SCAC was born from the break-up of The Denver Gentlemen – a band that included both David Eugene Edwards and Jeffery-Paul Norlander of 16 Horsepower.

April 2013 saw the release of "SCAC 102 An Introduction For Young And Old Europe" on Germany's Glitterhouse Records, which included a selection of fifteen songs from their studio albums ("Always Say Please & Thank You" and later).

[23] In February 2020, it was announced by Westword that the new album would be titled Kinnery of Lupercalia: Undelivered Legion and would be released in the latter half of the year.

[33] The band formed in 2006 with just Munly, Lord Dwight Pentecost, and Slim Cessna; Rebecca Vera joined later on.

[36] Their cover of "Top Yourself" by The Raconteurs is included on the album Rockin' Legends Pay Tribute to Jack White, released in November 2013.

The work is loosely based on the Peter and the Wolf composition by Sergei Prokofiev, and is said to be a prequel to the stories of Lupercalia told over a span of four albums.

[47] On March 24, 2022, the band posted the vinyl album cover art for Kinnery of Lupercalia: Undelivered Legion, and announced that it would be available to pre-order until the official release date of May 13, 2022.

[citation needed] In 1996, SCAC appeared twice on More Than Mountains: A Benefit For Colorado Conservation, a compilation album released by W.A.R Records.

[49] Many of the songs on Buried Behind the Barn were also featured on Crossbreeding Begins at Home, another Smooch Records compilation album, which received a limited release of 200 copies in January 2004.

Munly and Slim Cessna were featured in a segment of "Seven Signs: Music, Myth, and the American South" (2008), a film by JD Wilkes of Th' Legendary Shack Shakers.

[51][52] Munly recited the original story "Döder Made Me Do It"[53] and joined Slim in an acoustic version of their song "Children of the Lord".

[54] The band performed a cover of "Ain't My Problem Baby" for Axels & Sockets, the third and final installment of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, released by Glitterhouse Records on May 2, 2014.

He was born and raised in Colorado, but has also lived in Providence, Rhode Island and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[58] before eventually moving back to Denver.

He has two children from a previous marriage: one daughter, Amelia (born in 1990)[59][60] and one son, fellow SCAC member George Cessna.

[59] George Cessna, born on November 24, 1991,[61][59] formally joined the band in 2018, replacing bassist Ian O'Dougherty.

[47] He had completed three albums as a solo artist before joining the band in 1998, around the same time as Lord Dwight Pentacost,[64] after being friends with Slim Cessna for a few years.

Between 1998 and 1999, she collaborated with Jeffrey-Paul Norlander on an "industrial techno" project, Hoitoitoi, where she sang and played the violin in addition to the cello.

[72][73] She currently provides backing vocals, in addition to playing cello, pedal steel, and harmonium, in The Denver Broncos UK (DBUK) and Munly & The Lupercalians.

[77] The Oklahoma Gazette said that the band "started out as a traditional Western act [before it] morphed into a rowdy, Americana style dubbed gothabilly cowpunk.

said that the group breaks from country music traditions by featuring elements such as "the occasional banjo-feedback solo or bowed and distorted pedal steel guitar".

[76] A profile in KRCC said that the band has also been classified as "gothabilly - alternative country music with apocalyptic religious themes often fueled by alcohol, violence and love run amok".

[80] Indie 102.3 compared the band's live performances to "finding yourself in a gospel tent-revival besieged by punks—expect speaking in tongues and a mosh pit.

"[81] The Plain Dealer wrote, "Since the mid-1990s, the Denver outfit has explored the darker, more twisted edges of the genre with an idiosyncratic brand of Gothic Americana laced with frenetic rhythms and a vocal delivery that, at times, comes off like an auctioneer fronting a country-western band.

"[82] AllMusic described them as a country-punk band,[83] and "country-bluegrass-gospel testifiers",[84] saying that they "play country gospel with a fervor that seems to emanate from a punk pulpit.

[86] The Cleveland Scene wrote, describing the band's sound, "Yodeling gospel through gold teeth, Cessna leads a quintet of dizzying organ, weeping steel guitar, and deep-twang six-string, guiding the flock through nondenominational obsessing on Jesus and his sacrifices.

Dressed in suits and cowboy hats, the Auto Club splits its time between praising the Lord and using his name as an expletive.

"[87] The Orlando Weekly described the band as having a "country-rock sound with an eerie gospel aesthetic", writing, "The deep, dark loam of American folk music from which the gothic country gospel of Slim Cessna's Auto Club slithers and thrives [...] obscures the line between devotion and something perhaps more off", suggesting that the band is the "less cartoonish, more earnest country kin of the Legendary Shack Shakers".

[89] Spectrum Culture wrote that the band's lyrics "frequently wrestle with the nature of good and evil against a backdrop of the spooky, rattlesnake-laden landscape of our nation’s western reaches.

This is the other old, weird America; not the one re-imagined by The Band in tales about the Civil War and the woes of farmers on the edge of the abyss.

This is the lawless, ruggedly individualized and grotesque world of such writers as Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, with a forbidding darkness that hovers like a hawk circling its prey.