Lewis leaving

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 previously. Both Huff and Hartman were from Roanoke, Virginia . The band explored different styles before deciding on a ” swamp rock thing”. Eventually the three-piece SCOTS released Too Much Pork for Just One Fork on Moist Records in 1991, with SCOTS’ evolving signature sound, and humorous lyrical tales concerning southern US culture, particularly sex and food (‘Eight Piece Box’). The rockier, rawer-sounding album For Lovers Only followed in 1992 on Safe House Records , featuring Huff on lead vocals for ‘Daddy Was a Preacher But Mama Was a Go-Go Girl’. SCOTS released two EPS in 1993, the half-studio half-live Peckin’ Party (Feedbag Records) and Girlfight on Sympathy for the Record Industry . 1994 saw the release of the more country-flavoured album Ditch Diggin’ , again on Safe House, with cleaner production and slightly shorter, tighter songs. The album also featured covers of the Louvin Brothers (‘The Great Atomic Power’) and Link Wray (‘Jack the Ripper Pts. 1 & 2’) which had been part of live shows. In 1994 they began convening and headlining an annual roots-rock music festival entitled Sleazefest , held late summer in Chapel Hill.