A most curious record. Made in North Carolina, but issued by Australian label, Giant Claw, Come and Get It (Before It Done Gets Cold) represented the first jogging steps towards regular product from Southern Culture on the Skids, a rock trio that, on the evidence of this track are 33% country hoedown party band, 33% landlocked surf rockers and 33% art-school comedy troupe.* To judge by the video of a TV performance of this song, they comprised a guitar-hero who played mean geetar to get pig shit off his hands (Rick Miller), a curlers festooned farmer’s wife, coaxed from strangling chickens on the porch to come down and play bass (Mary Huff) and a passing tourist in a wideboy hat who could afford a drum kit but no stool ‘cause Rick and Mary needed it for milking cows (Dave Hartman).
Having been active since 1983, during which time they had released just one album and two singles, they had used their long apprenticeship on the live circuit well as this single and an accompanying album on Moist Records called Too Much Pork For Just One Fork were to be the precursor to a smorgasbord of records over the next 28 years. Last year’s Kuduzu Records Presents album was their 17th across that time period.
Come and Get It (Before It Done Gets Cold) brings together two great pleasures in life and two obsessions of the Carolinas: food and sex to subtly lascivious effect. Rev. Buck Naked would be proud of the playful spoon sucking behind lines like, I love your cakes and pies/I love them chicken thighs/I love your cakes and pies/But what I love most is that look in your eyes... and Huff’s pots and pans retort shows just how well she and her kinfolk understand the suggested importance of running a good kitchen in tandem with a good bedroom. Not to mention the importance of striking while passions run as hot as the food brought sizzlin’ from the oven. An utter pork grits joy of a song.
Leave the washing up till the morning, honey...
*Evidence not entirely born out by listening to their material in greater depth.
Video courtesy of Southern Culture on the Skids - Topic
Lyrics are copyright of their authors.
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