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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 21/09/2026

And the sky looks painted on from my front porch this morning.

John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 10/09/2026

When your country colonised half the world, and gave all the crap jobs to the "lower caste" for generations, and yet you now complain that the guys checking your bags in the airport aren't white enough, nevermind they might well be born and raised in the UK, several generations since even? What R U?

Arron Banks bitching airport security at LHR aren't white enough.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 08/09/2026

Percentages of people in each German state who did not vote for the AfD.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 05/09/2026

October Hayseed Dixie tour, Y'all.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 31/08/2026

Damn right. No computer will ever be able to play lap steel. Ever.

A lap steel with "This Machine Kills AI"

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 26/08/2026

Lake Ontario is the Native American name for said lake. The Canadian province is named for the lake. It's a far more authentic American name than "America" actually, which is named for Italian mapmaker and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, or "Mar-a-Lago," which is sort-of Spanish for "Lake by the Sea."

Trump tweet suggesting changing Lake Ontario's name to Lake America.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 13/08/2026

Standing on a street in a town before one of our shows, watching passers by, it is often obvious who will be in the crowd later.

People walking down the street in hillbilly clothes.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 08/08/2026

I do truly love a good Pilsner beer at sunset, and this excellent local German Pilsner is 1€ (about $1.15 or £0.85) per bottle in the local grocery store. A man could get carried away for cheap in Germany if he were to let himself!

Me drinking a beer in front of my house.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 08/08/2026

Of course, the other way of looking at this is that we fellows in the top 20% well and truly have our pick! Cheers to aspirations of hypergamy! (laughs and chuckles of a dismissive yet devious nature)

Ad saying 80% of women all compete for the same 20% of men. the

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 23/07/2026

Selbstporträt inmitten von Sonnenblumen.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 21/07/2026

In the DM here in Heidelberg (which is like a Walgreens in the US or a Boots in the UK), the selection of reading glasses is directly beside the condoms. I don't know what this signifies, but I feel it must signify something worth considering.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 19/06/2026

With World Cup time upon us again, the girls are asserting their allegiance. Let's see if we make it through the night without getting burnt out of the neighbourhood! (We live in Heidelberg, Germany.)

Our house with big England Football flag.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 09/01/2026

It's coming. On February 8. Everywhere. For the 25th Anniversary. Hard Country Rockgrass, y'all. This is my favorite album cover we've ever done, probably because we didn't do it! My wife had the idea for it, one of her old uni friends set the still-life up and photographed it.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 29/10/2025

Took my daughter for a tour of the International Criminal Court in the Hague today. I hate that this court needs to exist, but I'm beyond glad that it does. There are a couple of folks with outstanding arrest warrants who I deeply hope are soon sitting inside being referred to as "defendant."

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 15/06/2025

Seeing this old olive tree, I now have a clear and distinct idea of the truest meaning of the word, "gnarled."

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 15/06/2025

I don't know what this tells us, but it feels like it should tell us something. Maybe that the Orthodox communion are a bunch of stuck ups? Hmmm.

By country, percentages who think their culture is superior.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 08/06/2025

Today on "Scenes From Our Dumb World":

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 03/06/2025

In case you hadn't yet noticed.

Today is the day that Billy Joe McAlester jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 30/05/2025

This Roman ampitheatre in Lyon is stunning, and it's truly impressive and a bit mind-wobbling how they had a PA and lighting rig that is state of the art even by today's standards. Those Romans had it going on!!!

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 19/05/2025

The review of our set from the Bühl Bluegrass Fest in Baden, Germany Y'all. They say they've never seen or heard anything like it, that we were really loud and wild, and that it was the first full-on "rock concert" ever given by a bluegrass band there. We'll take that!

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 19/05/2025

This one tweet is the measure of this man.

Trump Jr. mocks Biden's cancer diagnosis.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 04/05/2025

It's enough to make you think, if you're so inclined.

Map of the world, divided half and half by population, essentially 1 part Indian Subcontinent, China, Korea, Japan as half, and everywhere else.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 25/04/2025

The 3 words "post-war economic boom" are doing much work here without being properly explained: the rest of the developed world was in ruins from WWII & the US had all the industry. This couldn't last. The "post-war boom" was a particular historical moment, not the result of inherent US supremacy.

Text of meme: The best year for wealth distribution in the U.S. is often considered to be the period following World War Il, particularly the 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, income inequality was relatively low, and the middle class experienced significant growth.
The Gini coefficient, a common measure of income inequality, was at its lowest in the late 1960s. The post-war economic boom, combined with strong labor unions, progressive taxation, and social programs, contributed to a more equitable distribution of wealth.
Since then, income inequality has generally increased, particularly from the late 1970s onward, with wealth becoming increasingly concentrated among the top earners.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 24/04/2025

A friend passed this along to me today. And the really interesting thing to me here is . . . I honestly have no idea if this is satire or if this is earnest. It could truly be either and it would look exactly like this!

Computer generated image of several women wearing red hats, saluting, obviously pregnant. Behind them a huge US flag, river of fire, cross with Jesus hanging off it, and a bald eagle sitting on the cross.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 14/04/2025

Where's his tie? Does he even own a tie?!?

Trump and El Salvador president, who is not wearing a tie, so I'm sarcastically asking why he's dressed so casual, since they gave Zelenskyy crap for wearing his nation's military fatigues.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 13/04/2025

EU hellfire and brimstone just about to go down, Y'all.

Hayseed Dixie upcoming EU tour dates. See them here: https://hayseed-dixie.com/tour-dates/

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 07/04/2025

Paying a visit to the waterfall around the corner from Heidegger's Haus in the Hochschwarzwald, Y'all. I wrote a song about it. You wanna hear it? Here it is: open.spotify.com/track/6gJ9w8...

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 04/04/2025

Oh my God. Y'all. Only 12 days remain until the release of the next Rockgrass Masterpiece. The Grassphemy EP. April 17, Y'all. Good Friday. Venerdì Santo. Karfreitag. Grassphemy on Good Friday. Y'all.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 03/04/2025

@helenbarrett.bsky.social Maybe it's time for Hayseed Dixie to record that Depeche Mode album, "Music for. the Grasses." Side one: Blasphemous Rumours Everything Counts Master and Servant Never Let Me Down Fly on the Windscreen Now taking suggestions for side 2!!! Operators are standing by!

Music critic expressing disdain for what probably is a truly awful acoustic cover of a Depeche Mode song.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 31/03/2025

If there is a good use for so-called AI, then it is to create this: Mr. T enjoys ice tea with ice cube with Ice T and Ice Cube.

Mr. T, Ice-T, and Ice Cube drinking tea.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 29/03/2025

The wife is at a yoga retreat, one daughter is on a school ski trip and the other daughter is out with friends. You know what that means . . . Oh yeah. It's gnarly guitar tone time!

54 Les Paul guitar, Imperial Tone King anp, Schmucker Bier.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 28/03/2025

When you're sitting in your studio mixing on some tracks you just cut, you don't need to be drinking the local Schmucker Bier out of a matching glass, or wearing a silly English hat, but it doesn't hurt anything either. Prost!

Me in my studio, holding a Schmucker Bier glass.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 27/03/2025

Fascinating stuff here from the FT. Couldn't call it unexpected that as wealth has been increasingly concentrated in fewer & fewer tech elites, everybody else has become more & more reliant on government money. Home truths coming. There is only so much pain you can blame on other poor people.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 23/03/2025

Coming in October to the UK, the Hayseed Dixie "Why the hell have we never had a beer here before?" tour. This tour is taking place entirely in towns where the band has not yet played and after regular UK touring for the past 21 years, we've had to dig deep. And so should you.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 17/03/2025

Remember this from 2018? It was the cover story they were all talking.

Rees Mogg says "President Trump will be our greatest ally after Brexit."

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 15/03/2025

Tonight, I'm drinking local Schwarzbier, Y'all.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 13/03/2025

These are the 6 different views of the same scene which made up the 6 different album covers of Led Zep's "In Through the Out Door." Some of you may know this, but it was shot on a set, built from scratch to look like a bar in New Orleans. Every detail was crafted just for this picture.

6 different versions of Led Zep's In Through the Out Door cover image.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 26/02/2025

If you ever get the chance, the National Art Museum in Copenhagen is exceptional. I've spent all day exploring it and getting my emotions yanked to and fro.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 23/02/2025

And the UK leg of this tour is done. Mostly sell outs. People in the UK keep coming to see us play our very individual take on music and I keep doing it. Our support act for the tour, Kit Trigg, was excellent and these young firepissers are going to do great. Lovely fellows. It has been a privilege.

Picture of Hayseed Dixie and support band.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 22/02/2025

Last UK show of the spring tonight in Shoreham. Tonight's English sparkling wine is another one I've never had before, and it's amongst the better ones.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 24/01/2025

Ich sage euch allen: Unless UK Labour gets its collective head out of its own major intestine, the next UK general election will deliver prime minister Farage.

UK poll showing Reform=26%, Conservatives=23%, Labour=22%, Lib Dems=12%, Greens=10%

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 20/01/2025

Same in Heidelberg, Germany.

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 15/01/2025

In Heidelberg auch. Für die Grünen hier sogar noch etwas mehr. Doch dort drüben in Ludwigshafen. . .

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 03/01/2025

This is the past year. Not a lot of movement. The most likely outcome is a coalition between CDU (center-right, Merkel's old party) and the SPD (center-left, Scholz's party) and that would be just fine. A bit boring, but just fine.

Germany polls for the past year syhowing CDU around 30%, AfD around 18%, SPD around 15%

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John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com · 30/12/2024

Y'all so crazy and morbid! I had the best goulash of my life around the corner from this church. It cost something like 6€ in 2015.

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