The advent of the COVID pandemic in 2019/20 halted SCOTS touring and performing. The band managed to write and record some songs in a makeshift set-up in Miller’s living room, these forming the basis of 2021’s At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids album. Stripped-back arrangements of necessarily more…
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Album The Kudzu Ranch , released in 2010 on Kudzu Records (as would all future albums), represented the first original recorded material from SCOTS in six years. But it allayed any thought the band had lost their mojo with tracks like ‘Pig Pickin’’, ‘Bone Dry Dirt’ and ‘My Neighbor Burns…
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Without a label, SCOTS toured steadily for a few years. Zombified (1998) was a limited, independent release themed around horror movies from drive-ins and late-night TV. SCOTS’ next widely released album appeared in 2000, Liquored Up and Lacquered Down , on TVT Records . The multiple alcohol-themed songs reflected the…
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SCOTS’ increasing popularity created major label interest and they signed to Geffen subsidiary DGC in 1995. The following year saw the first recorded version of ‘Camel Walk’ appear, on a Mexican wrestling-themed EP entitled Santo Swings! SCOTS’ first DGC album, Dirt Track Date featured re-recorded versions of popular songs from…
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After these releases, the band felt that they lacked direction. This led to Lewis leaving in 1987, soon followed by Land. Miller took over on lead vocals, with Mary Huff joining on bass and vocals. Huff suggested Dave Hartman as new drummer, whom she had played with in another band…
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Guitarist and founding member Rick Miller grew up dividing his time between his father’s home and business in Henderson, North Carolina and his mother’s home in southern California. Miller completed an art degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill . The first incarnation of Southern Culture on…
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In their earlier days, SCOTS occasionally performed as their own opening act under the name The Pinecones, playing songs inspired by 1960s country-rock and psychedelia typical of artists like Gram Parsons , The Byrds, The Seeds and The Chocolate Watchband (amongst others). This led to SCOTS’ 2016 album The Electric…
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