Thursday 9/19 at The Southern Café and Music Hall
Southern Culture on the Skids has been banging around its campy country-surf rockabilly for decades, with trio Mary Huff (bass, vocals), Dave Hartman (drums), and Rick Miller (guitar, vocals) long outlasting the original four-piece that Miller co-founded in the mid-1980s in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Since then, SCOTS has put out no less than a dozen records and a gaggle of EPs, all smeared with a heavy dose of comedic retro-facing American trashiness.
The titles of set staples like “Voodoo Cadillac” and “Too Much Pork for Just One Fork” should let you know what you’re in for. If you dig the earlier discography of The Cramps and The B-52s, feast on “Hee Haw”-era country, but like both your music and lyrics to walk the line between bad taste and earning an NC-17 rating, this may be your soundtrack for fun.
Equally pervasive mainstays of the retro garage scene, The Woggles should set the party atmosphere in motion before SCOTS makes it to the stage. Led by well-known DJ persona of SiriusXM’s Little Steven’s Underground Garage, singer Mighty Manfred keeps the ‘60s rock ’n’ roll vibes appropriately stitched together, yet the group’s newest full-length Time Has Come chugs through a thoroughly modern production that feels decidedly more streamlined rock than old-school murk. However those results translate live, an upbeat show is guaranteed.