{"id":1153,"date":"2018-02-01T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:17:05","slug":"nathan-carter-announces-special-guests-at-sse-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/02\/01\/nathan-carter-announces-special-guests-at-sse-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Carter Announces Special Guests at Belfast&#8217;s SSE Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 24th of March Nathan Carter will return to the SSE Arena in Belfast, this time he&#8217;s bringing along a few special surprises. Not only will his wee brother on stage with him, but legendary bluegrass group Hayseed Dixie&#8217; will also be performing at the event.\u00a0 Hayseed Dixie, who played the Belfast Empire last night are an\u00a0American\u00a0band\u00a0which began in 2001 with the release of their first album,\u00a0<i>A Hillbilly Tribute to AC\/DC<\/i>. The band performs a mixture of\u00a0cover versions\u00a0of\u00a0hard rock\u00a0songs and original compositions in a style that is a unique fusion of\u00a0bluegrass\u00a0and\u00a0rock music\u00a0and they are acknowledged as the creators of the musical genre &#8220;Rockgrass&#8221;. The band&#8217;s name is a linguistic play on the name of the band\u00a0AC\/DC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1154 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1200px-Hayseed-dixie-folken.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Here&#8217;s the guys take on their humble beginnings&#8230;&#8221;Hayseed Dixie began one innocent summer day in 2000 when John Wheeler aka Barley Scotch and his pal, dobro and pedal steel player Mike Daly, drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back and decided to play around in John\u2019s East Nashville studio. Having spent the previous few years touring around with assorted country hat-acts, John had assembled a proper pile of recording equipment and also a heroic collection of Bourbon and Scotch. Thus when he and Mike discovered in their drunken epiphany that the Lost Highway of Reverend Hank Williams and the Highway To Hell of Bishop Bon Scott were indeed the same identical stretch of tarmac, they were well and truly prepared to document this historic revelation in situ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ast forward through 17 years, 14 further albums &#8211; consisting of both original songs and reinterpretations &#8211;\u00a0 and over 1,300 live shows, and Hayseed Dixie have evolved into a proper force, one that some people deeply love, other people truly hate, and quite a lot of people have never heard of. Such is the life of a cult band. 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