The advent of the COVID pandemic in 2019/20 halted SCOTS touring and

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 intimate songs directly addressed the isolation and frustration caused by the pandemic (‘Call Me’) while ‘Run Baby Run’ was a garage rock stomper. SCOTS eventually returned to the road in late 2021. The 2000 album Liquored Up and Lacquered Down was re-released on Kudzu Records in 2023, with three bonus tracks plus a cover of Doug Sahm’s ‘Nitty Gritty’.