A Hot Piece Of Grass

Everyone’s favourite Appalachian hell raisers, Hayseed Dixie, present their new album “A Hot Piece Of Grass”. Th e album features interpretations of songs by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Green Day, Black Sabbath, Franz Ferdinand, OutKast and Van Halen amongst others, plus seven Hayseed Dixie original and a blistering plough through of ‘Dueling Banjos’, which was co-written by Don Reno Snr (Don Wayne and Dale’s father) in 1955. Hayseed Dixie’s story began a few years ago ago in the Appalachian hamlet of Deer Lick Holler when locals discovered a wrecked vehicle with a parcel of vinyl albums by a band called AC / DC. Soon after listening to the albums on a Victrola at 78 RPM, Hayseed Dixie was born. After releasing their fi rst album, Hayseed Dixie: A Hillbilly Tribute to AC / DC, the band set out on the highway to hell and toured the world. After going through several wives each and heroic quantities of fuel and beverage, the boys of Hayseed Dixie: Barley Scotch, Talcum Younger, Enus Younger, and Mutt Twang, thought they knew as much about sex, drugsand rock & roll as anybody dead or alive. Other than Hank Williams and Bon Scott. Hayseed Dixie toured Australia in May 2003. While they were here, they owned the place, appearing on more radio and TV shows (including Rove), and in more press, than you could poke a stick at. Th e tour drove sales of the AC/DC tribute album up to around the 15,000 mark - phenomenal for this kind of release. Th eir second album, ‘Let Th ere Be Rockgrass’, was released late 2004. Including live reprises of their best few AC/DC covers, plus killer versions of classics from QUEEN, THE DARKNESS, KISS, AEROSMITH, BAD COMPANY, MOTORHEAD and more, it went absolutely beserk in the UK, where the Hayseed boys are now national heros and sex symbols. The album also kept the fl ame burning in anticipation of a return visit to Australia, which is hotly tipped to belatedly be happening in October of this year, following the release of ‘A Hot Piece Of Grass’.