Artist: Hayseed Dixie: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Country Discography: Let There Be Rockgrass Year: 2004 Tracks: 15 A Hillbilly Tribute to AC-DC Year: 2001 Tracks: 10 Hayseed Dixie is a novelty band that issued a tribute album to heavy admixture legends AC/DC in 2001 (completely reworking the Australian band's classics as country/hillbilly rave-ups), coroneted A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. Their sense of sense of humor is also evident in their bio, which claims that the band hails from Deer Lick Holler, "inscrutable in the heart of the Appalachia," where its members grew up playing the traditional hillybilly euphony of their forefathers. But as destiny would suffer it, they just so happened to trip crosswise AC/DC's back up catalog of recordings when a stranger driving through the boy's hometown crashed his auto and perished, simply his records were saved by Hayseed Dixie! The bandmembers of AC/DC get interpreted quite a liking to Hayseed Dixie, as AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams invited the band to act a ready at the band's circuit roll up political party at his East Coast mount retreat in summertime 2001. Hayseed Dixie isn't the genial of group to let a smart-ass estimation go to waste, and followed the AC/DC record album with 2002's A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love, which gave the same bluegrass treatment to various hard rock songs. Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss appeared a yr after in 2003. A Hot Piece of Grass was released on Cooking Vinyl Records in 2005 and deuce geezerhood later, next the like topic, Weapons of Grass Destruction, which featured covers of songs by the Beatles, Judas Priest, and the Scissor Sisters, among others, came out. |