Hayseed Dixie @ Fat Sams Live

The new Fat Sams Live venue in Dundee has been attracting some pretty exciting acts over the last year. Next in line is Hayseed Dixie, bringing their banjos, fiddles and a bathtub of moonshine the size of their gene pool over from fictional hometown Deer Lick Holler. No longer content with churning out classic rock covers in their unique rock-grass styling, they have just released their first full length of original material, imaginatively titled No Covers. Nonetheless, expect methanol fuelled fingers plucking hillbilly renditions of everything from Motorhead to Scissor Sisters, not forgetting namesakes AC/DC. Novelty value aside, there is some notoriously good musicianship to be witnessed here, brothers Don and Dale Reno possessing the ability to play banjo and mandolin respectively at incredible speeds. Their father Don Reno wrote the famous Dueling Banjos from the Deliverance soundtrack, a song you've not really heard till you've seen these brothers battle it out for a lightspeed encore. Yeehaw! [Shaun Love]