"Cold Dead Hands," Dustin Collins' 2017 breakthrough hit, was a defiant pro-Second Amendment anthem, suggesting the Kentucky-based country singer was a bit of a rebel. In fact, Collins grew up in a musical household, one where his father played with his uncle in an actively recording group, and his straight-ahead country music certainly shows a debt to tradition while also incorporating sly modern elements, such as a fondness for the smooth, murmuring electronic rhythms of Jason Aldean and the rousing bro-country of Luke Bryan.
Born in northern Georgia but raised in Bardstown...