Long the bards of downward mobility, Southern Culture on the Skids have always embodied a sleazy, raucous, good-natured, good-time take on the culture of the South. Recently described by Dwight Yoakam (in Filter) as "really on the outside, like Dick Dale meets Hank Thompson," SCOTS have mixed high and low culture for decades, endlessly touring, serving up moonshine martinis and poultry picking for fans everywhere. SCOTS' new album, The Kudzu Ranch, is named after the band's studio/hangout in rural NC where the songs were recorded. "The Kudzu Ranch is collection of 10 originals and a couple covers," Rick says, "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!"