Country Boy

Tony Colton, Albert Lee and Ray Smith wrote it; Lee and Smith were of the British band Heads Hands and Feet, active 1969 to 1973, and Wikipedia lists only a 1972 Beat-Club video for the original. Skaggs produced his version, released in February 1985 as the second single with "Wheel Hoss" on the B-side. It reached number one on Hot Country Songs for one week, on the chart dated June 15, 1985, his ninth, and RPM Country Tracks in Canada, and was 43rd on the 1985 year-end chart; it is RIAA gold, certified on January 9, 1994. Martin Kahan directed the video in New York City, with Bill Monroe playing "Uncle Pen" and cameos by Mayor Ed Koch as a cab driver, Charlotte d'Amboise and David Keith. It was one of four nominees for the first CMA Music Video of the Year at the 19th CMA Awards in October 1985, losing to Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight", the night Skaggs won Entertainer of the Year.

Country Universe's Kevin John Coyne graded it A, saying every moment is pure bluegrass euphoria. He performed it on the finale of NBC's The Voice in December 2015 with finalist Emily Ann Roberts. A bluegrass re-recording is listed on Country Hits Bluegrass Style (2011), which we could not verify. We found no covers or samples and no setlist count; we do not know which version our upload is.