Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders - Sons Of The City Ditch - VINYL LP

A resurgent Dog Meat Records is thrilled and proud to a new album by a resurgent rock'n'roller and an old friend, Pat Todd and his band Tje Rankoutsiders. The seventh album by LA's finest rock'n'roll band comes some 36 years after the tag's first dalliances with Pat, back when he fronted the legendary Lazy Cowgirls. The new album shows that Pat has lost none of his spark, that his voice and songwriting have only gotten stronger, and that he's got another killer band behind him, one that mixes classic '70s punk rock roots with country, blues and rock'n'roll in a manner that sits somewhere between Exile on Main Street and LAMF. The new album is highlighted as usual by Pat Todd's fantastic songs. A prolific writer with an eye on life in the margins-whether they be in small towns or the big sprawling city he has called home for 40 years-Todd routinely hits the mark where youth and the advancement of age find common ground in alienation and wilfulness. Pat knows that rock'n'roll is not necessarily a young person's game, and nor is it a glamourous one; the name he gave this band accurately points to where he and they are coming from. New originals like 'All We Have To Show', the horn-riffing rocker 'Living In A World of Hurt' and the raucous country-folk punker 'Goodbye to the World' are up there with anything he has ever written, and the Rankoutsiders play them even better than ever. Indeed, a couple of choice covers-a version of 'Hi Ho Silver Lining', sung by guitarist Nick Alexander and cut before Jeff Beck's unfortunate passing, and a version of David Johansen's old heartbreaker 'Donna' cut before word of Martin Scorsese's Johansen documentary got out-shows by comparison to the original versions just how well these guys can crank it out. For over 20 years-from the early '80s to the early '00s-Pat Todd fronted the undisputed Los Angeles roots-punk kings The Lazy Cowgi