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Southern Culture on the Skids Tour Dates and Upcoming Concerts
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On tour
Yes
Followers
54,528
Category
Americana, Countrypolitan, Garage Rock, Rock And Roll, Surf
Concerts
Aug
30
Tractor Tavern
Seattle
Tickets
Aug
31
Aladdin Theater
Portland
Tickets
Sep
19
The Southern Cafe and Music Hall
Charlottesville
Tickets
Sep
20
Rams Head On Stage
Annapolis
Tickets
Sep
21
Ardmore Music Hall
Ardmore
Tickets
Sep
22
Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn
Tickets
Sep
24
City Winery Boston
Boston
Tickets
Sep
25
3S Artspace
Portsmouth
Tickets
Sep
26
The Drake
Amherst
Tickets
Sep
27
Sellersville Theater
Sellersville
Tickets
Sep
28
The Broadberry
Richmond
Tickets
Oct
12
CAA Park
Catonsville
Tickets
Oct
23
Alex's Bar
Long Beach
Tickets
Oct
24
The Siren
Morro Bay
Tickets
Oct
25
Sweetwater Music Hall
Mill Valley
Tickets
Oct
26
Bottom Of the Hill
San Francisco
Tickets
Oct
27
Moe's Alley
Santa Cruz
Tickets
Oct
29
Zebulon
Los Angeles
Tickets
Oct
31
Rhythm Room
Phoenix
Tickets
Nov
01
191 Toole
Tucson
Tickets
Nov
02
Casbah
San Diego
Tickets
Nov
15
Charleston Pour House
Charleston
Tickets
Nov
16
Reggie's 42nd Street Tavern
Wilmington
Tickets
Dec
06
Radio Room
Greenville
Tickets
Dec
07
The Grey Eagle
Asheville
Tickets
Dec
13
Visulite Theatre
Charlotte
Tickets
Dec
14
Cat's Cradle
Carrboro
Tickets
About Southern Culture on the Skids
Southern Culture On The Skids has been spreading the rock and roll gospel since since they formed in Chapel Hill, NC in1983. Guitarist/singer Rick Miller, drummer Dave Hartman and bassist/singer/heartbreaker Mary Huff, play a greasy mix of surf, rockabilly, R&B and country-fried garage with a side of psych, all the while driving fans into ecstatic, sweat-drenched paroxysms of joy. It’s a musical gumbo Miller calls, “Americana from the wrong side of the tracks.” The band has been prolific and ubiquitous for over thirty years, touring everywhere from the North Carolina Prison System to Mt. Fuji, Japan and delivering what Rolling Stone calls “a hell raising rock and roll party.”
In 2014 the band was honored by the Southern Folk Life Collection at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with an exhibition featuring their music and cultural contributions. The flame-adorned La-Z-Boy from the cover of their Plastic Seat Sweat LP now resides at UNC-CH!
THE ELECTRIC PINECONES
Southern Culture On The Skids' newest album, The Electric Pinecones, will be released on September 16, 2016. It's the band’s fifth album on their own label, Kudzu Records. The album features 12 original SCOTS tunes — 11 brand new songs and a whole-lotta NOLA remake of the SCOTS classic, “Swamp Fox - The Original.” All the tunes were produced and recorded at Rick’s studio in NC, The Kudzu Ranch.
The Electric Pinecones is a bit of a departure for the band conceptually and sonically. The inspiration for the record was born in an alter-ego side project from the early years of the band. “The Pinecones was folk-a-hill-a-billy garage band we used to put together just for kicks,” Miller relates. “We loved the sound of '60s west coast folk rock and psych bands. The Pinecones was our outlet for material that was not in the SCOTS vein. We even opened for ourselves occasionally. The Pinecones set list was the jumping off point for this latest collection of songs.”
The first single off the album, “Grey Skies,” is a minor key mood piece with that folk-a-billy, psychedelic sound. Listen to how the acoustic 12-string riff slides into the band’s hypnotic rhythms that propel Mary Huff’s reflective vocal into the mind’s eye of times past and love lost. “Check out the Mellotron on the chorus – that is a first for us,” Miller says.
The lead off track, “Freak Flag,” is more upbeat, but no less tweaked, with modulating guitars riding on pounding drums after the first verse. The song’s message is a good one – it is okay to be different and always respect yourself. The band debuted the song to an auditorium full of rowdy students at Carrboro Elementary School. “I was nervous,” Miller says “if the kids don’t like something they let you know, but when they started singing along with the second chorus and waving their imaginary freak flags in the air, I knew it was a hit!”
“Dirt Road” is Mary’s three-minute ode to séances, thunderstorms and good lovin’ long gone. The song is a backwoods southern gothic ghost story that opens with a big tom fill then twists and turns around a folky strum and a fuzz guitar. Mary’s spooky-good vocal takes it down that dirt road way back into the piney woods.
The album also has some country rock songs that highlight the melodic side of SCOTS, with “Baby I Like You,” “I Ain’t Gonna Hang Around” and “Given To Me” featuring some of the best harmonies Rick and Mary have ever recorded.
“Waiting On You” is the longest song on the album, coming in at 4:22; it’s a folk-garage-rocker with a sing-a-long chorus that segues into a surf raga breakdown before heading back to the big riff and out.
The album has traditional Southern Culture flavor too. Check out the remake of “Swamp Fox – The Original”. This take goes back to the beginnings of the song and is much closer to capturing the essence of the many all-nighters the band pulled in NOLA with friends and colleagues. The country funk of “Rice and Beans,” is a good humored tale of a cash strapped southern courtship, and “Midnight Caller” is Mary’s slinky R’n’B flavored woman-to-woman warning about bad men looking for good times.
Song for song, on The Electric Pinecones, Southern Culture On The Skids continues to blow minds and blur the lines between genres delivering a stellar album. From their 1985 debut Voodoo Beach Party, to their 1988 international smash, Dirt Track Date (featuring the hit single "Camel Walk"), and now to the SCOTS-ified tunes of The Electric Pinecones, 30+ years, 200+ songs and 1,000,000+ road miles in, Southern Culture On The Skids just continues to get better with time.
Discography
1985 - Voodoo Beach Party (EP) - Lloyd Street Records
1985 - First Album (album) - Lloyd Street Records
1990 - "Clyde’s Lament”/"CW James, 00 Spy" (single) - Moist Music
1991 - Too Much Pork For Just One Fork (album) - Moist Music
1991 - "Come and Get It" (single) - Giant Claw
1992 - Santo! Sings (7” EP) - Zontar Records
1992 - For Lovers Only (album) - Safe House/Plan 9
1993 - Peckin’ Party (EP) - Safe House/ Feedbag Records
1993 - Girlfight (EP) - Sympathy For The Record Industry
1993 - "Tantrum" ( With Don Howland, 7", Single) - Sympathy For The Record Industry
1993 - "Gossip And Rumours" (with The A-Bones, 7", Ltd) - Baylor Records
1993 - "Nakema" (With Don Howland, 7", Single) - Sympathy For The Record Industry
1994 - "White Trash" (7”) - Demolition Derby
1994 - "Cockroach Blues "(With Don Howland, 7", Single) - Sympathy For The Record Industry
1994 - "The Wedding Bell Twist" (7” single) - Telstar
1994 - "Moonshine Martinis" on The Estrus Cocktail Companion (6 7” box set, various artists) - Estrus Records
1994 - Ditch Diggin’ (album) - Safe House
1995 - "Hell Blues" (With Don Howland 7", Single) - Sympathy For The Record Industry
1995 - “Venus” on Star Power (various artists compilation) - Pravda
1995 - Dirt Track Date (album) - DGC/Geffen
1995 - "Camel Walk" (CD single) - DGC/Geffen
1996 - "White Trash”/“BSA441”/"Two Pigs In A Blanket" (7” single) - One Louder
1996 - Santo Swings (EP) - Estrus
1997 - "Tidewater Jack" (7” single w/ The Untamed Youth) - Gearhead Records
1997 - "Soul City" (CD single) - Geffen
1997 - "House of Bamboo" (CD single) - DGC
1997 - Plastic Seat Sweat (album) - Geffen
1998 - Zombified (CD EP) - import
1998 - Halloween Hootenanny (various artists compilation) - Zombie-a-Go-Go Records
1999 - Exposed Roots - The Best of Alt. Country (various artists compilation) K-Tel
2000 - Liquored Up and Laquered Down (album) TVT
2002 - Live At El Sol - Kudzu Records
2004 - Kudzu Records Presents Southern Culture On The Skids (3 7” single box set) - Kudzu Records
2004 - Mojo Box (album) - Yep Roc
2006 - Doublewide and Live (album, and deluxe edition) - Yep Roc
2007 - Countrypolitan Favorites (album) - Yep Roc
2009 - "Come As You Are”/"Lucifer Sam" (7” single w/ Los Straitjackets) - Spinout Records
2010 - The Kudzu Ranch (album) - Kudzu Records
2011 - Zombified (album, re-release w/ additional tracks) - Kudzu Records
2013 - Dig This (album) - Kudzu Records
2013 - Mondo Zombie Boogaloo (various artists compilation) - Yep Roc
2014 - Party At My Trouse (w/ Fred Schneider) (limited edition single) - Yep Roc
2015 - Party At My Trouse (w/ Fred Schneider) (12” dance remix EP) - Yep Roc
2016 - The Electric Pinecones (album) - Kudzu Records
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Genres
Americana, Countrypolitan, Garage Rock, Rock And Roll, Surf
Band members
MARY HUFF, DAVE HARTMAN, RICK MILLER
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What fans are saying
Brando
SPECTACULAR SHOW !!!
I've seen them all over the country for years and this was one of their greatest shows ! Obviously the pandemic and the two years of not touring came to a wonderful and combustible head. They were a nuclear explosion. 2 hours of hillbilly fireworks. And Zebulon is a fab and intimate venue with great sound.
5 out of 5 stars !!!
Zebulon
Los Angeles, CA
Jun 19, 2022
Darell
Band kicked ass as they always do, this was my 9th show and go as often as I can.
Disappointed that they blocked off the seating portion up front, some of us older folks need to rest our bones from time to time (last SKIDS show we were allowed to and I took advantage of that for half the show).
The Back Room @ Colectivo
Milwaukee, WI
Oct 13, 2022
Rick
Wow, so good to see Rick, Mary and Dave again in the Valley for a sold out show! The joint was jumping and SCOTS was feeding off the energy. I have been a fan of SCOTS since 1997 and have seen them in concert a bunch of times. Every show is a blast and they never disappoint.
Rhythm Room
Phoenix, AZ
Jun 25, 2023
T-Bone
SCOTS are the best! Great musicians, great people. I always have a blast at their shows. Sure hope this Wuhan flu fizzles out soon. Can’t wait to see Dave, Mary, & Rick doing what they do best. The vibe was great at the Harvester. SCOTS and Halloween = supernatural good time.
Harvester Performance Center
Rocky Mount, VA
Jun 08, 2020
Scott
I have been waiting for years to see SCOTS live. It was absolutely thrilling for my wife and me. The band was scorching hot, witty, and played plenty of favorites, as well as many great songs from their newest album. They have been one of my favorite bands for decades, and they really delivered.
Harlow's Restaurant & Nightclub
Sacramento, CA
Jun 21, 2022
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Southern Culture on the Skids Tour Cities
Boston, MA
Portsmouth, NH
Charleston, SC
Portland, OR
Richmond, VA
Charlotte, NC
Phoenix, AZ
Charlottesville, VA
Long Beach, CA
Tucson, AZ
Ardmore, PA
Seattle, WA
Wilmington, NC
Annapolis, MD
San Diego, CA
Sellersville, PA
Greenville, SC
San Francisco, CA
Asheville, NC
Catonsville, MD
Carrboro, NC
Santa Cruz, CA
Amherst, MA
Mill Valley, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn, NY
Morro Bay, CA
Frequently Asked Questions About Southern Culture on the Skids
Concerts & Tour Date Information
Is Southern Culture on the Skids on tour?
Yes, Southern Culture on the Skids is currently on tour. If you’re interested in attending an upcoming
Southern Culture on the Skids concert, make sure to grab your tickets in advance. The Southern Culture on the Skids tour
is scheduled for 27 dates across 27 cities. Get
information on all upcoming tour dates and tickets for 2024-2025 with Hypebot.
How many upcoming tour dates is Southern Culture on the Skids scheduled to play?
Southern Culture on the Skids is scheduled to play 27 shows between 2024-2025. Buy
concert tickets to a nearby show through Hypebot.
When does the Southern Culture on the Skids tour start?
Southern Culture on the Skids’s tour starts Aug 30, 2024 and ends on Dec 14, 2024.
They will play 27 cities; their most recent concert was held in
Seattle at Tractor Tavern and their next upcoming concert
will be in Portsmouth at 3S Artspace.
What venues is Southern Culture on the Skids performing at?
As part of the Southern Culture on the Skids tour, Southern Culture on the Skids is scheduled to play across the following
venues and cities:
2024 Tour Dates:
Aug 30 - Seattle,
WA @ Tractor Tavern
Aug 31 - Portland,
OR @ Aladdin Theater
Sep 19 - Charlottesville,
VA @ The Southern Cafe and Music Hall
Sep 20 - Annapolis,
MD @ Rams Head On Stage
Sep 21 - Ardmore,
PA @ Ardmore Music Hall
Sep 22 - Brooklyn,
NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sep 24 - Boston,
MA @ City Winery Boston
Sep 25 - Portsmouth,
NH @ 3S Artspace
Sep 26 - Amherst,
MA @ The Drake
Sep 27 - Sellersville,
PA @ Sellersville Theater
Sep 28 - Richmond,
VA @ The Broadberry
Oct 12 - Catonsville,
MD @ CAA Park
Oct 23 - Long Beach,
CA @ Alex's Bar
Oct 24 - Morro Bay,
CA @ The Siren
Oct 25 - Mill Valley,
CA @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Oct 26 - San Francisco,
CA @ Bottom Of the Hill
Oct 27 - Santa Cruz,
CA @ Moe's Alley
Oct 29 - Los Angeles,
CA @ Zebulon
Oct 31 - Phoenix,
AZ @ Rhythm Room
Nov 01 - Tucson,
AZ @ 191 Toole
Nov 02 - San Diego,
CA @ Casbah
Nov 15 - Charleston,
SC @ Charleston Pour House
Nov 16 - Wilmington,
NC @ Reggie's 42nd Street Tavern
Dec 06 - Greenville,
SC @ Radio Room
Dec 07 - Asheville,
NC @ The Grey Eagle
Dec 13 - Charlotte,
NC @ Visulite Theatre
Dec 14 - Carrboro,
NC @ Cat's Cradle