Southern Culture On The Skids - Dirt Track Date (Album Version) '1995

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Voodoo Cadillac (Album Version)
02. Soul City (Album Version)
03. Greenback Fly (Album Version)
04. Skullbucket (Album Version)
05. Camel Walk (Album Version)
06. White Trash (Album Version)
07. Firefly (Album Version)
08. Make Mayan A Hawaiian (Album Version)
09. Fried Chicken And Gasoline (Album Version)
10. Nitty Gritty (Album Version)
11. 8 Piece Box (Album Version)
12. Galley Slave (Album Version)
13. Whole Lotta Things (Album Version)
14. Dirt Track Date (Album Version)

After spending the first half of the 1990s as one of America's hardest-working
independent bands, Southern Culture on the Skids took the bait and signed with a
major label in 1995, releasing its fifth album, Dirt Track Date, on Geffen/DGC
that year. Dirt Track Date proved to be something of a disappointment for the
group's hardcore fans; nearly half the album's songs had appeared on previous
SCOTS releases ("Eight Piece Box" hit plastic for the third time on this set),
and while producer Mark Williams was sympathetic to the band's approach, the
slightly grittier, more homemade sound of For Lovers Only and Ditch Diggin'
better suited the band's Dixie-fried guitar textures than Williams' tidier
approach. But while Williams cleaned up the band's sound a bit, he didn't rob
Rick Miller's hot-rodded guitar of its power to shake the house, and if the set
list is familiar to old fans, it makes for an excellent "Greatest Hits" set,
with the chicken-scratch R&B of "Soul City," the faux-exotica of "Galley Slave,"
and the slow-turning dance groove of "Camel Walk" offering rockin' proof that
there was a lot more to this band than hillbilly jokes. For Lovers Only is
probably Southern Culture on the Skids' best album, but Dirt Track Date may well
be the best place for first-time listeners to investigate the band's
enchantingly warped take on American roots rock.



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