Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Barley Scotch From Hawyseed Dixie

Every great piece of music starts with a moment of discovery. We hold onto the places and things that were taking place during the introduction. For Hayseed Dixie? It was the John Boy and Billy Show and now the band is traveling the world. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Barley Scotch Hayseed Dixie began in the summer of 2000 in the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler, deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee USA. In this area which was completely isolated from outside cultural and musical influence, the boys grew up playing the traditional music of their forefathers on banjo, fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar and acoustic bass. All of this changed abruptly one afternoon when a stranger crashed his car into a stately old oak tree on a particularly dangerous curve, which the locals refer to as the “Devil’s Elbow.” Sadly, the stranger expired, but his legacy lives on! As the boys searched through the wreckage looking for identification, they discovered several vinyl AC/DC albums. After playing these back on an old Edison 78rpm Victrola, everyone agreed that the songs were right fine country music . . . and that the Lost Highway of Brother Hank Williams and this Highway To Hell that AC/DC sung about were indeed the exact same damn road! And with that the boys took to leaning the music on those AC/DC albums - and the rest is now enshrined in musical history. Hayseed Dixie - Discography: Hayseed Dixie: A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC (2001) Hayseed Dixie: A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love (2002) Hayseed Dixie: Kiss My Grass - A Hillbilly Tribute To KISS (2003) Hayseed Dixie: Let there Be Rockgrass (2004) Hayseed Dixie: A Hot Piece of Grass (2005) Hayseed Dixie: You Wanna See Something REALLY Scary? EP (2006) Hayseed Dixie: Weapons of Grass Destruction (2007) Hayseed Dixie: No Covers (2008) Hayseed Dixie: Killer Grass CD/DVD (2010) Hayseed Dixie: Sjt. Munchs Drikkeklubb Band (2011) Hayseed Dixie: Grasswhooping Party Pack – Volume 1 (2013) Hayseed Dixie: Grasswhooping Party Pack – Volume 2 (2013) Hayseed Dixie: Nicotine & Alcohol (2012) Hayseed Dixie: Hair Down To My Grass (2015)

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