Jon Chattman was at the 5th Annual Savannah Stopover Music Festival March 5-7, 2015 captured this exclusive performance of Freak Flag for The HuffPo and A-Sides Jon Chattman. Ths was filmed at the Stopover Artists' Lounge.

Check out Mary (as Loretta) & Dave (as Conway Twitty) doing "As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone" in the "Hey Loretta Hillbilly Hoedown & Pie Social" at the Continental Club in April 2012 in Austin TX (benefiting the SIMS Foundation). The show featured pretty much every honky tonk gal in Austin singin' Loretta songs and bringin' pie! Mary & Dave got up and did "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone", then Mary did "Blue Kentucky Girl". And Mary won Marti Brom's incredible cherry pie in the pie auction! SCOTS followed this Monday night with a week of shows at the Continental Club. Wow, Austin knows how to throw a shindig!

Check Out SCOTS performing "Zombified" at the Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh, NC, Halloween 2009

Wow!! SCOTS primo amigo Fred Kirckhoff made a music video for "It's the Music that Makes Me"!!! He went so far as to create a turntable made up of cement mixer parts and air raid siren parts from 3 Mile Island! Note that no teens were harmed in the making of this video! Li'l Mary is played by Olivia and li'l Rick is played by MacKenzie! Meghan and Brittany are on drums and guitar, respectively. This is 100% BAD ASS!!!

This is from Sleazefest '94 — the hottest, sweatiest, greasiest, raunchiest music fest around. It took place in the dawg days of August at the Local 506 in Chapel Hill, NC. Southern Culture On The Skids invited Hasil Adkins, the hillbilly wild man, up to perform his signature song, "Hubcap Hunch".

SCOTS Live at the 1997 Mt Fuji Rock Festival doing "Greenback Fly" in front of a huge crowd of adoring fans.

The original band edit video for "Camel Walk" without the movie clips from "Flirting With Disaster".

Rare early SCOTS video for "Roadside Wreck" now available for your viewing pleasure!

SCOTS performs an acoustic version of "My House Has Wheels" on a rare webisode of Backstage @ Tennessee Shines

Zombified, Southern Culture On The Skids’ tribute to the horror and exploitation movies that populated Southern theaters and drive-ins during the 60s and 70s, is out now on Kudzu Records. Originally released in Australia as an eight song EP in 1998, the Zombified Extended Release is now a full LP with the addition of five new tunes, and will receive its first U.S. release September 27. It's available for now at SCOTS.com.

The new and improved Zombified has been re-mastered and re-packaged with cover art by Sean Starwars and design by Yee Haw industries. Rick Miller, guitarist and singer for the band said, “you know, the Zombified EP never had a proper U.S. release and the band is excited about it happening now as a full album.” The album is available in all formats, CD, digital download and LP. The LP is a limited edition of 1000 on blood red vinyl complete with CD inside! Zombified will be for sale this September in record stores, web stores and at scots.com.

"I was always attracted to low budget DIY films," said Miller. "Maybe it was the lurid posters and newspaper ads that sucked me in as a kid. Later, I got into the directors, like Mario Bava, Hershell Gordon Lewis and George Romero, to name just a few. They made some entertaining and pretty disturbing movies from way outside the mainstream. A big influence on my approach to making music!"

The band’s music is no stranger to horror/exploitation films. Previous SCOTS songs can be found in soundtracks like the Spanish psycho classic "Perdita Durango," directed by Alex de la Iglesia and starring future Academy Award winner Javier Bardem. In the teen screamer "I Know What You Did Last Summer" the band makes an on screen appearance playing "My Baby's Got The Strangest Ways." SCOTS also supplied the soundtrack to "Blood Feast II, Buffet of Blood," the sequel to HGL's original gore epic.

Click below for a song-by-song preview of the coming attractions.

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“Zombified” - a garage rocker with some psychedelic overtones about a mate being more “Dead than Alive”. Is the singer’s girl overworked or just dead – YOU BE THE JUDGE!

“Undertaker” - a minor key twister about “feelin’ six feet underground” and getting some “Love that goes beyond the grave”.

“Swamp Thang” – Time to boogie in the mud with this “monster” instrumental.

“She’s My Witch” – This creepy rockabilly version of Kip Tyler’s ode to a coven of juvenile delinquents is going to put a spell on you. Move over Eagles this is the original “Witchy Woman”!

“Bloodsucker” – SCOTS infuse a Caribbean groove to this tale of a greedy vampire. Rick say’s “this one is going to stick to you like a tick”!

“Sinister Purpose” – Booker T and the MG’s meet CCR on this instro workout. Featuring Cousin Crispy Bess on the big B3.

“Torture” – J.D. Loudermilk’s teen lament gets the Mausoleum treatment by Mary Huff. This song asks the eternal question, “How can it feel so good to hurt so bad?”

“The Devil's Stomping Ground” – Local folklore has it that the Devil comes up to the woods of Chatham Co. NC every once in a while to ponder and plan his misdeeds. On the circular path he treads nothing grows and if you put a rock in his way you will find it moved the next day. SCOTS put the “rock” in the song and it seems to have stuck. Rick comments, “I wonder if Satan plays a Les Paul thru a fuzz pedal?”

“Bat’s Are Sleeping” – Young Jack Miller sings his favorite Halloween song accompanied by a swarm of cicadas. “This is the albums “SHINING” moment”, Says his dad.

“Idol With The Glowin’ Eyes” – This hypnotic number was originally written for the grade Z gore-fest “Blood Feast 2, Buffet of Blood”. But this song never got past the salad bar cause the band missed the “DEAD”line.

“The Creeper” – a fuzzed out instrumental from the Link Wray school of guitar demolition, aka “Strolling’ Thru The Graveyard”.

“Eyeball You Later” – A rocker addressing the strange attractions that can live in the back alleys and shadows of your heart! YOW!

“Primitive” – Last song on the album is the undying Groupies classic, dug up by SCOTS and presented for your listening pleasure in the psycho-delic style.

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Southern Culture On The Skids has been entertaining folks with their brand of "Americana from the wrong side of the tracks" since 1983. The band combines the sounds of rock and roll, surf, country western, R&B, easy listening, etc. with their DIY ethic and backwoods obsessions to create a unique and irreverent musical hybrid.

Be sure to check out the TOUR DATES page and catch SCOTS on the road!

—The new SCOTS album "THE KUDZU RANCH", a collection of 12 new tunes recorded at the one and only Kudzu Ranch Recorders in Alamance Co. NC is out now!

Track listing:

1. Bone Dry Dirt
2. It's the Music that Makes Me
3. Pig Pickin'
4. Highlife
5. Slinky Spring Milt
6. Montague's Mystery Theme
7. Are You Ready for the Country
8. My Neighbor Burns Trash
9. Bad Boys
10. Come As You Are/Lucifer Sam
11. Busy Road
12. Jack's Tune

"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!" Look for it now in all formats - download, CD and LP!!!

Kudzu Records is proud to announce the reissue of Too Much Pork For Just One Fork (TMP). The long out of print album by Southern Culture on the Skids has been re-mastered and is available as a download and a CD. The CD has original artwork by Rick and photos by D. Kent Thompson. TMP is available here at SCOTS.com in the coming weeks so keep checking the web site for details.

Here are a few words from Rick about the record and some of the folks who helped make it happen...

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The majority of songs from Too Much Pork For Just One Fork (TMP) were recorded at Lloyd St Studios, a local rehearsal room and recording studio in Carrboro N.C. Caleb Southern was the engineer. Rumor had it that Caleb had the biggest (and the best) microphone in town – he did, and his dad, Dave, did the layout and design for the album. Dave Southern was a trip – an old hipster he lived in a house filled with vintage printing presses and old records. He was the guru of arcane musical knowledge and an encyclopedia on the blues and R&B. The band spent a lot of time at Dave’s place listening to music and his stories about the NC Chittlin' Circuit. The photos on TMP where taken by D. Kent Thompson. Kent was photo student from Charlotte who I met at the “World Famous Milestone Club”. Now The Milestone Club was really just a dilapidated house in a funky working-class neighborhood in Charlotte. It had a gutted-by-fire look inside. The walls inside were painted black and covered with graffiti. It was run by an older guy, a Vietnam Veteran by the name of Bill Flowers. Bill was something else – he always looked like he just crawled out of a sleeping bag somewhere. I remember him once telling an opening band that their sound check included taking his shopping cart to a nearby grocery store to buy some cheap beer to stock the bar with – it might have been us now that I think about it.

The Milestone was one of a few clubs in NC where bands could get on a stage and play original music and Kent had his lens on the scene. He photographed the bands, the fans, and the glam each week and would have prints for sale on the bar wall the next. We got talking one night after a show and discovered we were both fans of the Fugs. It was pretty hard to find Fug fans in NC so we stayed in touch. Kent started to hang with the band more and more and did road trips with us – shooting film the whole time. Kent had so many great photos of the band that when it came time to pick out some for the TMP booklet we had an editing crisis and ended up putting in way too many. I think Dave Southern gave it the nickname "Too Much Booklet For Just One Jewel Case".

I wrote most of the songs for the album in the Spring and Summer of 1989-1990, living with the band in a vine-covered house in the woods. It was the original Kudzu Ranch. Having no A/C we started rehearsing in the basement where it was cool. The basement had a dirt floor and no electricity so, we ran an extension cord down the stairs and started makin’ noise. We worked in the basement 'til the invasion of the roly poly bugs. It was a very strange event. One night there were thousands of the bugs – they just showed up. They seemed to be mating. Dave could suck up a shop vac full of bugs every couple days and they just kept coming back. There got to be so many of those hard shelled bugs on the ground it sounded like we were walking on potato chips when we practiced. It got so disturbing we had to move rehearsal upstairs to the living room and sweat it out for the rest of the summer.

The last five songs on TMP were recorded at the Kudzu Ranch by our soundman at the time Dave Schmidt. We stuck him down stairs with the bugs, a cassette deck and an old PA mixer that hummed and buzzed louder than the mating insects on the floor. (That is the noise you hear at the start and end of last five songs. We could have tried to fix it when we re-mastered but we wanted the fans to experience all the aural odors of the original.) Recorded live, direct-to-cassette these five songs were the very first real recordings of Dave, Mary and me as a band.

TMP came out on a local label called Moist Records. They released albums by other local bands like the Sex Police and Metal Flake Mother. Moist did a good job promoting the local scene – but they ended up going bust trying to bankroll some bigger bands on a national level. We bought our masters for TMP back for 1,000 bucks when the label folded.

Over the last 19 years many people have asked us when we would reissue Too Much Pork For Just One Fork. Original copies of TMP are very hard to find – folks that have it either bought it new, paid way too much on eBay or got it for less than a dollar at a garage sale. Its scarcity helped establish TMP as a “collectors” item and I have heard a few folks call it our “lost masterpiece”. That it is not – but TMP is important record for few reasons. It was SCOTS' first record featuring the still current line-up of Dave Hartman, Mary Huff and myself and the album charted our musical and stylistic course for years to follow. TMP has the original versions of our most popular songs – songs that we still play today and best of all TMP is fun to listen to. Glad to say it is back on the menu.