
Hayseed Dixie began one innocent Summer day in 2000 when John Wheeler and Mike Daly drank roughly enough whiskeyto float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back anddecided to play around in John’s studio. Having spent the previous few yearstouring around with assorted country hat-acts, John had assembled a proper pileof recording equipment. Thus when he and Mike discovered in their drunkenepiphany that the Lost Highway of Reverend Hank Williams and the Highway toHell of Bishop Bon Scott were indeed the same identical stretch of tarmac, theywere well and truly prepared to document this revelation in situ. East Nashville,Tennessee in the Summer of 2000 was a proper Bohemi