Track Listing

1. Bouncing Betty Boogie
2. Set Myself on Fire
3. When Washington Comes Around
4. Born to Die in France
5. Stephanie Come to Me Secretly
6. Stonewall Hicks
7. Everybody Knows
8. Gonna Be Alright
9. You've Got Me All Wrong Baby
10. Trickle Down
11. Last Days Coming
12. Donkeys in Morocco
13. Frustration
14. That's It I Quit

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76735 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
American Rockgrass raconteurs Hayseed Dixie release their seventh album 'No Covers', a new full length album of all original material. And this time around, the term "original material" means both that they wrote all the songs themselves and also that you've never heard anything quite like it. Well...honestly when have you ever heard anything quite like a Hayseed Dixie album? Seven years of touring the world being the hardest working band in Europe has its own impact on a band and their musical approach. After playing nearly every festival, big or small, in Europe and watching every other band employ drums and electric guitars, the Hayseed boys decided they wanted to put a bit of that instrumentation into their own music. Says singer Barley Scotch, "We really wanted to stick a finger in the face of all those people who once called Bob Dylan a Judas." Thus, half of the songs are acoustic and half are fully electric. Rockgrass, the musical genre created by Hayseed Dixie, has finally come full circle. And the lyrics may surprise people who have written the Dixie off on previous albums as merely a slapstick novelty act. For example, the first song 'Bouncing Betty Boogie' could be about chatting up a loose girl in a bar … or it could be about sarcastically yet sincerely daring a land mine to dance. We could say that this album heralds the ascendance of a major new songwriting voice, but by the time history makes that decision conclusively, all of us currently alive will be dead, so draw your own conclusions and strike the pose of Ozymandius if you must

Customer Reviews

The difference between their good and their bad is a yawning cleft
Best known for their novelty bluegrass takes on familiar rock and pop songs (albums of AC/DC and Kiss covers, for instance), these hillbilly rockers have finally put out a recording of all original material.
The result is patchy, but there are some toe-tappers and a couple of serious tracks, too. The songs, for the most part, essentially are fun pop tunes, with plenty of hooks and sing-along choruses, delivered in a bluegrassy southern rock style. About half the album is electric.
The tone is set by the opener, the rocking and ambiguous Bouncing Betty Boogie, before slowing it down with the insane love song, Set Myself On Fire, which has a clever familiarity with Cat Stevens' First Cut is the Deepest. The band delves into politics with the accusing When Washington Comes Around and Trickle Down, a rage against US economic policies, played fast, with furious banjo and scratchy fiddle. Their style is deliberately crossover, but this risks leaving fans of bluegrass and rock unsatisfied.