Haystack is the illegitimate love child of Lollipop Lamper and a Rock and Roll superstar who shall remain nameless. He was put up for adoption shortly after his birth and spent 16 months in a home. One day the toddler wandered off near a thicket of woods and was never found by the authorities. Fortunately, he found shelter in a hollowed out round bail of fescue which also provided him some nourishment - although by no means a square meal. Days later, a kindly farmer named Ferril Turnipseed found the young boy and decided that God had seen fit to send him a son. From that day forward, the toddler became Ferril's child and was aptly named Haystack.
Young Haystack displayed in inordinate ability to whistle tunes from blowing in to his father's shine jug. He soon noticed that the more he drank, the lower ( and better ) the tones sounded. This sparked a life-long interest in both music and getting sloshed - as made clearly evident by the Jake & Haystack recordings. Years later, when Jake became of legal age, he left the farm and hitched a ride on a turnip truck for the big city of Nashville, Tn. He never quite made it there - for while sleeping it off after one particular practice session, he fell off the turnip truck near Murfreesboro, Tn.
A kindly gent by the name of Jake ( who shared his love for music) found him and his broken jug by the roadside and invited him home for food and super glue. The rest as they say, is history.