GuilFest 2006. The 3 Day Guildford Music Festival on 14th, 15th and 16th July 2006

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Artist: Hayseed Dixie
Genre: Epic - think banjo plucking covers of The Darkness - quality!!
Performing: 17th July 2005 / Uncut Stage - 2
Website Address: [www.cookingvinyl.com] ,
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From the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler , deep in the heart of Appalachia , comes a sound that is old yet new. In an area completely isolated from outside cultural and musical influence, this band of acoustic musicians grew up playing the traditional music of their forefathers. Then, as fate would have it, one crisp fall afternoon a stranger passed through the holler. Well, he almost passed through.

Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for appreciators of great music worldwide, the stranger crashed his muscle car into a stately old oak tree at Devil's Elbow curve. Sadly, the stranger expired, but his legacy lives on. In the back seat of his car the boys found a box of old vinyl records as they went through his belongings looking for some identification. The name of the band on the records was AC/DC, and though all they had on which to listen to them was an old Edison Victrola that only played at 78 R.P.M., the boys all agreed that it was mighty fine country music - a bit different, but mighty fine just the same.

In memory of the stranger who had perished, the boys set about learning these new songs, injecting elements of their own traditional mountain style. And thus, from these unlikely beginnings, an entirely new musical and cultural synthesis was set in motion. Rockgrass was born. As if the Creator Himself had uttered, "Let there be Rockgrass!"

Featuring interpretations of 12 classic rock songs by the likes of AC/DC, Kiss, Motorhead, Queen, Aerosmith, Bad Company The Darkness and the J Geils Band, plus 2 original numbers and one tradition song, “Let There Be Rockgrass” is packed with surging banjo-driven arrangements and high-lonesome hillbilly harmonies – a mind-bending and genre-blending must for fans of any style of music . Full track listing as follows :

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheeap – AC/CD

Fat Bottom Girls – Queen

Whole Lotta Rosie – AC/DC

You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/CD

I Believe In A Thing Called Love – The Darkness

Ace of Spades – Motorhead

Detroit Rock City – Kiss

Corn Liquor – Original

Feel Like Making Love – Bad Company

Walk This Way – Aerosmith

Touch Too Much – AC/DC

Centerfold – J Geils Band