In 1990, the Kentucky Headhunters of Edmonton, Kentucky, scored their second country hit with "Dumas Walker," from their No. 2 country album Pickin' on Nashville, and the song drew on memories of Dumas Walker, who owned Walker's Package Store on Tennessee Highway 52 in Moss, Tennessee, just south of the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. The band had lived 30 miles north of his store and had known him since childhood trips to Moss to buy fireworks and watch him play marbles. In the music video, which aired on CMT, Walker made a cameo appearance at age 74 and was called "the marble king." He played a regional marbles game known as Rolley Hole, distinct from the children's game and played on a 20 by 40 foot marble-yard with elements of croquet, pool, and golf; some players, including Walker, used flint marbles. The Tennessean identified him in 1969 as one of the game's best players, and he and his partner Welby Lee said they had played about 2,500 games a year for 10 years without ever losing. Rolley Hole later appeared at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., and its annual championship was held at Standing Stone State Park south of Celina, Tennessee. After the song became successful, visitors came to photograph Walker, and he signed bottles of Ski, the Chattanooga-bottled citrus soda named in the lyrics. The Kentucky Headhunters invited him to travel with them, but he declined because of obligations at home. Soon after the video was filmed, Walker injured his arm while driving to a marbles tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, and never played again. He died in Nashville on April 22, 1991, at age 75 and was buried in Moss. That same period also brought major honors to the Kentucky Headhunters, including a 1990 Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Pickin' on Nashville, Academy of Country Music awards for Best New Vocal Group and Album of the Year, and the Country Music Association's Vocal Group of the Year award. In 1991, Walker's store was sold at auction, though the family kept the name Dumas Walker.