Social Distortion "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" 2025-12-26 and Sinéad O'Connor

and Sinéad O'Connor

when they played a “final show”

PLEASE NOTE: The vinyl release of "Heavy Petting Zoo" has an alternate cover that includes the phrase "Eating Lamb"

one of the band’s most impressive feats is a more seamless blending of Country/Americana and Rock/Punk

Social Distortion "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" 2025-12-26 and Sinéad O'ConnorHard 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