[SMARTY]

So why the Dixie accent?

Usually people who do the ‘pretend Dixie’ thing do it to mock Americans and especially to mock Conservative Americans...

So this guy found a way to cash in on it, instead?

[Phillyred]

Relax. Just enjoy the tune. He certainly isn’t mocking anything. I would rather pay guys like him to record music than 99% of the crap today (or yesterday).

[mountn man]

I saw an interview with Def Leppard one time. Joe Elliot was saying, that when they worked with Mutt Lange, he taught them to put certain vocalizations in there music, LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC does.

They did, and look what it did for them.

But there is something about the way Aussies speak that allows them to sing southern style country very well.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’ve known Aussies who came to this country and rather quickly (within a couple of years) had ditched the Down Under accent and adopted something close to wherever they were living.

Talking that way just requires too much energy IMO.

[Fiji Hill]

So why the Dixie accent?

If I didn't know where the Rolling Stones came from, I would swear from the accent in which they sing that they hailed from somewhere west of the Suwannee and east of the Brazos.