Kentucky Thunder (album)

Kentucky Thunder
Studio album by Ricky Skaggs
Released	May 26, 1989 (1989-05-26)
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

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.

Track listing

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

• Eddie Bayers - drums
• Barry Beckett - piano
• Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
• Terry Crisp - steel guitar
• Jerry Douglas - dobro
• Stuart Duncan - fiddle, acoustic guitar
• Béla Fleck - banjo
• Steve Gibson - electric guitar
• Lloyd Green - steel guitar
• Bobby Hicks - fiddle
• David Hungate - bass guitar
• Roy Huskey Jr. - upright bass
• Shane Keister - piano
• Albert Lee - electric guitar
• Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar
• Joey Miskulin - accordion
• Larry Paxton - bass guitar
• Ricky Skaggs - acoustic guitar, mandolin, lead vocals, background vocals
• Larry Strickland - background vocals
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Curtis Young - background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	18
Canadian RPM Country Albums	27