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, ...

A gig escalated up the Academy ladder from its original venue in the tiny 3 to the top spot is testimony alone to the enduring appeal of these bluegrass marauders of the heavy rock cannon. Casting ...

"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 ...

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 ...

For a band that made their name by translating the hard rock of AC/DC and Kiss into a form of acoustic bluegrass described by some as “rock-grass”, Hayseed Dixie have come full circle. For a band that ...

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 ...

Hayseed Dixie began one innocent summer day in 2000 when John Wheeler aka Barley Scotch and his pal, dobro and pedal steel player Mike Daly, drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship 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 ...

DENIM dungarees and unruly sideburns are the order of the day as Virginia’s Hayseed Dixie roll in to town, buoyed on a steady supply of beer and ready to rock. If the pioneers of heavy metal had been ...

Is there really such a thing as a hillbilly band covering rock classics? You betcha. They are called Hayseed Dixie and they play Rockgrass. Barley Scotch is on lead vocals, fiddle and guitar. The ...