{"id":3724,"date":"2007-03-31T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2009-11-14T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T21:19:36","slug":"southern-culture-on-the-skids-rocks-austin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2007\/03\/31\/southern-culture-on-the-skids-rocks-austin-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Culture on the Skids rocks Austin again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bringing down the house with \u201cBanana Pudding\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

My favorite band from Chapel Hill, NC returned this week for another awesome five-night run at Austin\u2019s Continental Club (which I will need to do an Austintatious story on, promised that last year). Admittedly, I attended the opening show on Tuesday night\/Wednesday morning but I have been running the last several days on very little sleep and now I can finally give a more elaborate account of the show. Since they\u2019re playing until Saturday, I am still within my own self-declared deadline of when a story is still topical for\u00a0Picayune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As always, people ask, \u201cWhat are Southern Culture on the Skids like?\u201d After listening to them for over a decade, I would say the fastest and easiest answer to give most people is this: The B-52\u2019s redneck cousins. I personally think people also ask because they don\u2019t know much about all the different musical genres\/styles. The other problem lately is when a band has a name that reads as a phrase, it\u2019s assumed to be either Emo (My Chemical Romance, Cute is What We Aim For) or Nu-Metal (As I Lay Dying, Lamb of God).<\/p>\n

Background and explanations complete, on to the show. The opener was an interesting local Funk act called Barfield. They definitely got the crowd energized for SCOTS at midnight. When Rick, Dave and Mary hit the stage, everyone was definitely good and rowdy as the trio kicked off with their instrumental \u201cSkullbucket.\u201d There were the usual favorites too: \u201c69 El Camino,\u201d \u201cLiquored up, Lacquered down,\u201d \u201cCamel Walk,\u201d \u201cDaddy was a Preacher, Mama was a Go-Go Girl,\u201d \u201cThe House of Bamboo,\u201d \u201cNitty Gritty,\u201d \u201cThe Wet Spot,\u201d and \u201cCarolina Chickenshit Farmer.\u201d Due the hot rod show coming to Austin at the end of the week, they pulled out most of their car-themed songs and more instrumentals. They did a few songs from the new album\u00a0Countrypolitan Favorites<\/em>, namely my current stream favorite \u201cFight Fire,\u201d and the very fitting covers of \u201cTobacco Road\u201d and \u201cMuswell Hillbilly.\u201d No SCOTS show is ever complete without \u201cBanana Pudding.\u201d Sadly no \u201cBiscuit Eater\u201d or \u201cEight Piece Box,\u201d but their catalog is so large and they\u2019re such nice people in person, it didn\u2019t ruin the show. For the encore they did this great instrumental accompanied by the Continental Club\u2019s waitress as their go-go dancer. The lady definitely had some moves and at 6\u2019 3\u201d (she had no problem answering) she was an even greater presence on the stage. There was this one part when she\u2019d lean so far back you\u2019d think it was a limbo contest.<\/p>\n

I got to talk to Rick after the show to see how he was doing, how was his son and how I loved the usage of him giggling on their recent cover of the Who\u2019s \u201cHappy Jack.\u201d Surprisingly, he remembered me from the show last year. We talked a bit about his Apple equipment and his upgrade to 10.4 since there\u2019s finally an LE version of ProTools, still the first choice of rock stars everywhere. When I told him how I found the school photos included in the new record a hoot, he explained that they had the album cover and all related pictures taken at their neighborhood Wal-Mart. I thought he was kidding. The pictures are too well done in my opinion. Then everyone was laughing when he said the band bought the Deluxe Package which included the jigsaw puzzle they were selling at the t-shirt stand. I can\u2019t emphasize enough on seeing SCOTS live, you will have a good time, even if you don\u2019t know the bulk of their material.<\/p>\n

In their honor, I plan on going with them as the inaugural entry for a new category I have been putting off call Brushes with Greatness<\/em>. Mary and Rick were great sports in having my picture taken with them as you\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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