Stout twangy guitar tones, honky tonk pianos, & swirling pedal steel, lay the framework for his debut album "Better than Myself"

Nine Pound Hammer is an American hardcore band formed in 1985 by vocalist Scott Luallen and guitarist Blaine Cartwright in their hometown of Owensboro, KY and was one of the first rural hardcore punk bands to substantially incorporate rural blue collar motifs into the minimalistic hardcore sound.