"A man can look back and read something into it," he says thoughtfully. It's funny but intelligent music and Scotch becomes philosophical when questions turn to the mysterious stranger whose death at Devil's Elbow Curve gave these boys something unique to take to the world. With an album which includes oink noises from the band and energetic treatments of AC/DC, Hayseed Dixie are highly entertaining but also thoroughly proficient country musicians. I think you have a couple of establishments down there." Right now we're trying to drink and play our way in every alcohol establishment across the planet, which is why we insisted on getting the record released where you are. "We come from a long line of investigators in the alternate fuel and liquor industry. "Ever seen Bugs Bunny? That big ol' rooster Foghorn Leghorn? Until I was 13 years old I thought somebody from out in California had went an' met my granddad and based it on him. Scotch denies his world view has been coloured by corn mash whiskey, although concedes his grandfather was a hog-farmin' moonshiner "and also sometimes a Church of Christ preacher whenever it was effective for the business". "People oftentimes ask me about love and I always tell 'em love is not a key element, just a fundamental cause of all the drinkin', cheatin', killin' and hell that's going on in the world."
So there's all four key elements right there. In the fourth verse the ol' boy who gets framed for it is layin' in prison thinkin' about goin' to hell. In the third verse her husband shows up and stabs her, so there's your killin'. "In the first verse the guy walks into the bar and starts drinkin', in the second he hooks up with the gal behind the bar and they go in the back room and start with the cheatin'. He cites by way of example the old Stanley Brothers song The Girl Behind the Bar. "We always said there were four key elements to any song worth singin': drinkin', cheatin', killin' and hell." Their album A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC has sold over 100,000 in the States and Scotch says coupling AC/DC to hillbilly music made sense to them. "You tell me who was more personally committed."Īlong with some of them boys on fiddle and mandolin, Scotch set about learning the AC/DC songs and took their bluegrass interpretations to the wider world as Hayseed Dixie. Ol' brother Hank was 29 years old when he drunk hisself to death and it took ol' Bon Scott of AC/DC an additional five years to accomplish that same thing. "When we first started listenin' to them AC/DC tunes it became revealed to me that the Lost Highway of Hank Williams and the Highway to Hell were the same road," says Deer Lick Holler's Barley Scotch.
They took them home to the wind-up 78rpm gramophone and, by putting a finger on the shellac to slow it down, managed to decipher the lyrics. The dead stranger's legacy lives on because in his car some local boys found a pile of black vinyl records, all by AC/DC. So it was a significant day when a stranger drove into the valley on a crisp autumn afternoon two or more decades ago - and promptly crashed into the old oak at Devil's Elbow Curve and killed himself. It's where musicologists go to study authentic hillbilly music - and be fearful of the sound of Duelling Banjos. The remote community of Deer Lick Holler in the Appalachians isn't on the way to anywhere, so there aren't many outside influences.
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