The Kentucky Headhunters discography

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The Kentucky Headhunters are an American country rock & southern rock band founded in 1968 as Itchy Brother. The band's discography comprises nine studio albums, six compilation albums, two video compilations and 27 singles. Of their albums, their 1989 debut Pickin' on Nashville is certified double platinum in the United States and Canada, while 1991's Electric Barnyard has a gold certification in both countries. Of the band's singles, four have reached Top 40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Their highest chart peak is the number 8 "Oh Lonesome Me", which was originally a Number One single for Don Gibson.

Studio albums

=1980s and 1990s=

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! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions

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(sales threshold)

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! width="45"| US Country
{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1679/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|title=Billboard charted albums for The Kentucky Headhunters|work=Allmusic|accessdate=December 20, 2011}}

! width="45"| US

! width="45"| CAN
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scope="row"| Pickin' on Nashville

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| 2

| 41

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  • CAN: 2× Platinum{{Certification Cite Ref|region=Canada|type=album|title=Pickin' On Nashville|artist=Kentucky Headhunters}}
  • US: 2× Platinum{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|type=album|title=Pickin%27 On Nashville|artist=Kentucky Headhunters}}
scope="row"| Electric Barnyard

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  • Release date: April 2, 1991
  • Label: Mercury Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette

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| 29

| 79

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  • CAN: Gold{{Certification Cite Ref|region=Canada|type=album|title=Electric Barnyard|artist=Kentucky Headhunters}}
  • US: Gold{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|type=album|title=Electric Barnyard|artist=Kentucky Headhunters}}
scope="row"| Rave On!

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  • Release date: 1993
  • Label: Mercury Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette

| 22

| 102

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scope="row"| Stompin' Grounds

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  • Release date: April 29, 1997
  • Label: BNA Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette

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colspan="6" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

=2000s – 2020s=

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! colspan="1"| Peak positions

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! width="65"| US Country

scope="row"| Songs from the Grass String Ranch

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scope="row"| Soul

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  • Release date: May 6, 2003
  • Label: Audium Entertainment
  • Formats: CD

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scope="row"| Big Boss Man

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  • Release date: June 21, 2005
  • Label: CBuJ Entertainment
  • Formats: CD

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scope="row"| Dixie Lullabies

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  • Release date: October 18, 2011
  • Label: Red Dirt
  • Formats: CD

| 75

scope="row"| On Safari

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  • Release date: November 4, 2016
  • Label: Plowboy
  • Formats: CD, music download

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scope="row"| That's a Fact Jack!

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  • Release date: October 2, 2021
  • Label: Practice House
  • Formats: CD, music download

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colspan="3" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

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scope="row"| The Best of The Kentucky Headhunters:
Still Pickin'

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  • Release date: September 20, 1994
  • Label: Mercury Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
scope="row"| Flying Under the Radar

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  • Release date: June 13, 2006
  • Label: CBuJ Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
scope="row"| Authorized Bootleg: Live – Agara Ballroom – Cleveland, Ohio

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scope="row"| The Kentucky Headhunters

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  • Release date: December 8, 2011
  • Label: Hickory Records
  • Formats: music download
scope="row"| Snapshot: Kentucky Headhunters

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  • Release date: June 23, 2014
  • Label: Hickory Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
scope="row"| Dixie Fried : The Best of The Mercury Years

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  • Release date: October 12, 2018
  • Label: Wrasse Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
scope="row"| Live at the Ramblin' Man Fair

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  • Release date: January 11, 2019
  • Label: Alligator Records
  • Formats: CD, music download

Collaborative albums

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scope="row"| That'll Work
{{small|(with Johnnie Johnson)}}

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  • Release date: August 17, 1993
  • Label: Elektra/Nonesuch
  • Formats: CD, cassette
scope="row"| Meet Me in Bluesland
{{small|(with Johnnie Johnson)}}

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Singles

=1970s – 1990s=

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! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peak chart
positions

! rowspan="2"| Album

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! width="45"| US Country
{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=223|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}

! width="45"| CAN Country
{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=slnao27kag75cngkcvr15lriq2&q1=the+kentucky+headhunters&x=0&y=0|title=RPM search results for The Kentucky Headhunters|work=RPM|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

1973

! scope="row"| "Shotgun Effie" (as Itchy Brother)

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1989

! scope="row"| "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine"

| 25

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| align="left" rowspan="4"| Pickin' on Nashville

rowspan="3"| 1990

! scope="row"| "Dumas Walker"

| 15

| 54

scope="row"| "Oh Lonesome Me"

| 8

| 19

scope="row"| "Rock 'n' Roll Angel"

| 23

| 30

rowspan="4"| 1991

! scope="row"| "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"

| 49

| 82

| align="left" rowspan="4"| Electric Barnyard

scope="row"| "With Body and Soul"

| 56

| 30

scope="row"| "It's Chitlin' Time"

| 63

| 88

scope="row"| "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line"

| 60

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1992

! scope="row"| "Let's Work Together"

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| align="left"| Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man {{small|(soundtrack)}}

rowspan="3"| 1993

! scope="row"| "Honky Tonk Walkin'"

| 54

| 77

| align="left" rowspan="3"| Rave On!!

scope="row"| "Blue Moon of Kentucky"

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scope="row"| "Dixie Fried"

| 71

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rowspan="3"| 1994

! scope="row"| "Sunday Blues" {{small|(with Johnnie Johnson)}}

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| —

| align="left" rowspan="2"| That'll Work

scope="row"| "Stumblin" (with Johnnie Johnson)

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scope="row"| "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

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| align="left"| Shared Vision: The Songs of the Beatles

1997

! scope="row"| "Singin' the Blues"

| 70

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| align="left"| Stompin' Grounds

colspan="5" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

=2000s – 2020s=

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rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;"| Single

! colspan="1"| Peak positions

! rowspan="2"| Album

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! width="65"| US Country

2000

! scope="row"| "Too Much to Lose"

| 66

| align="left" rowspan="3"| Songs from the Grass String Ranch

2001

! scope="row"| "Louisianna CoCo"{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/304611664/ | title=Kentucky Headhunters search for niche | work=The Times | date=August 30, 2002 | accessdate=April 12, 2022 | author=Tom Lounges | location=Munster, Indiana | pages=D7}}

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2002

! scope="row"| "Love That Woman"

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2003

! scope="row"| "Lonely Nights"

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| align="left"| Soul

2005

! scope="row"| "Big Boss Man"

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| align="left" rowspan="3"| Big Boss Man

rowspan="2"| 2006

! scope="row"| "Chug-a-Lug"

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scope="row"| "Take These Chains from My Heart"

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2011

! scope="row"| "Great Acoustics"{{cite news|title=Kentucky HeadHunters release new single|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=5656|accessdate=October 6, 2012|newspaper=Country Standard Time|date=August 18, 2011}}

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| align="left"| Dixie Lullabies

2016

! scope="row"| "Crazy Jim"

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| align="left" rowspan="3"| On Safari

2017

! scope="row"| "God Loves a Rolling Stone"{{cite web|url=http://daily.plaympe.com/kentucky-headhunters-god-loves-a-rolling-stone/|title=Kentucky Headhunters - God Loves A Rolling Stone|work=Play MPE|date=April 14, 2017}}

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2018

! scope="row"| "Beaver Creek Mansion"

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rowspan=2|2021

! scope="row"| "How Could I"{{Cite web|url=https://www.rockatnight.com/2021/09/the-kentucky-headhunters-announce-a-new-lp-and-release-how-could-i/|title = The Kentucky Headhunters Announce a New LP and Release 'How Could I'|date = 29 September 2021}}

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| align="left" rowspan=2| That's a Fact Jack!

scope="row"| "That's a Fact Jack"{{cite web | url=https://blazingminds.co.uk/the-kentucky-headhunters-thats-a-fact-jack/ | title=The Kentucky Headhunters New Album | date=22 October 2021 }}

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colspan="4" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart

Videography

=Music videos=

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! Year

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! Director

1989

! scope="row"| "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine"

| rowspan="4"| John Lloyd Miller

rowspan="2"| 1990

! scope="row"| "Dumas Walker"

scope="row"| "Oh Lonesome Me"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/302606/oh-lonesome-me.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607000729/http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/302606/oh-lonesome-me.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2011|title=Music video for "Oh Lonesome Me"|work=CMT|accessdate=2009-05-26}}
rowspan="3"| 1991

! scope="row"| "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/303437/the-ballad-of-davy-crockett.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607000754/http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/303437/the-ballad-of-davy-crockett.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2011|title=Music video for "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"|work=CMT|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

scope="row"| "It's Chitlin' Time"{{cite news|title=New Videoclips|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCgEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22kentucky+headhunters%22+%22chitlin+time%22+director&pg=RA1-PA34|accessdate=October 6, 2012|newspaper=Billboard|date=October 12, 1991}}

| Sherman Halsey

scope="row"| "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/304356/only-daddy-thatll-walk-the-line.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607000921/http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/304356/only-daddy-thatll-walk-the-line.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2011|title=Music video for "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line"|work=CMT|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

| Retta Harvey

1992

! scope="row"| "Let's Work Together"

| Simon Wincer

rowspan="2"| 1993

! scope="row"| "Honky Tonk Walkin'"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/305314/honky-tonk-walkin.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607000933/http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/305314/honky-tonk-walkin.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2011|title=Music video for "Honky Tonk Walkin'"|work=CMT|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

| rowspan="3"| John Lloyd Miller

scope="row"| "Dixie Fried"
1997

! scope="row"| "Singin' the Blues"{{cite news|title=Production Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQ8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22kentucky+headhunters%22+%22singin+the+blues%22+%22John+lloyd+miller%22&pg=RA1-PA76|accessdate=October 6, 2012|newspaper=Billboard|date=May 3, 1997}}

2000

! scope="row"| "Too Much to Lose"

| Brent Hedgecock

2001

! scope="row"| "Louisianna CoCo"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/309562/louisianna-coco.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607000950/http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/309562/louisianna-coco.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2011|title=Music video for "Louisianna CoCo"|work=CMT|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

| Jerad Sloan

2005

! scope="row"| "Big Boss Man"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/312838/big-boss-man.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607001033/http://www.cmt.com/videos/kentucky-headhunters/312838/big-boss-man.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2011|title=Music video for "Big Boss Man"|work=CMT|accessdate=2009-05-26}}

| Stephen Shepherd

2012

! scope="row"| "Great Acoustics"{{cite news|last1=Huckeba|first1=Stacie|title=The Kentucky Headhunters ~ "Great Acoustics"|url=https://vimeo.com/36565262|accessdate=August 8, 2016|work=Vimeo|date=February 10, 2012}}

| Stacie Huckeba

2015

! scope="row"| "Stumblin'"

| Norry Niven

=Video compilations=

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! style="width:18em;"| Album details

! Certifications
(sales threshold)

scope="row"| Pickin' on Nashville: Videos

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  • Release date: July 1, 1991
  • Label: Mercury Records
  • Formats: VHS

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  • US: Gold
scope="row"| Best Pickin's

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  • Release date: October 18, 1994
  • Label: Mercury Records
  • Formats: VHS

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