Kentucky Thunder (album)

Kentucky Thunder
Kentucky Thunder
Studio album by Ricky Skaggs
Released	May 26, 1989
Recorded	1988
Studio	Treasure Island Studios, Digital Recorders, Eleven Eleven Studio and Nightingale Studios (Nashville, Tennessee); Morningstar Studios (Spring House, Pennsylvania).
Genre	Country
Length	29:59
Label	Epic
Producer	Steve Buckingham; Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs chronology
Singles from Kentucky Thunder
	"Lovin' Only Me"; Released: February 1989; "Let It Be You"; Released: July 1989; "Heartbreak Hurricane"; Released: December 9, 1989; "Hummingbird"; Released: April 21, 1990; "He Was On to Somethin' (So He Made You)"; Released: September 1, 1990;

Kentucky Thunder is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in 1989 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hummingbird"	Tim DuBois, Greg Jennings	3:08
2.	"Lovin' Only Me"	Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens	3:33
3.	"The Fields of Home"	Larry Cordle, Larry Shell	3:56
4.	"Heartbreak Hurricane"	Cordle, Jim Rushing	2:37
5.	"Let It Be You"	Harry Stinson, Kevin Welch	2:41
6.	"Lonesome for You"	Cordle, Shell	2:21
7.	"Kentucky Thunder"	Cordle, Rushing	2:55
8.	"When I Love"	Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz	3:02
9.	"He Was On to Somethin' (So He Made You)"	Sonny Curtis	2:37
10.	"Casting My Shadow in the Road"	Rushing, Randy Scruggs	3:34
11.	"Saviour, Save Me from Myself"	Cordle, Rushing	2:30

Ricky Skaggs – lead vocals, backing vocals (1–4, 6–10), mandolin (1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 10), fiddle (9), triangle (9)
Barry Beckett – acoustic piano (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
Shane Keister – acoustic piano (4, 9)
Joey Miskulin – accordion (9)
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 3, 6–10)
Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 4, 6)
Albert Lee – electric lead guitar (1, 2, 6)
Steve Gibson – electric guitar, mandolin (2)
Terry Crisp – steel guitar (3)
Lloyd Green – steel guitar (5, 8, 9, 10)
Béla Fleck – banjo (4, 7)
Jerry Douglas – dobro (5, 6, 7)
David Hungate – bass guitar (1–8, 10)
Roy Huskey Jr. – upright bass (1, 2, 4)
Larry Paxton – bass guitar (9)
Eddie Bayers – drums
Stuart Duncan – fiddle (1, 3–6, 10)
Bobby Hicks – fiddle (7)
Dennis Wilson – backing vocals (5)
Curtis Young – backing vocals (5)

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Canadian Country Albums (RPM)	27
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[2]	18

Chart (1989)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[3]	64

v t e Ricky Skaggs
Studio albums	Waitin' for the Sun to Shine Highways & Heartaches Don't Cheat in Our Hometown Country Boy Love's Gonna Get Ya! Comin' Home to Stay Kentucky Thunder My Father's Son
Collaborative albums	Skaggs & Rice Bluegrass Rules! Ancient Tones Brand New Strings Instrumentals Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby Salt of the Earth Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Live albums	Live in London
Notable singles	"You May See Me Walkin'" "Crying My Heart Out Over You" "I Don't Care" "Heartbroke" "I Wouldn't Change You If I Could" "Highway 40 Blues" "You've Got a Lover" "Don't Cheat in Our Hometown" "Honey (Open That Door)" "Uncle Pen" "Something in My Heart" "Country Boy" "You Make Me Feel Like a Man" "Cajun Moon" "I've Got a New Heartache" "Love's Gonna Get You Someday" "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" (with Sharon White) "Thanks Again" "Lovin' Only Me" "Let It Be You" "Heartbreak Hurricane" "Hummingbird" "He Was On to Somethin' (So He Made You)" "Life's Too Long (To Live Like This)" "Same Ol' Love" "Cat's in the Cradle"
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