the one of the things too, Richard, is was once once we saw you on video and and and you know got a got a chance to look at you guys, and those of us that were old rockers, we're like, Oh, we're sure glad they're not wearing spandex.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02They were overalls.
SPEAKER_08I guess so.
SPEAKER_02They were overhauls, buddy.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I was. Johnny Winters met us at the uh American Music Awards. He came over and he said, I love you guys. Y'all play in your work clothes. That's right. I love you. And Minnie Pearl, when we met her, which what what a a great lady and you know, anybody that's uh I had never seen Minnie Pearl, you know, outside of just the you know, the the hat and with a s the tag and all that. And we would see Minnie at functions, and let me tell you something. You talking about a high class dresser. I mean, you would see her and she'd have on like a a lint a beige linen dress and her hair done up. It was a different person.
SPEAKER_06Right, and she never changed throughout the year. She never changed. Hey, Richard, I know Mark. We have to wrap the radio show up here. We're gonna have to wrap the radio show up here.
SPEAKER_08You know what she did? She came up to me and she said, I love you boys.
SPEAKER_02Hey Richard, we're gonna wrap up the radio show. Then hang on here and we're gonna do a bonus segment for the podcast. That is great about Minnie Pearl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't wait to hear more about it. Well, man, hey, I got are we off the air? No, hold on, hold on. No, I mean we ain't talking now, right? Yeah, we've got to. Let us wrap the show up. Hold on.
SPEAKER_06So we're gonna listen to more. If you want to listen to more of Richard, just tune into the your favorite podcast carrier on your uh Apple, Spotify, iTunes, whatever. Catches the bonus segment there. Remember, when your roots run deep and strong, there's no reason to fear the way.
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SPEAKER_10Great story for Richard.
SPEAKER_02He's on the fly with us right now. Well, what a great story about his roots and and how their music evolved and uh his family roots and you know the people he's met and all the friends that he had. And you know, you guys are a lot like Elvis Presley Kentucky Headers, man. You guys are huge over here in the Ozarks, and that being said, October the 7th, Van Buren, Missouri, the Atlantic Riverfront right there along the Kurt River, October 7th. The Kentucky Headers will be live. And there's gonna be two or three other bands opening up before the Kentucky Headers go on stage. It's gonna be a huge turnout. And uh you can get your tickets online at the KF95, KKOZ, KWOC, KAPE. They're all gonna be marketing it. And uh we're gonna we wanna see a big turnout for these guys. These guys are turkey hunters, deer hunters, and they are hillbilly's gone wild, Redbone.
SPEAKER_10Hey, there's any chance I could get like a free ticket in a backstage passport. Oh, sure. Because that's my birthday.
SPEAKER_02Hey, Richard, you think we can get Redbone in the backstage with us?
SPEAKER_08Uh yeah. Yeah, well sure. We uh you know us, we know so many people in every state that there's more people backstage than there is outside.
SPEAKER_02Well, do you remember the first time you and I met personally met? Do you can you remember it? Well, we're talking about hunting, I know that. Well, here's what we did. You you was playing the casino in St. Charles, Missouri, up in St. Louis, and I was doing the Mass Pro shop, and I pulled into my motel room. I can't even remember the name of the motel's fancy motel, and there I seen Freddie standing out front and he was spitting chewing tobacco. And I said to myself, when I walked in, I said, I know that freaking guy. I've seen that guy. Then all of a sudden you're in there checking into your room. You walk up to me and you go, dude, Alex. That's what you said. Alex.
SPEAKER_08Well, wait a minute. I've seen you on the on the deer hunting show.
SPEAKER_02Yes. You said, You're Alex Rutledge. I know you. I watched your videos. I know you, buddy. I'm a deer hunter and took it. My buddy brother Freddie's outside. So we went outside and we talked for an hour before we went to the motel room.
SPEAKER_08I r I remember that now. And you was driving some kind of snazzy car.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yellow pickup. Hunter specialist yellow and green truck. And the next day, here's what Richard done for me. You ready? He blew Bass Pro's mind. He came in there during my seminar and talked to everybody. Wow. Richard did. People went crazy over you, didn't they, Richard?
SPEAKER_08They did, they're not. Well, I I don't if I would have gone crazy because I was in there and wanting me to go leave. Hey, but now I can't leave here without saying something about uh, you know, besides all this other mess I fool with the head on us, you know. Blackstone Blackstone carries my son's band. He's a crazy drummer. And I helped get them started. But I gotta tell you, y'all already, some of y'all have probably done seen them. There's a new band I'm working with. I'm a gruton for punishment to try to help young folks.
SPEAKER_05Yep.
SPEAKER_08And I saw this band in Georgia and they blew my mind. I thought I'd found a time capsule. I bet I've heard it. And if y'all get a chance, uh, we got the new album coming out on them. Black oh, Blackstone Cherry's new album comes out September 29th.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_08And uh we got a new single coming out on the Thunderbolts, Georgia Thunderbolts be out the 14th.
SPEAKER_02Yep, Thunderbolts.
SPEAKER_08If you if you like if you like the headhunters and and you like the fact that we grew up down here on the farm and all this mess is coming out of here in Kentucky, then y'all check it out. We'd appreciate any listens.
SPEAKER_06You bet, Richard. Yeah, I'll make sure I put a link down to uh their stuff too so people can check them out even further.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Richard, we need we need could you think we could get something signed by all of you guys, maybe an autograph picture, uh a cap or something that we can give away on our podcast to our listeners, we'll draw a name. Do you think we can get one sentence?
SPEAKER_08Well, you reckon, well, yeah, well, I mean, of course you can.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Well, listen Are you gonna do at that show? Well, you know, I'm gonna be there with you.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna be there with you. I'm gonna bring my double nickel, my fifty-five Shivvy. You get in early, we're gonna go cruising around. Well, the car show that day.
SPEAKER_08Well, listen, Alec, here's what we need to do. Is you need to tell me and I'll get we'll get uh two or three items together, some nice things. Okay we get y'all like an LP from Mont Safari, that would flip people out. Yes, you know, a couple of camouflage caps.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_08We'll do we'll do several things. Don't worry about that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, well what we'll do is Wayne, tell them how we do this, the podcast, how we give away stuff.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, we have a couple different ways. A lot of times we'll uh have them leave us a review and then we'll draw a name of everybody that's left a review on the podcast, and uh we'll give them a uh a lucky item from that that episode, from that guest from that episode, or we'll run a thing on Facebook, uh, you know, some kind of a contest, you know, uh like we had one where we did a recipe book that a guy autographed, and somebody all they had to do was like leave a recipe, their favorite recipe, and then we just drew out of that. So there's all kinds of different things we can do.
SPEAKER_08Why y'all wait a minute? I just thought of something. Uh Alec, you need to remind me we need to give y'all a couple of our new albums.
SPEAKER_02Yes, so we give away on a live show. We give away on the live show.
SPEAKER_08So y'all, y'all ain't heard the last one. That that's a badass dude. It's uh uh it's called That's a Fact Jack. Oh, I like it.
SPEAKER_05That's a fact jack.
SPEAKER_08We cut it during COVID. They said we shouldn't get together, but we did.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yeah. I was listening to that on the way in here.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Yeah. And uh y'all need to have Alec listen that. Oh, yeah, I'm right. I'm gonna listen to the song. Let's all get together and fight.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Are you coming in that morning to Van Buren early or what time you think you're gonna arrive?
SPEAKER_08Well, it'd be early, but I can't mess with y'all too early now. I uh I'm old, I gotta sleep.
SPEAKER_02Well, we're gonna go eat us a good breakfast.
SPEAKER_08Well, that ain't gonna happen with me because I don't get up before breakfast. All right, what time do you want me to pick you up? I don't know. Maybe I'll get some sleep that night.
SPEAKER_05All right, all right.
SPEAKER_08Well, listen, I'll be back. Well, don't bother Fred, though, because he don't get up till 4 o'clock.
SPEAKER_06Well, when you don't go to bed till 5 o'clock.
SPEAKER_02Well, there you have it, everybody. Richard Young, Kentucky headhunters, go follow these guys, buy their albums, buy their iTunes music, support these guys. They are true American hillbilly's gone wild.
SPEAKER_10And be at the show and be at the show Banu.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_08You get to meet Richard and pretty. Alec, listen to me. Yeah. If uh I'll go to bed early. If we're gonna go eat some eggs and bacon and sausage and toast, I I'll get up. Okay, well, we'll talk between now and then. Well, yes, sir. And guys, I want to tell you how much I appreciate you having me for the headhunters on the show. And uh getting to talk about Itchy Brother and the Black Stone Cherry and Georgia Thunderbolts and the Headhunters and Roy Rogers and everything.
SPEAKER_02Well, I can tell you this, Richard. Every guy here in this studio listening to you right now recording this, loves you. They love your band. Uh you are America. That's all I got to say.
SPEAKER_08Well, I'm yeah, I'm I'm American, all right. Down here in this holiday, I'm down here at Mom and Daddy's. I got 17 cats out here waiting for me to feed them. Mom and Daddy passed away, and I've got a I have to see about all her cats. And uh one thing after another.
SPEAKER_02Hey, I need you to hey, listen, we're gonna wrap her up here. Listen, I need don't hang up because we're gonna get you to do a throw for our show. We need you to say something after we do this. You ready? I'm gonna wrap it up. Here we go. Everybody fly. No, don't don't hang up. I'm not hanging. I'm not missing.
SPEAKER_10Remember, when your roots run deep and strong, there's no reason to fear the wind. Didn't still tell time to America roots.
SPEAKER_09Take it to a holler. Take it to a field.