Southern Culture On The Skids - The Electric Pinecones (2016)

Southern Culture On The Skids new studio album, The Electric Pinecones, will be released September 16th on the band's own imprint, Kudzu Records. Featuring a dozen original tunes - 11 brand new songs and a whole-lotta NOLA remake of the SCOTS classic, "Swamp Fox", the record will be available on CD and as a digital download. A limited edition green translucent vinyl LP will be available in November 2016. "The Pinecones was our folk-a-billy garage band alter ego," singer-guitarist Rick Miller explains. "In the late '80s and early '90s, we would occasionally open up for ourselves as The Pinecones. What we played was not your typical SCOTS fare; more '60s west coast psych, folk and country. Those old set lists became the starting point for this record, The Electric Pinecones." The first single off the album, "Grey Skies," is a minor key mood piece with that folk-a-hill-a-billy psychedelic sound. Listen to how the acoustic 12-string riff slides into the band's hypnotic rhythms that propel Mary Huff's vocal into the mind's eye of times past and love lost. Thirty plus years, two hundred plus songs and a million plus road miles in, Southern Culture On The Skids continues to blur the lines between genres and once again delivers a stellar album.