With Southern Culture on the Skids
True to their name, North Carolina’s Southern Culture on the Skids offers an affectionate parody of local trailer park culture, matching their skewed outlook with a wild, careening brand of rock & roll. Their music is a quintessentially Southern-fried amalgam of rockabilly, boogie, country, blues, swamp pop and chitlin circuit R&B, plus a liberal dose of California surf guitar, a hint of punk attitude and the occasional mariachi horns. Following an early incarnation as a relatively straightforward roots rock outfit, they morphed into a raucous, sleazy, tongue-in-cheek party band obsessed with sex and food; in fact, fried chicken became a crucial part of their live performances, whether it was used in eating contests or tossed into the audience.