This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Nobody is ever going to accuse Southern Culture On The Skids of thinking outside the (eight-piece) box. But that’s OK.
Some of us were born to be innovators. Some were born to be imitators. And others were born to crank out platter after platter of greasy chicken-fried garage-rock, swampy blues and twangy surfabilly about pork products, corn liquor and bugs. Mojo Box, the eighth full-length from singer-guitarist Rick Miller and his Chapel Hill trio, finds the SCOTSmen (and woman) up to their old tricks, taking the best licks of CCR, Dick Dale and Johnny Rivers, setting them to pumpin’ thumphin’ backwoods beats and using them to sing the praises of doublewides, ’69 El Caminos and the fire of love. Granted, nothing here approaches the hayseed brilliance of their ’96 high point Dirt Track Date. Even so, it’s obvious these folks have still got their mojo working. And damned if it won’t work on you.
