Kentucky Thunder (album)

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]

Kentucky Thunder
Studio album by Ricky Skaggs
Released	May 26, 1989 (1989-05-26)
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
Comin' Home to Stay (1988) Kentucky Thunder (1989) My Father's Son (1991)
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

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

Personnel

• 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)

Production

• Steve Buckingham – producer
• Ricky Skaggs – producer
• John Abbott – engineer
• Joe Bogan – engineer
• Rodney Good – engineer
• Patrick Hutchinson – engineer
• John Hurley – engineer
• Doug Johnson – engineer, mixing (2)
• Brad Jones – engineer
• Kyle Lehning – engineer
• George Massenburg – engineer, mixing (1, 3–10)
• Pat McMakin – engineer
• Gary Paczosa – electric
• Mike Poole – engineer
• Dennis Ritchie – engineer
• Ed Seay – engineer
• Denny Purcell – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Bill Johnson – art direction
• Rollow Welch – art assistance
• Michael Rutherford – photography
• Earl Cox – hair stylist
• Elizabeth Linamen – make-up
• Ricky Skaggs Enterprises – management

Charts

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

Year-end charts Chart (1989) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[3] 64