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Southern Culture On The Skids

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Countrypolitan Favorites a "Fricke's Pck" in Rolling Stone

The new rent-party platter by Southern Culture on the Skids, Countrypolitan Favorites (Yep Roc), is nothing but other folks' songs. Most are nothing like you'd expect. The Kinks' "Muswell Hillbilly" is decked out in authentic rockabilly twang and the garage-rock organ from "96 Tears." Rather than emphasize the country modernism in the Byrds' "Have You Seen Her Face," Rick Miller's dirty-tremolo guitars sound like he pinched them from the Blues Magoos. There is much quality honky-tonkin' (including covers of Lynn Anderson and Onie Wheeler), but the extreme change-ups - like the cow-pie grenade the Skids make from John Fogerty's "Fight Fire" - are clear favorites.