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Southern Culture On The Skids
Courtesy of citywinery.com/Atlanta
Tuesday November 1, 2022 08:00 PM EDT
Cost: $20 - 30+
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CL Critic Hal Horowitz Recommends: It’s always a party when this trio hits town for another trawl through the trailer parks, dirt tracks, and greasy food joints that have informed their low-rent Southern existence for the past four decades. The classier, candle-lit and pricey craft beer/wine environs of this venue would seem the antithesis of everything SCOTS promotes, but their music oughta bring enough sleaze to at least allow for some flying fried chicken from the stage. — HH
From the venue:
ABOUT THE SHOWCity Winery Atlanta presents Southern Culture on the Skids live on Tuesday November 1 at 8 PMSouthern Culture On The Skids has been consistently recording and touring around the world since 1983. The band (Rick Miller - ” guitar and vocals, Mary Huff - ” bass and vocals, Dave Hartman - ” drums) has been playing together for over 30 years. Their musical journey has taken them from all-night North Carolina house parties to late night TV talk shows (Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show), from performing at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan to rockin’ out for the inmates at North Carolina correctional facilities. They’ve shared a stage with many musical luminaries including Link Wray, Loretta Lynn, Hasil Adkins and Patti Smith. Their music has been featured in movies and TV, parodied by Weird Al, and used to sell everything from diamonds to pork sausage. In 2014 the band was honored by the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with an exhibition featuring their music and cultural contributions. Their legendary live shows are a testament to the therapeutic powers of foot-stomping, butt-shaking rock and roll and what Rolling Stone dubbed “a hell raising rock and roll party.”At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids is the latest full length album from the band and was released in March of 2021. It was recorded during the stay at home period of the pandemic when the band was at home and not touring. The album consists of 11 tracks recorded and mixed in Rick Miller’s living room with some additional tracks recorded at his studio, The Kudzu Ranch.The first radio single off the album is “Run Baby Run” - “a rocking number with deep garage roots. SCOTS bassist Mary Huff provides an urgent vocal while the band pulls back the throttle on a full race fuzz fest - “cause she’s gotta to go fast! Run Baby Run!