Southern Culture on the Skids

Dirt Track Date

Southern Culture on the Skids - Dirt Track Date

01/01/1996 | Fontana Geffen 

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All Music Guide Review

After spending the first half of the 1990s as one of America's hardest-working independent bands, Southern Culture on the Skids took the bait and signed with a major label in 1995, releasing its fifth album, Dirt Track Date, on Geffen/DGC that year. Dirt Track Date proved to be something of a disappointment for the group's hardcore fans; nearly half the album's songs had appeared on previous SCOTS releases ("Eight Piece Box" hit plastic for the third time on this set), and while producer Mark Williams was sympathetic to the band's approach, the slightly grittier, more homemade sound of For Lovers Only and Ditch Diggin' better suited the band's Dixie-fried guitar textures than Williams' tidier approach. But while Williams cleaned up the band's sound a bit, he didn't rob Rick Miller's hot-rodded guitar of its power to shake the house, and if the set list is familiar to old fans, it makes for an excellent "Greatest Hits" set, with the chicken-scratch R&B of "Soul City," the faux-exotica of "Galley Slave," and the slow-turning dance groove of "Camel Walk" offering rockin' proof that there was a lot more to this band than hillbilly jokes. For Lovers Only is probably Southern Culture on the Skids' best album, but Dirt Track Date may well be the best place for first-time listeners to investigate the band's enchantingly warped take on American roots rock. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Dirt Track Date Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Voodoo Cadillac
  • 4:39
  • Sound Clip for Voodoo Cadillac from Dirt Track Date


  • 2
  • Soul City
  • 2:35
  • Sound Clip for Soul City from Dirt Track Date


  • 3
  • Greenback Fly
  • 3:47
  • Sound Clip for Greenback Fly from Dirt Track Date


  • 4
  • Skullbucket
  • 2:40
  • Sound Clip for Skullbucket from Dirt Track Date


  • 5
  • Camel Walk
  • 2:36
  • Sound Clip for Camel Walk from Dirt Track Date


  • 6
  • White Trash
  • 2:03
  • Sound Clip for White Trash from Dirt Track Date


  • 7
  • Firefly
  • 3:23
  • Sound Clip for Firefly from Dirt Track Date


  • 8
  • Make Mayan a Hawaiian
  • 2:24
  • Sound Clip for Make Mayan a Hawaiian from Dirt Track Date


  • 9
  • Fried Chicken and Gasoline
  • 4:17
  • Sound Clip for Fried Chicken and Gasoline from Dirt Track Date


  • 10
  • Nitty Gritty
  • 2:30
  • Sound Clip for Nitty Gritty from Dirt Track Date


  • 11
  • Eight Piece Box
  • 4:02
  • Sound Clip for Eight Piece Box from Dirt Track Date


  • 12
  • Galley Slave
  • 3:00
  • Sound Clip for Galley Slave from Dirt Track Date


  • 13
  • Whole Lotta Things
  • 2:29
  • Sound Clip for Whole Lotta Things from Dirt Track Date


  • 14
  • Dirt Track Date
  • 8:38
  • Sound Clip for Dirt Track Date from Dirt Track Date


    • Credits of Dirt Track Date

    • Mary Huff
    • Organ, Vocals, Bass, Handclapping

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