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Known for their raucous, over-the-top fusion of punk rock, hard rock, country music, and hillbilly iconography, Nine Pound Hammer were one of the formative bands on the "cowpunk" scene that paved the way for alt-country in the late '80s and early '90s. The Nine Pound Hammer story began in early , when a handful of friends in Owensboro, Kentucky put together a cover band called the Yuppie Mop Dogs. Although the Dogs weren't impressed with their own performances, they decided to continue using a new name, the Raw Recruits.

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Payne dropped out of the group, and Bart Altman stepped in on bass. The Raw Recruits began writing original material and playing out periodically in Owensboro and Evansville, and after winning over a skeptical crowd at a party for the Kentucky Wesleyan football team, they began taking their music just a bit more seriously. The Raw Recruits pulled up stakes and relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, where they changed their handle to the Black Sheep and began playing regularly at Great Scott's Depot, where one show actually caused the PA system to catch fire.

When Toby Myrick left the Black Sheep, his bandmates recruited Darren Howard to play drums for the band, and they adopted a new name, Nine Pound Hammer, inspired by the classic country song by Merle Travis. Not long after the band had become Nine Pound Hammer, they crossed paths with Len Puch, a Detroiter who ran an independent label called Wanghead Records , who released the first recordings by the Gories.

Puch was impressed with Nine Pound Hammer, and was interested in recruiting the group for his label. By the time Nine Pound Hammer made their way to Michigan to record their debut album, Bart Altman and Darren Howard had left the group, and they were working with a new rhythm section of bassist Brian Moore and drummer Rob Hulsman. The Mud, the Blood, and the Beers, Nine Pound Hammer's first LP, was released by Wanghead in , and the band toured hard in support, with Brian Moore dropping out after a drunken mishap on the road, and Matt Bartholomy signing on as their new bassist.

By , Wanghead Records had run out of steam, and the band found a new home at the fearless garage punk label Crypt Records.