period Bess departed and Miller oversaw development of the bands' own recording studio, named The Kudzu Ranch. 2002 saw the release of SCOTS’ first live album, at least an ‘official’ release amongst several bootlegs. Live at El Sol, on their own Kudzu Records label, featured 16 tracks recorded at shows in Madrid, Spain in 1997. SCOTS next album, a 2004 release on North Carolina's Yep Roc Records, was entitled Mojo Box and was recorded and produced by Miller at the Kudzu Ranch. Mojo Box featured typical songs about trailer parks (‘Doublewide’), muscle cars (‘’69 El Camino’) and Miller's love of surf rock (‘The Wet Spot’) plus versions of Jody Reynolds’ rockabilly classic ‘Fire of Love’ (featuring Bess on keyboards) and The Creations’ ‘Biff Bang Pow’. A second live release followed in 2006, Doublewide and Live, plus a deluxe edition with an extra three songs. The recording was made in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Local 506 in Chapel Hill. The band then surprised a little with 2007's Countrypolitan Favourites, an album of diverse cover songs which mixed country standards including ‘Oh Lonesome Me’ and ‘Tobacco Road’ with versions of tunes by T-Rex, The Kinks and The Byrds. SCOTS took a break from touring and recording in 2008 following the birth of Miller's son, but were soon back on the road with toddler in tow and guitarist Tim Barnes supplementing their live sound. Increasingly, SCOTS took to releasing material, merchandise and promoting shows through their website, rather than relying on record companies or other intermediaries. Album The Kudzu Ranch, released in 2010 on Kudzu Records (as would all future albums), represented the first original recorded material from SCOTS in six years. But it allayed any thought the band had lost their mojo with tracks like ‘Pig Pickin’’, ‘Bone Dry Dirt’ and ‘My Neighbor Burns Trash’ alongside an imaginative Nirvana/Pink Floyd mashup (‘Come As You Are/’Lucifer Sam’). The previous albums Too Much Pork… and Zombified were re-released in 2011, the latter with 5 bonus tracks, as new, younger fans searched for SCOTS’ earlier recorded material, much of which had either been deleted by now-defunct record labels or lost in the Universal fire. Perhaps to this end, SCOTS re-recorded the songs from 1994 album Ditch Diggin’ in 2013, released as Dig This! (Ditch Diggin’ Vol. 2), with modest variations on the original songs and without the two cover versions. Miller claimed the