Hayseed Dixie
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 humour 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 hillbilly music of their
forefathers. But as fate would have it, they just so happened to stumble
across AC/DC's back catalogue 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 band members 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
the summer of 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.
www.hayseed-dixie.com
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