" It's Almost Like a Bob Dylan / Bruce Springsteen / Johnny Cash kind of feel with a punk edge "
(Mike Ness)
The year 2011 could not better start. Before the new Decemberists (who listened well dvvero is a great record), now the new Social Distortion . In other words: the kindness rural violence underground. I love and adore Social Distortion Mike Ness. The first, when I saw them live a couple of years ago, the second time since I listened to his solo work. Then went to retrieve all the records of SD (which is the band of Mike Ness, of course).
The Social Distortion are now one of the last (last?) Pure rock'n'roll band, but they sound as if a group of criminals of the era of the Great Depression had at our disposal of electric guitars. The new album, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is a eslosione joy of rock'n'roll: the initial instrumental Road Zombie, that Sergio Leone would have gladly used for one of his films if he were still alive in California (Hustle and Flow) that reproduces the exact point where they thought the Stones Honky Tonk Women. And obviously Hank Williams: After riprieso Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash in the past, here is another symbol of imprenscindibile SD, Hank Williams with his Alone and Forsaken. A hard explosive, played recklessly, with the nice surprise of a female chorus here and there to flesh out music that throws everything into a boiling cauldron is "America."
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