It’s something that happens on occasion in France, says John Wheeler, a bluegrass musician from Nashville living in Europe. After a show, someone in the audience might ask: “Is it supposed to be good, ...

Like your rock 'n' roll with a whole lotta banjo and a good helping of humour? You could do a darned sight worse than getting your skinny butt down to see the good ol' boys of Hayseed Dixie. I first ...

Hayseed Dixie. I am ashamed to admit that I didn't get the AC/DC pun as soon as I should have; as obvious as it is in retrospect. I'm glad I didn't, I may have underestimated this band as a mere ...

"We're your worst nightmare - educated rednecks," announces Hayseed Dixie's frontman Barley Scotch, taking a giant gulp from a bottle of Newcastle Brown ale. You might easily mistake the band for a ...

The Newton Music Festival, set in a leafy park in Cheshire, isn't exactly Glastonbury. Attractions include a fairground and a heavy metal band fronted by a bald man with a beer belly. This is, however ...

Hayseed Dixie, a bluegrass outfit that covers heavy metal, is a concept that works better on paper than in reality. Oh, the band’s greasy crawl through AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” is a ...

Hayseed Dixie's John Wheeler onstage at Gumbo Blues 'n' Roots Festival, Bishop's Castle Celebrating the release of their fifteenth album - you read that correctly - hillbilly rock band Hayseed Dixie ...

"Downright disgusted and sick to the soul"of the music they were hearing out there, Hayseed Dixie cut 2001 debut A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC in two days, loaded on beer and bourbon. Now, from the ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: This four-man bluegrass band can pick like hell. At the same time, let’s address the central question posed by Hayseed Dixie’s very existence: Can a ...

East Nashville, Tennessee in the Summer of 2000 was a proper Bohemian party place, and a few friends stopped by, drank some of John's whiskey, and played and sang on this recording here and there, as ...

From the bosom of the Appalachians, where tales are tall, comes the hillbilly rock band Hayseed Dixie. Frontman Barley Scotch claims that he and his bandmates grew up in Deer Lick Holler, playing ...

Hayseed Dixie began in the Summer of 2000, when Barley Scotch (aka John Wheeler) stumbled across a wrecked car on an isolated mountain road in the hills of Deer Lick Holler, East Tennessee. While ...