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Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute To Kiss

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I've been a KISS fan since 1976 and I love this album. The musicianship is incredible and it's great to see that some people still have a sense of humor about things. There's nothing sacred about KISS music, so why not? It's only Rock And Roll. Love Gun is a riot, Cold Gin is done as kind of a slow ballad, and Let's Put The X In Sex is even better as a bluegrass song. This album is fabulous. If you like KISS and you have a sense of humor, buy it!

Where Hayseed Dixie succeed is in their ability to take their incredible musicianship and apply it toward a genre of music that is about as far from their area of expertise as one can possibly get. They are obviously KISS fans (as evidenced by the "I'm so alive" added into Detroit Rock City to mimic Paul Stanley's ad lib from the Alive II album) and they do the songs justice on this excellent album. Grab a beer or two, sit on the porch, crank up this CD and enjoy an album that is as fun as any that have come along recently. If you're a KISS fan and don't take yourself too seriously, this is a CD for you. I've been a KISS fan ever since I cut a day of grammar school so I could run to the record store just as Love Gun was being put on the shelves for sale, and I think Hayseed Dixie are the Hottest Band in the World.

Until you've heard your favorite band covered in a different genre, you never really know how good or bad their music really is. In this case KISS' music is for KISS only. Not country/blue grass. I think the one thing that struck the side of my head like a brick from a truck with a gun rack, was just how insipid KISS lyrics truly are. This is a fun album. Don't get me wrong, but KISS doesn't work in this arena. On the other hand, the reason why this band exists is AC/DC. Their first album of AC/DC tunes is excellent and displays how well everything works in the world of mountain music.

The Hayseed Dixie boys are back and are once again sending a hillbilly tribute out to another band...KISS!

This is a great CD. Any KISS fan would be pleased with this recording. This is also a great way for a lot of bluegrass/country/comedy listeners to get into the band. This vocals on the CD is very soothing in a bluegrass kind of way. Hayseed Dixie are great musicians and they know their KISS. Most of the tracks on this CD are laid-back versions of the real songs. "Cold Gin" and "Love Gun" are great tracks. Faster songs on this cut such as "Rock 'n Roll All Night" and "Lets Put the X in Sex" speed the album up just when it needs it.

In conclusion, I would recommend this album to anyone who is a KISS fan, but, don't take it too seriously.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars b/c I wish Hayseed Dixie would add some drums to their work. Thanks!!!

Hayseed Dixie is bluegrass. They are some guys sitting around on the porch sipping shine and enjoying life.
They also happen to be some great musicians. They can play with anyone.
I don't know what went through their minds when they decided to take ROCK songs and convert those songs into bluegrass. Using only my imagination, I could picture a drunken Saturday night when they were sitting around saying, "Hey, listen to this."
This CD is as fun as any of there other ones and played with as much musical talent. They are GOOD.

As someone who occasionally does stand-up comedy and drops to his knees to thank God for the joke of KISS after every set, I have to admit that no joke I do will ever be funnier than the songs themselves.
Hayseed Dixie (a play on 'AC/DC') has given the joke new life using a music genre I reluctantly admit to liking despite not caring for much of its audience (not a slam against the south, a sincere slam against bluegrass fans wherever they live). This band seems to get both jokes and executes them extremely well. I was very happy that they included the no-make-up classic "Let's Put The X Into Sex."
These things said, I fully acknowledge that the joke might wear thin early for some. But if you like Mojo Mixon or Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, definitely check out at least one of their albums.

Well first off to all the nay-sayers out there. These are real musicians. The Banjo player and the mandolin player are as real as they come. There names are Dale and Don Reno. There known as the Reno Brothers. They by themselves have made over 20 CD's and are well know in the Bluegrass music field. They have been on the Grand Old Opry on many many times. They also had there own show on TNN, it was called the Reno Old Time Music Hour. They are very good and I know them personally. There father was very well known, he co-wrote the music for "The Dueling Banjos" preformed by Flatt and Scruggs.
I'd heard Hayseed Dixie on the Bob and Tom Show. I purchased the first CD by them before I knew The Reno Bros. were band members. They use alias names in the band. I can't wait to see them live here in Nashville. There playing Live tonight and I'm going to catch the show.
Get the CD it's worth the money.

This week saw the release of two new tribute albums honoring bands who: a) wear uniforms; b) love barre chords; c) can't sing to save their lives.

The first is an all-star lineup of generally acceptable superduperstar artists lovingly covering the music, much of it "lost gems," of one of the most esteemed Noo Yawk quartets in the history of rock.

The other is the third (?!?) album by a confederation of redneck alcoholic clowns who specialize in playing heavy metal in a nyuck-nyuck bluegrass style covering the music, much of it the obvious hits, of perhaps the most detested Noo Yawk quartet in the history of rock.

Guess which one rocks harder than Bobby Ray's pickup on the secret dirt road to Granny's still?

While listening to this album I felt as if the kid from Deliverance was gonna pop into my bedroom window with his Banjo and try to put the moves on me. KISS is three chord hard rock, no matter how these guys try, they can't make it sound good with a banjo and twangy accents. It's worse then their AC/DC hillbilly music. Unless you totally dig banjo music, stay away from this album. It's not funny, it's like karoke with a banjo.

I am an avid KISS fan. This was to me more of a "Let's do something no one else has done before and we can sell a lot of records" type of thing. The feel, the power and the emotions that make a KISS song a KISS song were stripped from the songs themselves. I started out wanting to laugh, but by the end of listening to the cd, I was ready to burn it! This was an absolute disgrace to the greatest ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER!! As far as being good musicians and having extreme talent and wonderful harmonies, Hayseed Dixie have it all. They just need to understand that there's NOT a fine line between ROCK AND ROLL and bluegrass, they are world's apart. So, do a soundtrack to the sequal of "O'BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?" and let KISS do the soundtrack to their own career.
NEVER STOP ROCKIN'!!
Stephen Trent