(Blurt Online) Back at the Kudzu Ranch recording enclave, Tarheel twang merchants Southern Culture On The Skids recently put the finishing touches on their new album. It’s titled, fittingly, The Kudzu Ranch, and it’s issued on their own Kudzu label following a three-album run with the venerable Yep Roc which concluded with 2007’s Countrypolitan Favorites.
“The Kudzu Ranch is collection of 10 originals and a couple covers,” said guitarist Rick Miller recently, “songs about people, places and things – like good friends and crazy neighbors, dry dirt and pompadoured flirts, busy roads and horny toads – all of them motivatin’, salivatin’ and procreatin’ to their own crazy beat!”
It arrives next week, Sept. 7, via their official website, www.scots.com, and will eventually be available at retail in early November. Folks who do pick it up directly from the band will also nab some fun digital freebies, so you have been advised. Meanwhile, the band heads out for a 3-week trek out west starting this week (the second leg of their tour will commence in mid October).
Southern Culture On The Skids Tour Dates:
Fri 9/3 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
Sat 9/4 Ventura, CA Ventura Fairgrounds
Sun 9/5 Lockwood, CA Hungry Flats Diner
Tue 9/7 San Jose, CA The Blank Club
Wed 9/8 Petaluma, CA McNears Mystic Theatre
Thu 9/9 Santa Cruz, CA Moe’s Alley
Fri 9/10 Crystal Bay, NV Crystal Bay Club Crown Room
Sat 9/11 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Sun 9/12 Bakersfield, CA Fishlips
Wed 9/15 Tucson, AZ Plush
Thu 9/16 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room
Sat 9/18 San Diego, CA Casbah
Fri 10/8 Richmond, Va Plaza Duckpin Bowl
Sat 10/9 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Sun 10/10 Harrisburg, PA The Abbey Bar
Tue 10/12 Marietta, OH The Adelphia (at the Galley)
Wed 10/13 Pittsburgh, PA Diesel Club
Thu 10/14 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live
Fri 10/15 Brooklyn, NY The Bell House
Sat 10/16 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
Fri 10/29 Johnson City, TN Casbah
Sat 10/30 Buford, GA Hell On Wheels Beer Festival
Sun 10/31 Birmingham, AL Zydeco
Fri 11/26 Kill Devil Hills, NC Port O’ Call
Sat 11/27 Kill Devil Hills, NC Port O’ Call
