Track Listing 1. Voodoo Cadillac 2. Soul City 3. Greenback Fly 4. Skullbucket 5. Camel Walk 6. White Trash 7. Firefly 8. Make Mayan a Hawaiian 9. Fried Chicken and Gasoline 10. Nitty Gritty 11. 8 Piece Box 12. Galley Slave 13. Whole Lotta Things 14. Dirt Track Date
| Details | | Distributor: | Fontana Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Southern Culture On The Skids: Rick Miller (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Mary Huff (vocals, bass, organ, handclaps); David Hartman (vocals, drums, maracas, percussion). Additional personnel: Michael Lipton (lap steel guitar); Soul City Singers (background vocals). Producers: Mark Williams, Southern Culture On The Skids. Recorded at Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, North Carolina. For its second major-label release, 1995's DIRT TRACK DATE, the brilliantly named trio sticks to its knitting, maintaining the high-octane mix of raucous rockabilly, R&B, and punk influences that made albums like 1994's DITCH DIGGIN' so exciting. On the scorching title track and on such unapologetic anthems as "White Trash," "Fried Chicken And Gasoline," and "Eight-Piece Box," Southern Culture on the Skids singer/guitarist Rick Miller's songs continue to examine the subtleties of rural Southern culture. In other hands, these lyrical preoccupations might seem like heavy-handed satire or mean-spirited attacks. But Miller, bassist/organist Mary Huff, and drummer David Hartman-most assuredly not the former GOOD MORNING AMERICA host-obviously know and respect the region and its people. The songs are humorous celebrations of, as the band name suggests, a vanishing culture. More importantly, this album smokes.
Editorial Reviews ...here is a neat little rockabilly outfit, who know more than a tad about the history of the genre....they have a lot more in common with the Blasters than the Beverly Hillbillies....They know their way 'round a good twang, and Rick Miller can hit a whammy bar with the best of them... Alternative Press (12/01/1995)
[W]hen it comes to the music, this band is as deadly as a switchblade. Magnet
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