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Hayseed Dixie On The Road

• 2nd Jul 2010

Hayseed Dixie, who are known to be armed to the teeth with acoustic instruments and are considered extremely dangerous, have announced they will be touring the UK in July, September and October to promote their recently released album, Killer Grass. With over 200 live shows planned for 2010, it appears they cannot be stopped, they can only be contained.

Killer Grass is Hayseed Dixie’s 8th studio album, and is packaged as a combined CD and DVD set. The CD contains 7 original songs and 6 Rockgrass re-interpretations of previously known works (by everyone from Mozart to Queen to The Prodigy), all of which focus on themes of killing and death hence the title, Killer Grass. “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.

The DVD contains music videos for 6 songs as well as 5 instructional “tutorial” videos addressing everything from how to play rockgrass banjo, to how to hide the body. Most importantly, and historically, the DVD also contains the complete unedited multi-track audio files (in universal 16 bit WAV format) for the entire album which the user can mix and remix to their heart's content in such computer programs as Garage Band, Logic, Pro Tools or iMovie – any programme which allows the mixing of WAV files. Even more interesting, in an attempt to keep their girlfriends' ageing mothers from hearing it, a bonus song called “Love Cabin” only appears in raw multi-track form, and must be mixed by the user in order to be heard.

Killer Grass is either their absolute greatest musical achievement or absolute worst offence yet, depending on your personal perspective, but it is absolutely nothing in between.