Hayseed Dixie - Weapons Of Grass Destruction (2007)

Date: Dec. 1, 2011

Hayseed Dixie established their gimmick on their debut album, in which they covered ten AC/DC tunes in bluegrass style, and five albums later they haven't gone out of their way to mess with their formula. Released in 2007, Weapons of Grass Destruction features the band bringing the twang to another batch of unlikely covers, running the gamut from the Beatles to Turbonegro, with the Scissor Sisters, the Sex Pistols, and Judas Priest sitting somewhere in between. However, the band has written four original songs to pad out the 11 covers on display, and while "She Was Skinny When I Met Her" suggests this is at best a mixed blessing, the genuinely funny road story of "The Rider Song" proves Hayseed Dixie can get laughs with their own material when they put their minds to it. The covers break little if any new ground, though Francis Rossi sits in with the band for a rendition of Status Quo's "Down Down," and if Hayseed Dixie don't deliver the sort of power or manic drive that the Bad Livers, Split Lip Rayfield, or the acoustic Supersuckers brought to similarly themed material, they pick with clean strength and their sense of showmanship manages to communicate well in the studio. It's rather impressive that Hayseed Dixie, who seemed like a one-joke band if there ever were such a thing, are still wringing laughs out of said joke this far down the line, and while this is hardly essential stuff, if you ever wanted to hear a version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" that quotes "Cotton Eyed Joe," you need look no further than Weapons of Grass Destruction.–by Mark Deming

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1. Holidays In The Sun 2:46
2. Devil Woman 3:16
3. I Don't Feel Like Dancing 3:48
4. She Was Skinny When I Met Her 1:57
5. Strawberry Fields Forever 3:12_Play_
6. Before Your Old Man Gets Home 3:00
7. Breaking The Law 2:33
8. More Pretty Girls Than One 2:49
9. Down Down 4:08
10. Walking Cane 3:21
11. Paint It Black 3:47_Play_
12. Hungover Brokedown 3:46
13. Poison 4:06
14. The Rider Song 3:24
15. I Got Erection (Bonus) 2:46
16. BBQ (Extra Track) 1:47_Play_

Personnel:
Barley Scotch - Guitar,Vocals,Fiddle,Acoustic Drums
Reverend Don Wayne Reno - Banjo
Deacon Dale Reno - Mandolin
Jake Bakesnake Byres - Bass

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Hayseed Dixie / Weapons of Grass Destruction

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BIO: Hayseed Dixie is a novelty band that issued a tribute album to heavy metal legends AC/DC in 2001 (completely reworking the Australian band's classics as country/hillbilly rave-ups), titled A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. Their sense of humor is also evident in their bio, which claims that the band hails from Deer Lick Holler, "deep in the heart of the Appalachia," where its members grew up playing the traditional hillybilly music of their forefathers. But as fate would have it, they just so happened to stumble across AC/DC's back catalog of recordings when a stranger driving through the boy's hometown crashed his car and perished, but his records were saved by Hayseed Dixie! The bandmembers of AC/DC have taken quite a liking to Hayseed Dixie, as AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams invited the band to play a set at the band's tour wrap-up party at his East Coast mountain retreat in summer 2001. Hayseed Dixie isn't the kind of group to let a smart-ass idea go to waste, and followed the AC/DC album with 2002's A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love, which gave the same bluegrass treatment to assorted hard rock songs. Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss appeared a year later in 2003. A Hot Piece of Grass was released on Cooking Vinyl Records in 2005 and two years later, following the same theme, Weapons of Grass Destruction, which featured covers of songs by the Beatles, Judas Priest, and the Scissor Sisters, among others, came out.–by Greg Prato

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