Once in a while a band gets lucky and meets its song.

Hayseed Dixie met Survivor's Eye Of The Tiger on Jools Holland's 2014 Hootenanny and their 15-year, 15-album rockgrass odyssey received a shot like a jar of grandpa's corn liquor.

The sold-out crowd came to witness and H.D. testified that the Highway Of Hank Williams is indeed the same road as AC/DC's Highway To Hell.

Their new album, Hair Down To My Grass, visits 1970s and 1980s stadium rock anthems such as Journey's Don't Stop Believing and hillbillies them in a way that a band hailing from Deer Lick Holler, East Tennessee, has licence to.

The four-piece boasts an acoustic bass player with the best beard in the Western World, a banjo player with the fastest fingers, and a demented mandolin player with eyes that kept rolling out of his head.

Lest we forget, Barley Scotch fronted the band, hosted the party, obsessed over Jeremy Paxman and gave us a fiddle when we needed one.

Two hours of music about drinking, killing and hell makes for the best party, and that's what this was.

Hayseed Dixie passed around the corn liquor and everyone enjoyed a skinful.