| Kentucky Breakdown | ||||
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| Released | May 4, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Cowpunk | |||
| Label | Acetate Records [1] | |||
| Producer | David Barrick | |||
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| Punknews.org |    [2] |
Kentucky Breakdown is an album by Owensboro, Kentucky-based cowpunk band Nine Pound Hammer, released in 2004. [3] It marks the first new material from the band since the album Hayseed Timebomb was released ten years earlier.
Punknews.org wrote that "each song is only a few chords with doubled guitar powerchords with occasional Skynard-esque riffs and solos fronted by Blaine Cartwright of Nashville Pussy fame." [2] Ox-Fanzine wrote that "the album is great, better than any goddamn Nashville Pussy LP, and ties in seamlessly with a classic like Hayseed Timebomb." [4]
The following people worked on this album
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