The good times are coming again, in the form of North Carolina trio Rick Miller, Dave Hartman and Mary Huff, collectively known as Southern Culture On The Skids (SCOTS). The band’s latest, Countrypolitan (Yep Rock), celebrates the salad days of Nashville in the ‘60s and ‘70s, when country music first started to go “pop.” Though SCOTS is certainly not the type to approve of the banal pop-country of today (this means you, Kenny Chesney), they do enjoy exploring the blurred lines of genre-mixing. Like the twang and synth refiguring of T.Rex’s glam-rock epic “Life’s A Gas,” or the faithful rendition of the trucker tale “Wolverton Mountain” or Huff’s beautiful belting away on Wanda Jackson’s “Funnel of Love.” Recorded at Miller’s home base at Kudzu Ranch, Countrypolitan captures everything that’s great about SCOTS—or almost everything. As anyone who has seen the band live can attest, they remain the finest in concert experiences, a singing, dancing celebration of deliberately raucous white trash proportions. But consider y’allselves warned: Don’t be surprised if you get pelted with a breast or a drumstick during the set favorite “Eight Piece Box.” Consider it a sprinkling of a different sort of holy water, and that deep-fried poultry is really a baptism—a rebirth in a barroom church of country/rockabilly/trailer punk salvation. You will testify! Warm up duties comes from the queen city’s finest, honkiest-tonkiest ensemble, the Steam Donkeys.

Wednesday, September 26 at 8pm. Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St.

(855-3931/www.mohawkplace.com). $15/advance

(www.ticketweb.com) 0r $17/day of show