Trivia / The Kentucky Headhunters

• Chart Displacement: The band had exactly one Top 10 hit on the country charts. It wasn't their Signature Song "Dumas Walker", but rather a cover of Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me". Also, Brother Phelps' debut release "Let Go" outpeaked all of the Headhunters' singles, but was forgotten in the long run due to the duo's short life.
• Creative Differences: What drove away both Ricky Lee Phelps and Mark S. Orr.
• He Also Did: Richard Young also co-wrote Tracy Byrd's 1998 hit "I'm from the Country". He has also produced and co-written for Flynnville Train and Black Stone Cherry (in which his son, John Fred Young, plays drums).
• Old Shame: Even the band itself seems to have distanced from Rave On!! and Mark S. Orr's involvement in the band. However, it seems that they got over this, as the second Johnnie Johnson collab album Meet Me in Bluesland features a re-recording of "Stumblin'" (originally found on their previous album with Johnson, recorded when Orr was in the group), and Orr wrote "Beaver Creek Mansion", the first track from On Safari.
• One-Hit Wonder: They are known almost entirely to mainstream audiences for "Dumas Walker".
• The Pete Best: An interesting variant in that the band's most famous songs came when Ricky Lee Phelps was the lead singer, but his brother Doug has held the role far longer.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Meet Me in Bluesland was a spontaneous recording done during the sessions for Soul in 2003, but remained unreleased for eight years because of this.
• What Could Have Been: They were almost signed to John Bonham's Swan Song Records back in the Itchy Brother days, but this fell through when Bonham died.

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