The Bone Collector

Rather than operating as a conventional band, Bone Collector arose chiefly as an offshoot of a hunting series on television. Outdoorsman Michael Waddell, who co-hosts the popular Outdoors Channel program Bone Collector, had started staging fan club events known as Brotherhood Jams once each day’s hunting concluded, and those gatherings prompted the notion of compiling an album centered on hunting songs. Waddell brought in Rhett Akins and Dallas Davidson, both songwriters and singers, to compose and lay down the tracks, yielding the 2010 Reprise Records release Michael Waddell's Bone Collector: The Brotherhood Album featuring Rhett Akins & Dallas Davidson, which Akins, Davidson, and Brian Kolb produced. Although Waddell served chiefly as an inspirational force rather than a performing musician, the project acquired the character of a Nashville supergroup once Akins and Davidson took the lead and session players Troy Lancaster, Mike Payne, and Pat McGrath on guitars, Tim Lauer on piano, Brian Pruitt on drums, Joey Canaday on bass, and Wes Hightower supplying backing vocals joined the sessions.