A resurgent Dog Meat Records is thrilled and proud to release a new album by a resurgent rock’n’roller and an old friend, PAT TODD and his band THE RANKOUTSIDERS. The seventh album by LA’s finest rock’n’roll band comes some 36 years after the label’s first dalliances with Pat, back when he fronted the legendary LAZY COWGIRLS. The new album shows that Pat’s 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 L.A.M.F.
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 glamorous 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 band is a powerhouse – their strengths are evident in the way they handle choice covers of JEFF BECK’s 1967 hit ‘HI HO SILVER LINING’ and DAVID JOHANSEN’s 1978 heartbreaker ‘DONNA’.
For over 20 years, Pat Todd fronted the undisputed roots-punk kings of LA: THE LAZY COWGIRLS. Having landed in LA from Midwest outpost Vincennes, Indiana in the early-mid ’80s, the Cowgirls’ live album Radio Cowgirl was the first release on scene prime mover SFTRI and ultimately inspired a resurgence of classic 1976 RAMONES/SAINTS/HEARTBREAKERS-style punk that stretched across the US into Europe, Japan and elsewhere, inspiring bands like THE MUFFS, NEW BOMB TURKS, OBLIVIONS, TEENGENERATE, ONYAS and others.
PAT TODD will be touring Australia solo, in a double-bill with MAD MACKA from The Cosmic Psychos and The Onyas, in late 2023. Stay tuned for details.
| THE LAZY COWGIRLS were but a memory in 2006 when PAT TODD and the RANKOUTSIDERS’ 28 song double-disc debut, The Outskirts of Your Heart was released. Where most bands would have exhausted their creative gas to fumes with such an ambitious first release, this was only the beginning for the RANKOUTSIDERS. Prior to their forthcoming Dog Meat Records album SONS OF THE CITY DITCH, the RANKOUTSIDERS have released six full-length albums (yes, some are double discs) and over a dozen singles and EPs, and they have more releases queued up. Each and every one of them is a testament to Pat’s personal vision of raw, high energy rock’n’roll infused with elements of country and rhythm & blues, and documentary proof that the RANKOUTSIDERS are one of the hottest rock’n’roll bands on the planet. Indeed, it must be said the RANKOUTSIDERS truly are a band: energetically flanking Pat stage left is long-time guitarist and vocalist KEVIN KELLER; to the right is guitarist and founding member, NICK ALEXANDER – the cool, calm and collected eye of the storm; bassist STEVEN VIGH holds the lower frequencies in check with steadfast authority, pushing the chorus to the next harmonic level, while drummer WALT PHELAN drives the engine hard while keeping the band on the rails. Tracklist 01. Livin’ In A World Of Hurt 02. All We Have To Show 03. State Line 04. Donna 05. Cheap Short Artist 06. Long In The Tooth (Before The Dolls) 07. Stagger & Swagger 08. Venus De Millo Broke My Back 09. Back Down In The Basement 10. Hi Ho Silver Lining 11. Goodbye To The World 12. Sons Of The City Ditch |
| PAT TODD & THE RANKOUTSIDERS’ SONS OF THE CITY DITCH IS OUT OCTOBER 13 ON DOG MEAT RECORDS. IT WILL BE RELEASED ON LP, CD, AND DIGITALLY.AUS distribution by Strangeworld. UK/Euro distribution by Forte. US distribution by Revolver. |
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