recording was inspired by having to dig out the Kudzu Ranch's blocked drains. In their earlier days, SCOTS occasionally performed as their own opening act under the name The Pinecones, playing songs inspired by 1960s country-rock and psychedelia typical of artists like Gram Parsons, The Byrds, The Seeds and The Chocolate Watchband (amongst others). This led to SCOTS’ 2016 album The Electric Pinecones, which mixed original songs in this style (‘Grey Skies’, ‘I Aint Gonna Hang Around’) together with more typical SCOTS songs (‘Swamp Fox’, ‘Rice and Beans’). More than anything, the record exemplified Miller, Huff and Hartman's musicianship and versatility. Following on from the Dig This album, and the demise of DGC Records, SCOTS released Bootlegger’s Choice in 2018, featuring new recordings of 15 songs from DGC albums Dirt Track Date and Plastic Seat Sweat, plus a remastered version of the original ‘Camel Walk’. Continuing in this vein, 2020 saw a re-release of the very rare 2003 Kudzu Records Presents, a collection of six songs focussed on NOLA artists including Jessie Hill and Smiley Lewis. The 2020 version featured four extra tracks including songs by Doug Sahm and Slim Whitman, plus two original instrumentals. The advent of the COVID pandemic in 2019/20 halted SCOTS touring and performing. The band managed to write and record some songs in a makeshift set-up in Miller's living room, these forming the basis of 2021's At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids album. Stripped-back arrangements of necessarily more intimate songs directly addressed the isolation and frustration caused by the pandemic (‘Call Me’) while ‘Run Baby Run’ was a garage rock stomper. SCOTS eventually returned to the road in late 2021, ramping up through 2022. Performance styleAllMusic said that Southern Culture on the Skids started as a straightforward roots rock group before morphing into "a raucous, tongue-in-cheek party band obsessed with sex and fried chicken in the early '90s". Stomp and Stammer described the band as "Green Acres meets Green Onions". According to the Lexington Herald Leader, "The trio has so persistently masked its obviously schooled swamp-rock gumbo sound with enough onstage trailer-park shtick to make many dismiss — or embrace, depending on your entertainment vantage point — the group as a novelty act. What is really going on is a band with roots-rock chops to spare zeroing on material and performance perspectives that keep its music fun." Charleston Grit says that the band