Bauer EwaldIst nicht ganz falsch, wobei es bei uns auch viele kluge Bauernlümmel gibt, die die Band schätzen. Eigentlich wächst hier jeder mit der Musik von AC/DC auf. Was natürlich klar für Herkentrup spricht.
Hey, das klingt ein bißchen wie der Text im Booklet von Hayseed Dixie, wo sie die Entstehung der Platte „Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC“ erklären wollen:
From the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler, deep in the heart of Appalachia, comes a sound that is old yet new. In an area completely isolated from outside cultural and musical influence, this band of acoustic musicians grew up playing the traditional music of their forefathers. Then, as fate would have it, one crisp fall afternoon, a stranger passed through the holler. Well, he almost made it through. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for appreciators of great music worldwide, the stranger crashed his car into a stately old oak tree at Devil’s Elbow Curve. Sadly, the stranger expired, but his legacy lives on. For under the back seat of his car, the boys found some old black vinyl records as they went through his belongings looking for identification. All they had to listen to them on was an old Edison Victrola that only played at 78 R.P.M., but the boys all agreed it was some mighty fine country music. So, in memory of the stranger who had perished the boys set about learning these songs . . . “
The records in the car, of course, were by the band AC/DC. And the boys recorded an album of the songs in their own mountain / bluegrass style – with fiddle, mandolin, banjo and such. As singer, guitar & fiddle player Barley Scotch says:
„Yeah . . . so when we was first listening to those records . . . I mean, it became REVEALED to me – that the Lost Highway of Brother Hank Williams and that Highway to Hell them boys was singing about . . . well, I KNEW: they’re the same damn road!“
The band performed over 300 live dates from 2001 through the end of 2003, sold over 200,000 copies of the album worldwide, and appeared on every major morning radio show in the US and Australia