With a name like Southern Culture on the Skids, you bet they put on one hell of a show. The North Carolina-based SCOTS (as they're known to the fans) are kind of in the neighborhood of a cult act, but they've been rousing audiences worldwide for 20 years now with their raunchy, sweaty psychobilly rock/surf tunes. But it's only now that they've released the first album that captures their shows, Doublewide And Live, which drops into record stores Tuesday. I caught the band a few times in college, and their shows are delirious fun. (How can any band that encourages fans to wear fried chicken buckets on their head and occasionally tosses banana pudding in the audience be bad?)

Frontman Rick Miller crafts odes to fried chicken, El Caminos, and down-low boogeying in his good-natured tunes. SCOTS is all about partyin', Southern style. Miller's voice is like a boozy cross between Elvis, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Jerry Lee Lewis. It's all sneer and sweet sass — "This one's dedicated to big hair!" Miller whoops at the start of "Liquored Up And Lacquered Down." Doublewide and Live features song titles like "Banana Pudding," "Dirt Track Date," and "Ditch Diggin," to give you an idea where they're coming from.

The trailer-trash hi-jinks might obscure that, schtick aside, SCOTS are also a pretty damned good band. Miller and bassist Mary Huff trade their lusty vocals back and forth between songs, and drummer Dave Hartman keeps a mean beat. It's Miller's surf guitar genius that really anchors the band's sound, though. Fluid and jangly, he'll go from thrash-rock in "Dirt Track Date" to quasi-metal in "Mojo Box" to a full-on Dick Dale homaging surf-guitar workout in the epic "Meximelt."

The fantastic "Ditch Diggin'" is a crowd-pleasing number that combines James Brown-style groanin' and gruntin' with the propulsive crunch of a Led Zeppelin song. Yet they can slow down and get all sentimental-like, as in the catchy Huff-sung ballad "Just How Lonely," which wouldn't have been out of place as a country rock hit single.

I do have one small caveat with this otherwise fine live set - it's a cryin' shame that one of my personal favorite SCOTS songs, the classic "Camel Walk," isn't on this disc. It's the band's only real radio hit and a bona fide Southern-fried keeper.

Diehard fans should also be on the lookout for the Deluxe CD version of Doublewide and Live, which has three bonus songs, an enhanced cd with live footage, and special packaging containing a pop-up doublewide trailer. For good timin' greasy glitzy fun, SCOTS is one of the best bands on the road. Doublewide and Live brings the party home.