Social Distortion "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" Polyvinyl Records the album is the fourth

the album is the fourth from the band and the first not to feature founding vocalist and guitarist Josiah Johnson

as on "Rock Is Dead

"Warsaw" and "New Dress" explore world-scale class struggle and out-and-out warfare

Tweedy quite literally banishes the darkness on the penultimate track

song craft and staggering emotional impact of Beck's most classic ballads

Social Distortion "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" Polyvinyl Records the album is the fourthHard Times and Nursery Rhymes builds on singer Mike Ness twin footings, one in the haunted American landscapes of Hank Williams and the other in the raw swagger of Exile era Rolling Stones. While these twin pillars have always been behind Social Distortion's anthemic songs, on Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes they come roaring to the fore, in one of the hardest rocking, most soulful albums of Ness's career. From opener California (Hustle and Flow), in a