The Whipps | Kentucky Life | KET
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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2013 · Music
There's hip hop, country, and rock — but Kentucky's band The Whipps has unearthed a new genre: hick hop. This Greenup County band (hailing from what's known as the gateway to the Country Music Highway) finds inspiration in the musical heritage of their bluegrass roots. Don Hanshaw, a singer/songwriter and drummer, got together with Larry Collinsworth, a guitarist and composer, to blend traditional instruments like banjo, dobro, and mandolin with newer sounds and hybrid elements. The band has been described as a country crossbreed. Greg Fletcher plays drums and Corky Holbrook is on bass. Their first album was titled "Ghettobillies." As they say in the title song, "Livin just livin, we're back in the woods/Don't mean we don't like a hip hop tune." They hit the Country Indie chart in summer 2013 with "Honestly." They are at work on a second album, "Boomin."
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