Six years, an EP, and a full length album later and you can find the band regularly supporting country music giants such as Lee Brice, Riley Green, Parker McCollum, and A Thousand Horses at Joe's on Weed Street (4 Time Winner of the Academy of Country Music Award for Nightclub of The Year) and sister venue Joe's Live Rosemont. SCR got their start playing in the bars on Chicago's south side. We're just excited to hit the road in support of the new record.” You write what you know, ya know?" Singer and fellow writer Joe Pacelli agrees, "Yeah, I tend to tap into past experiences” and jokes “Some of my songs might go a little further back down memory lane than Quinner's though. Produced and recorded by fellow Chicagoan Mike Hagler (Wilco, Waco Brothers, OK Go) at Kingsize Soundlabs, "Smoke is largely introspective”, says co-writer and guitarist John Quinn. Drawing on the energy and story-telling from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Brooks & Dunn, Tom Petty, and Steve Earle, listeners are immersed in a landscape filled with abandoned steel mills, sticky bar floors and rusted out Chevys. The new album, the band's first full-length effort, is at its core an exploration of country and roots-rock music. Forged in the city of frigid winters and ferocious wind, the band continues to expand on their vision of Midwest Americana with, "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire". South City Revival is a workingman’s band from Chicago, IL.
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