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The Sky Kings

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Also known as
  
Four Wheel Drive

Genres
  
Active until
  
1997

Genre
  
Country music

Origin
  
United States

Years active
  
1991–1997

Active from
  
1991

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Labels
  
RCA NashvilleWarner Bros.

Past members
  
John CowanBill LloydPatrick SimmonsRusty Young

Albums
  
From Out of the Blue, 1992

Similar
  
Rusty Young, Poco, Foster & Lloyd, Bill Lloyd, Courtney Johnson

The Sky Kings was an American country music supergroup formed in 1991 as Four Wheel Drive. The band consisted of John Cowan, Bill Lloyd, Patrick Simmons and Rusty Young. They were signed to a recording deal with RCA Nashville and completed an album which for the label was never released.

Warner Bros. Records signed the group in 1993. Threatened with lawsuits from bands who had copyrighted the name Four Wheel Drive, they secured the rights to the name The Sky Kings. After opening for The Doobie Brothers on their 1993 tour, Simmons left The Sky Kings to rejoin The Doobie Brothers. Now a trio, The Sky Kings released three singles on Warner Bros.: "Picture Perfect," "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" and "That Just About Says It All." "Picture Perfect" was the only single to chart, peaking at No. 52 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. An eponymous album was scheduled to be released in 1997, but eventually shelved. Rhino Handmade released From Out of the Blue, an album which collected the entire unreleased 1997 Warner Bros. album, non-album Warner Bros. singles, and recordings and demos made for a second unreleased Warner Bros. album, in 2000.

Songs

Fallin' for the Last Time1992 · 2014
That Just About Says It AllFrom Out of the Blue · 2000
One Tear at a Time1992 · 2014

References

The Sky Kings Wikipedia