From Billboard.com:
http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article ... 1001773122
Bluegrass cover band Hayseed Dixie is readying its fourth album, "Hot Piece of Grass," for a Jan. 24 release via Cooking Vinyl. Unlike its acclaimed full album tributes to Kiss and AC/DC, the new set is more like 2002's "A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love" with a mix of banjo-driven covers of rock tracks and original songs.
Given the Appalachian twang this time out of such well known numbers as Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" and "Whole Lotta Love," Black Sabbath's "War Pigs," Motorhead's "Ace of Spades," AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie," Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil" and Green Day's "Holiday."
The band is led by Barley Scotch, who under his given name, John Wheeler, produced and recorded the set at his Nashville studio. He also penned four of the album's five original tracks. One was contributed by bandmember Don Wayne Reno, who along with his brother Dale, complete the group. They are the sons of bluegrass legend Don Reno, best known for co-writing "Dueling Banjos," also covered on the new disc.
The group will support "Hot Piece of Grass" with a slate of tour dates set to begin Feb. 3 in Nashville, according to its official Web site.
-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.
New Hayseed Dixie Album Out This Month
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