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Southern Culture On The Skids

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11.30.2007
Stephen King ranks Southern Culture's Countrypolitan Favorites as his #5 best album of 2007!
06.14.2007
The winner of the SCOTS Countrypolitan Karaoke Contest is Action Slim Jackson with his video for Wolverton Mountain! Click here to watch his very...
05.04.2007
SCOTS have always been able to put their own distinctly greasy touch on well-chosen cover songs from Leon Bass' "Love-a-Rama" to the Louvin Brothers...
04.25.2007
On 4/24 the BBC/PRI program The World aired a piece on the song "Muswell Hillbilly" featuring an interview with Rick Miller. Listen to it in segments...
03.15.2007
The new rent-party platter by Southern Culture on the Skids, Countrypolitan Favorites (Yep Roc), is nothing but other folks' songs. Most are nothing...
03.14.2007
For pretty much the entirety of its two decades together, Southern Culture on the Skids has positioned itself as shameless champions of everything...
03.14.2007
But for album credits, the only clue that any tune on any of Southern Culture on the Skids dozen-ish discs in an original is a food reference...
02.23.2007
The countrypolitan sound came out of Nashville in the '50s as a (mighty successful) bid to give country music some crossover appeal by stripping it...
02.23.2007
Shania Twain and Faith Hill weren't the first country stars to give the genre a slick, urban makeover. More than 40 years ago, a host of Nashville...
02.15.2007
SCOTS, as the band is known to fans, has never worried all that much about transcending its devout cult. In fact, the trio has built a career on that...
02.15.2007
Southern Culture On The Skids - Countrypolitan Favorites will be featured as CD Of The Week all week long beginning 2/19 on WMNF in Tampa, FL. ...
02.09.2007
We actually tried to work up "Tobacco Road" several times in the Kudzu Ranch days. Back around '89 or '90 we'd have to play these incredibly long...
02.09.2007
I really like all the tunes - but I think, far as concept goes, "Life's a Gas" is really great - to take that song and approach the vocal like a...
02.02.2007
What a blast! Applying garage-band urgency to a selection of material that extends well beyond countrypolitan favorites, the freewheeling SCOTS...
01.30.2007
Few would have predicted, back in their mid-'80s salad days, that Southern Culture on the Skids would turn out to be the elder statesmen of Triangle...