KBCS Presents: Southern Culture on the Skids with Poi Rogers

Southern Culture on the Skids comes to Tractor Tavern on Friday September 4th, with Poi Rogers opening. Doors open at 7:00pm and the show starts at 8:00pm. This is a 21+ event. KBCS 91.3 is proud to present a night that Rolling Stone once called a hell raising rock and roll party.

About the Artists

Southern Culture on the Skids

Southern Culture on the Skids has been recording and touring since 1983. The band — Rick Miller on guitar and vocals, Mary Huff on bass and vocals, and Dave Hartman on drums — has played together for over thirty years. Their road has taken them from all night North Carolina house parties to late night TV with Conan O'Brien, from the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan to playing for inmates at North Carolina correctional facilities.

They have shared stages with Link Wray, Loretta Lynn, Hasil Adkins, and Patti Smith. Weird Al has parodied their music. In 2014 the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill honored the band with an exhibition on their cultural contributions.

Rick Miller calls their sound "our wobbly Americana" — rock and roll, surf, folk, and country, all a bit off-center. Their most recent full length, At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids, was recorded in Miller's living room during the pandemic. Forty-three years in, they have never stopped having fun with it

Poi Rogers

Poi Rogers is the Santa Cruz duo of Gerard Egan and Carolyn Sills. Their sound blends western swing, Americana, Hawaiian steel guitar, and clever storytelling. Carolyn and Gerard have won the Ameripolitan Award for Western Swing Group twice, in 2018 and 2024. They are both inducted into the Sacramento Western Swing Hall of Fame.

Their newest record Whirligig came out in May 2026. It tells stories about the longest home run in baseball history, a long defunct flower festival, and how happiness equals life minus expectations. One of the songs, "Gil Carter," is about a minor league player who hit a 733 foot home run in 1959 — documented only because a sportswriter found the peach it knocked out of a tree two blocks from the stadium. He never made the majors. He retired to Topeka with the ball and bat, and people would visit just to hear him tell the story. That is the kind of song Poi Rogers writes.