Nine Pound Hammer is an American cowpunk band formed in 1985 by vocalist Scott Luallen and guitarist Blaine Cartwright (later of Nashville Pussy) in their hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky. Though not recorded until 1988, the band were one of the initial wave of acts to combine the roots sound of country music with punk rock, and became a foreruner to subsequent roots-punk artists.
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Famous quotes containing the words pound and/or hammer:
“Pound’s crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history’s sake we shouldn’t keep him there.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)