| Pickin' on Nashville | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the Kentucky Headhunters |
| Cover: | khhpickin.jpg |
| Released: | October 17, 1989 |
| Studio: | Sound Shop (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| Genre: | Country rock, Southern rock |
| Length: | 34:21 |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Producer: | The Kentucky Headhunters |
| Next Title: | Electric Barnyard |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Pickin' on Nashville is the debut studio album by American country rock/southern rock band the Kentucky Headhunters. It features the singles "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine", "Oh Lonesome Me", "Dumas Walker", and "Rock 'n' Roll Angel", all of which charted in the Top 40 on the Hot Country Songs charts. "Oh Lonesome Me" was also the highest charting, at No. 8. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the band in 1991.
"Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine" is a cover of a Bill Monroe song, "Skip a Rope" a cover of a Henson Cargill song, and "Oh Lonesome Me" a cover of a Don Gibson song. After brothers Ricky Lee and Doug Phelps left the band in 1992 to form the duo Brother Phelps, they recorded "Ragtop" on their second album (1994's Any Way the Wind Blows). Doug rejoined the band in 1997.
The Tulsa World noted that the band "have more in common with the Georgia Satellites than just a similar name—their bar-band, three- and four-chord boogie has the same loose, endearingly sappy quality."[1]
| Chart (1989–1990) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard 200[2] | 41 | |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[3] | 2 |
| Chart (1990) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard 200[4] | 58 | |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[5] | 3 | |
| Chart (1992) | Position | |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] | 72 |