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CD Review by Aubrey McInnis SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Liquored Up and Lacquered Down TVT Records · Seventh LP from Chapel Hill, North Carolina quartet that makes any family’s black sheep look like a debutante. More fun than shootin' BBs at highway signs or lighting stinky outhouses on fire, the swampy roots rock of Southern Culture on the Skids has been entertaining hillbilly wannabes for over 15 years. Armed with Wild Turkey, a bucket of fried chicken and two down-home vocalists, the torchy Mary Huff and gristly Rick Miller, SCOTS are back with more country-fried hee haw hits such as odes to big hair and bottomless booze. The mid-album shiner is Mary's weeper, "Just How Lonely," a gospel-tinged moonshine melody to add to the list of all-time greatest heartache numbers. Otherwise, Liquored Up and Lacquered Down is full of hog-wild backwoods boogies and pokes fun at being soppy sad, drunk and lonesome, in their words, "again." 4/5

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