about three weeks ago my friend passed me a copy Grushecky of Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes of Social Distortion one of the discs was more willing to listen recent years. Mike Ness is not exactly prolific and spend a few years between each release. I took it eagerly, looking forward, to burn. Expectations were high and the first listen invited to go on and on ... This is also one of the most accessible albums of this band, those who come to the first. A flash irresistible. Then I stopped listening a week (has emerged so) and I started again this and my conclusions do not differ too much from the initial impressions.
listen to a band along the way with admirable consistency. It all starts with Hank Williams and Johnny Cash as he likes to always say to Ness. For this group influences have always been well defined. No need to hide. Are in the back of Cheating at solitaire. You must have enough songs and stories to tell. Mike's friend Ness has both. The common theme is, What?. So often in Woody Allen or Paul Auster and when the Muses haunt them correctly for me are irresitibles. Worth the wait when your stereo sounds wonderful as California (Hustle and Flow), Diamond in the rough, blues Machine gun, Bakersfield or Can not take it with you .
There are some new shades or at least not previously heard on any album Social Distortion, as the wonderful female vocals with a touch of gospel California (Hustle and Flow) and Can not take it with you and some songs that exploit a more melodic vein, even pop Far Side of Nowhere or Writing on the wall. In the first case with brilliant results in the second less so. version of Alone and Forsaken Hank Williams fits perfectly into an album that opens with an instrumental another curiosity perfect for warming the atmosphere, Zombie Road. The issues are less convinced me Writing on the Wall and Still Alive, both as a good friend would lack punch but on the way Ness has left me enough songs that flit through my head a good season and again when you least expect classics.
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