Social DistortionThe group's self titled third album expands on the ideas introduced on the preceding PRISON BOUND. Singer songwriter Mike Ness offers post rehab tales from the wrong side of the tracks, alternately lamenting his past and declaring his allegiance to the rock & roll outlaw lifestyle. The band's slamming punk attack is leavened by an increased country and roots rock flavor, as on a no holds barred cover of "Ring of Fire," the gospel tinged plea for