Artist: Hayseed Dixie Title: No Covers Label: Cooking Vinyl Ltd
Hayseed Dixie, the band that have played 612 gigs in 17 countries in 7 years, release their seventh album.
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Editor review : Let youir hair down and dance
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Overall rating
4.0
Originality
5.0
Lyrics
5.0
Memorability
4.0
Melody
3.0
Production Quality
3.0
So you're at the Reading festival and you're eating a horrible tub of expensive noodles. It's mid afternoon and you're sunburnt. You wish you hadn't drunk that martini and orange squash combo you had last night in a plastic bottle. What do you do now?
If you're lucky, you go and watch Hayseed Dixie. This country/rock band first claimed fame with their covers of AC/DC (get it?) Their entertaining lyrics are surprisingly intelligent (one song is jokingly dedicated to Camus), the musicianship is inventive and the melodies are sing-along joyous.
This album features comedy songs sung from the perspective of the slacker hick male. 'You got me all wrong baby' assures a girlfriend that, despite her hopes that he's sensitive deep down, he actually is that shallow. 'Donkeys in Morocco' saracastically entreaties donors to look after 'cats with their skin torn off.' 'Born to die in France' bemoans the hick situation of having the 'taxman's hands deep down my pants.'
Like all comedy albums, you're going to tire of the joke after a couple of plays. But for one lazy afternoon, this band will make you smile. They are the perfect antidote to the stereotype that all Americans are humourless, Bush supporting, narrow-minded workaholics. They also prove that country music doesn't have to be serious.
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