★★★★★
The Kentucky Headhunters kick off their 12th album, Dixie Lullabies, with something of a mission statement: A dual lead vocal between Richard Young and Doug Phelps cuts through a blustery Southern-rock riff ("It's time to get our rocks off, mama/And swing from the chandelier/Let's all get our mojo workin'/Get our ass in gear") before the song explodes into an even heavier, harder-rocking bar anthem...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-10-20
★★★★★
After a meandering career and personnel problems that'dbury most bands, the The Kentucky HeadHunters resurface with a tamer sound on Songs From the Grass String Ranch, but with their gutbucket country, psychedelia, driving blues, andwacko humor intact. Their best days are past; still, you gottalove a group that's equally passionate about love, guns, andtaters. B-
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
Y'all can rest easy now. Your clandestine copies of the Kentucky Headhunters in concert can now be supplanted by the professional recording, Authorized Bootleg - Live / Agora Ballroom - Cleveland, Ohio 5/13/1990. In honor of the 20th anniversary of their recorded debut, the Kentucky Headhunters release their first live album, captured at the peak of their commercial fame...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The Kentucky Headhunters are a rough-looking bunch, but man, can they play! This disc contains a wide range of covers of classic country and blues tunes, the sort of stuff Hank Williams Sr. and Roy Acuff penned. It's more electric, and the arrangements are more involved than a pedal steel guitar and some drums, but that's not a complaint by any stretch. This is the sort of country my folks listened to, and the whole disc has a nostalgic feel...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
★★★★★
When vocalist Ricky Lee Phelps and his bass-playing brother, Doug,
left the Kentucky HeadHunters to form another band last year, the
HeadHunters also lost the outrageousness, wit, and brilliance that
distinguished their earlier albums. Where Phelps brought a believable
wild-man danger to his work, new lead singer Mark S. Orr can't decide
if he's a Pentecostal preacher or the illegitimate son of Robert
Plant and Billy Gibbons...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
The Kentucky HeadHunters aren't a remarkable country mutation, just a top-notch Southern rock band with a sense of humor. "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" is the kind of clever novelty that won't work twice; "Big Mexican Dinner" is a novelty that doesn't even work the first time...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
As their album title suggests, The Headhunters aren't entirely comfortable with the country tag, which is appropriate when you hear their guitar-heavy, rambunctious music. The vocals have that twang, but these good old boys are often closer to Lynyrd Skynyrd than they are to Merle Haggard, and all the better for it.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27