Dirt Track Date

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Released 1995
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Label DGC Records
Producer Mark Williams and SCOTS
Southern Culture on the Skids chronology
Ditch Diggin'
(1994)
Dirt Track Date
(1995)
Plastic Seat Sweat
(1997)
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Dirt Track Date is an album by Southern Culture on the Skids, released in 1995. [5] [6] It was the band's first album for DGC Records. [7] The band attracted some attention with the release of the song "Camel Walk". [8]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Mark Williams, and was recorded at Reflection Studios, in Charlotte, North Carolina. [9]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Lacking the ebullient sense of reckless fun that fueled their best work, Dirt Track Date runs on nothing but the fumes of shtick." [5] No Depression called the album "one hell of a brainless good time," but lamented the relative lack of Mary Huff vocals. [10] The Los Angeles Times described it as "reeling rockabilly and corny country." [2]

Track listing

All songs were written by Rick Miller, except "Nitty Gritty" by Lincoln Chase, and arranged by the band.

  1. "Voodoo Cadillac" - 4:40
  2. "Soul City" - 2:36
  3. "Greenback Fly" - 3:47
  4. "Skullbucket" - 2:40
  5. "Camel Walk" - 2:37
  6. "White Trash" - 2:03
  7. "Firefly" - 3:24
  8. "Make Mayan a Hawaiian" - 2:24
  9. "Fried Chicken and Gasoline" - 4:17
  10. "Nitty Gritty" - 2:30
  11. "8 Piece Box" - 4:02
  12. "Galley Slave" - 3:00
  13. "Whole Lotta Things" - 2:29
  14. "Dirt Track Date" - 8:39

Personnel

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