Song:Walk This Way
Album:A Hillbilly Tribute To Mountain Love
Hayseed Dixie is a bluegrass parody tribute band to heavy metal. They even invented a fictional history but they are in fact accomplished bluegrass veterans and have even created an alter ego band to open concerts for themselves. The singer guitarist behind this is John Wheeler. He learned to play guitar as a child and as a teen liked to cover rock songs, especially AC/DC. He started jamming with brothers Dale Reno and Don Wayne Reno and eventually bass player Jake Byers. They called themselves The Kerosene Brothers. When the concept of bluegrass covers of AC/DC songs seemed to have legs, they decided to create Hayseed Dixie and even created the story of finding AC/DC recordings in a burned out car in the Appalachians. Wheeler started calling himself Barley Scotch and Dale Reno called himself Enos Younger. Hayseed Dixie's debut was a tribute to AC/DC and in fact they opened for AC/DC on a show in Australia. This 2002 CD on Dualtone is their best seller to date and covers other hard rock songs like Aerosmith's Walk This Way, Ted Nugent's Cat Scratch Fever and Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll. It's pretty funny stuff. They have also recorded as The Kerosene Brothers and they are usually the opening act for Hayseed Dixie. Hayseed Dixie's latest CD No Covers was released Feb. 2008 on the British Cooking Vinyl label and consists mostly of Wheeler originals. So it appears they might be trying to break away from the cover band label. Check out this video of Walk This Way by Hayseed Dixie.
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