Social Distortion is a fairly hard punk-ish band with a sort of odd Johnny Cash influence. They are from Orange County, CA. I believe they excel at songs having a maximum of three cords.
Bruce Springsteen loved them.
I've seen them several times. They were regulars at the House of Blues at Downtown Disney. When I was gping through my divorce, I saw them three times one week. One of my ex-Disney friends was the operations manager (and she HATED my ex-wife), so concerts were free (for me). It helped keep my sanity.
Years later, I had to apologize to my wife after taking her to see them (I made up for it later by taking her to see Maroon Five/Three Doors Down/Counting Crows).
I have this theory that real music should make you want to punch someone in the thorax. This seems to do that.
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Enjoy.