Country Music is about to get a New Blast from the Past and it's called "Hot Country Knights" A 90s influenced group fronted by Douglas "Doug" Douglason, which happens to strongly resemble and sound like Dierks Bentley. It's uncanny really.
Douglason sat down with Billboard for his first-ever interview to explain the evolution of the band, their new single "Pick Her Up" that features the band’s spirit animal Travis Tritt and working with producer "Jerks Jentley" (Dierks Bentley).
HCK started as a 90s cover band, led by Douglason...again, he really looks like Dierks... who performed all over Tennessee before getting an opening slot on Dierks' 2019 tour. "A lot of people consider us to be the fourth or fifth best cover band to ever come out of Murfreesboro, Tennessee," Douglas said "and we took a lot of pride in it. We sung a lot of other people's hits. We made them greatest hits ’cause we sing them: Us singing them that makes them greatest hits.”
“Look, the ’90s are hot right now,” Douglason says, “Bentley is pretty much riding our mullets to the finish line on this one. I don't read or write much. He wrote most of them (the songs) but stole most of my ideas.”
Saved by the Bell star Tiffani Thiessen stars in the "Pick Her Up" video. Dierks...um... I mean Douglas said “She’s an honorary Knight, she held her own. I think she might even have made the video better by being in it, which is saying a lot because we were in it." He continues, "Country music's about to get saved by the bell to be honest. We were lucky we showed up in just the nick of time to rescue it."