“Blue Kentucky Wind” was recorded by Les Taylor, the Kentucky singer known earlier as a lead voice of the country-rock band Exile. He used it as the title song of a 1991 solo album.
The song carries the homesick pull of Kentucky. The blue Kentucky wind of the title becomes a figure for memory and longing — for a home, and perhaps a love, that the singer has left behind and cannot stop thinking of.
The song crossed from country into bluegrass.
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