Summary
JEREMY VINE WAS LISTENING to an American country music station on the internet one morning when he heard something rather unexpected - a bluegrass version of AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long, complete with freewheeling banjo riff and manic mandolin solo.
"It was hilarious," he recalls. And so the Newsnight presenter turned Radio 2 DJ became one of the first people in the UK to tune in to Hayseed Dixie, playing them regularly on his show. "They are very funny, there is no doubt about it. But when I went to see them live in London I was blown away. Their musicianship is incredible."See the full content of this document
Extract
Let There Be Banjo
Hayseed Dixie are a curious hybrid. Frontman and fiddle player John Wheeler, and the two Reno brothers, Don Wayne and Dale, play a fast and furious set, mixing banjo and mandolin with outrageous rock star fl...
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