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Hayseed Dixie

 
Artist: Hayseed Dixie
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Group Members:

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

Similar Artists:

Cornbread Red, The Bosshoss
See Hayseed Dixie Lyrics
  • Genres: Country
  • Representative Albums: "No Covers", "Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss", "Best of Hayseed Dixie

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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Hayseed Dixie

Hayseed Dixie performing in Stavanger, Norway, 2008
Background information
Also known as Kerosene Brothers
Origin United States
Genres Bluegrass, parody music, country
Years active 2001–present
Labels 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[citation needed]. 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.

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Current band members

Former band members

  • Rusty Horn (as Cooter Brown) – acoustic guitar, founding member
  • Kurt Carrick (as Kletus) – acoustic 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
US Bluegrass US Country US Heat
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

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

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