And fans get a chance to get a glimpse of it and other people get to revisit it and figure out like, ‘Wow, I’ve been listening to this band for 25 years now, how awesome.'” “It’s like you’re playing a period of time in your life. “Anniversaries don’t come around that often, but this was such a pivotal point of our career,” the singer says, when asked about the tour. Now Ness and his bandmates are celebrating the legacy of that release by playing it in full on their summer tour. The risk earned Social Distortion a gold plaque from the RIAA and their first record on the Billboard chart. Songs like “Story of My Life,” “Ball and Chain” and “It Could Have Been Me” found bandleader Mike Ness parsing past relationships and abandoned addictions, while the group’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” showed how far they were willing to push.
A quarter of a century ago, punk firebrands Social Distortion modded out their sound with country swagger and rock & roll looseness on their influential self-titled, major-label debut.
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