“Just how many Hayseed Dixie albums can one man own?”
Well the boys are back (after a quiet year) to put this to the test with their eighth studio album (due out in February)
I haven’t heard the full album yet, but luckily Barley has been posting teasers on YouTube for a couple of months now.
While I like Hayseed Dixie’s tongue in cheek original songs (There’s seven on this release), the good news is that the cover versions are back in the mix with rockgrass assaults on bands like Queen, The Prodigy, Black Sabbath and Mozart, all chosen to highlight the album’s theme of killing and death, although the other three elements to any song worth singing also get a good airing.
“There’s still plenty of drinking, cheating and hell in there too, as them 4 elements all go together like stink on poop,” remarks front-maniac Barley Scotch.
If that isn’t enough to get you to put your hand in your pocket though, the package also comes with a DVD with six music videos from the album and five tutorials. Want to know what to do if your banjo playing brother accidentally cuts off one of his arms, or how to play Duelling Banjos with an African darbucka, the answers are right here.
Still not enough?? Well now it’s time to try your hand at being a record producer…
The DVD contains (in full CD quality) all the multi-track audio files for the album so that you can mix the songs yourself, there’s even a track – Love Cabin – that is only available if you mix it yourself, a first for any band.
So what are you waiting for (well apart from February), get out there and fund the band’s ambitious project to drink like students.
