Hayseed Dixie

Artist: Hayseed Dixie

Group Members:

Barley Scotch, Don Wayne Reno, John Wheeler, Dale Reno

Similar Artists:

The Bosshoss, Cornbread Red

Genres: Country
Representative Albums: "No Covers," "A Hot Piece of Grass," "A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love"

Biography

Hayseed Dixie is a novelty band that issued a tribute album to heavy metal legends AC/DC in 2001 (completely reworking the Australian band's classics as country/hillbilly rave-ups), titled A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. Their sense of humor is also evident in their bio, which claims that the band hails from Deer Lick Holler, "deep in the heart of the Appalachia," where its members grew up playing the traditional hillybilly music of their forefathers. But as fate would have it, they just so happened to stumble across AC/DC's back catalog of recordings when a stranger driving through the boy's hometown crashed his car and perished, but his records were saved by Hayseed Dixie! The bandmembers of AC/DC have taken quite a liking to Hayseed Dixie, as AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams invited the band to play a set at the band's tour wrap-up party at his East Coast mountain retreat in summer 2001. Hayseed Dixie isn't the kind of group to let a smart-ass idea go to waste, and followed the AC/DC album with 2002's A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love, which gave the same bluegrass treatment to assorted hard rock songs. Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss appeared a year later in 2003. A Hot Piece of Grass was released on Cooking Vinyl Records in 2005 and two years later, following the same theme, Weapons of Grass Destruction, which featured covers of songs by the Beatles, Judas Priest, and the Scissor Sisters, among others, came out. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide

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Monster Mash Buy this CD	Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC [Bonus Track] Buy this CD	Weapons of Grass Destruction Buy this CD	Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love Buy this CD	No Sleep Till Liverpool [DVD] Buy this CD
Hot Piece of Grass [Japan] Buy this CD	No Covers Buy this CD	Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss Buy this CD	Hot Piece of Grass Buy this CD	Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC Buy this CD

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Hayseed Dixie
Hayseed Dixie performing in Stavanger, Norway, 2008
Background information
Also known as	Kerosene Brothers
Origin	United States
Genre(s)	Bluegrass, parody music
Years active	2001–present
Label(s)	Dualtone, Cooking Vinyl
Website	www.hayseed-dixie.com
Members
Barley Scotch, Don Wayne Reno, Dale Reno, Jake Byers
Former members
Kurt Carrick, Mike Daly, Rusty Horn, Jason D Smith, Jeff Williams, Chad Mize

Hayseed Dixie is an American band which began in the Fall of 2000 with the release of their first album, A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. The band performs a mixture of cover versions of hard rock songs and original compositions in a style that is a cross between bluegrass and rock music. The band's name is a play on the name AC/DC and was originally AC/Dixie, but they were forced to change it. Claiming to hail from the fictional Deer Lick Holler, Appalachia, the band has played nearly 1,000 live dates in 21 different countries since 2001.

Kerosene Brothers is the band's alter-ego project; they released the album Choose Your Own Title under that name in 2003.

In 2005 they played at Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festival. In September 2005 they held their own festival Loopallu in Ullapool, Scotland, which has become an annual event. In June 2007 they appeared on the opening day of the Download Festival^[1] and played at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and the Wickerman Festival in Scotland in July 2007.

BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine is a fan of their work and infrequently plays a tune by the band. The group recorded the "When you wanna hear great music..." jingle for his show.

1 Current band members
2 Former band members
3 Discography
- 3.1 Videography
4 References
5 External links

Current band members

John Wheeler (credited as Barley Scotch) – vocals, guitar, fiddle, founding member
"Reverend" Don Wayne Reno – banjo, founding member
"Deacon" Dale Reno – mandolin, guitar, founding member
Jake "Bakesnake" Byers – bass guitar

Former band members

Rusty Horn (as Cooter Brown) – guitar, founding member
Kurt Carrick (as Kletus) – bass, founding member
Mike Daly (as Wilson Cook) – Dobro, founding member
Jason D Smith – bass
Jeff Williams – bass
Chad Mize – bass

Discography

Year	Album	Chart Positions			Label
Year	Album	US Bluegrass	US Country	US Heat	Label
2001	A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC	14	47		Dualtone
2002	A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love	8	39	38
2003	Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss	4	52
2004	Let There Be Rockgrass				Cooking Vinyl
2005	A Hot Piece of Grass	6
2007	Weapons of Grass Destruction
2008	No Covers

Videography

2006: No Sleep Till Liverpool (DVD) – A 2005 concert tour to support A Hot Piece of Grass. Includes a cover of AC/DC's "Hells Bells", several music videos and a segment about the origins of the band.

References

^ "Hayseed Dixie tour itinerary". 1 April, 2007. http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/itinerary.php. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.

"THE CHARTS: MUSIC". The (London) Independent. 2005-12-16. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20051216/ai_n15946115. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
Dave Simpson (2005-07-27). "Southern fried metal". Guardian Unlimited. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1536871,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
"Hayseed Dixie". The Age. 2005-10-07. http://www.theage.com.au/news/gig-previews--reviews/hayseed-dixie/2005/10/07/1128562986515.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
Troy Carpenter (2003-01-14). "Billboard Bits: Bob Dylan, Hayseed Dixie, Men At Work". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1795925. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.

External links

Hayseed Dixie official website.
Hayseed Dixie collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive.
"CD Pays Bluegrass Tribute to Rockers AC/DC". NPR. 2002-11-02. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=829699. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.

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