Artist Awards Doug Kershaw

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Blame it on the shutdown. When the Kentucky Headhunters watched their 2020 dates go up in smoke, they knew with or without live dates, they’re a band… and bands have to play. After a half-century of coming together at Mama Effie’s Practice House, first as Itchy Brother, then the Kentucky Headhunters, as well as watching next-generation hard rockers Black Stone Cherry come into their own sound, the idea of not making music wasn’t something could stomach. “We’re a band,” says guitarist/vocalist Richard Young. “We play. When all our shows got canceled, we decided we were gonna go up to the Practice House and play. Then we figured we might as well go into the studio, but instead of having an agenda or some idea of ‘what’ was this supposed to be, we all looked at each other and went, ‘Well, what do you do?’