Pat Todd - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Harmonica
Nick Alexander - Electric & Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Kevin Keller - Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Lap Steel & Lead Vocal on "You're Gonna Lose It All"
Steven Vigh - Bass Guitar & Vocals
Walter Phelan - Drums, Percussion
Recorded and engineered by Gavin Ross at Steady Studios Burbank, CA
Produced and arranged by the Rankoutsiders
Photos by Dug Moore and Mike Fickel
Graphics by Paul Mejias
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For decades, Pat Todd has trolled the dark corners and back
shelves of the thrift store of Americana and honed an extraordinarily sound. The new album distills everything he’s learned in his career-long, of all things rock and roll into a genre-scoffing dose of snarling ’70s punk rock, country, blues, roots rock full of hooks delivered with a brain and a heart. While these fundamentals have always been behind the Rankoutsiders’ anthemic songs, they come to full fruition on "Keepin’ Chaos at Bay" is one of the hardest rocking and most soulful albums of Todd’s career and nobody, but nobody, plays it like Pat Todd.
The lyrics of the 14-track album bristles with a sense of chaos, dedication, lies & love and mystery. Also a Rankoutsiders constant are the premier-league tunes: songs are filled to bursting point with grandstanding melodies, and subtle little hooks. New Originals like "Why I Sing", "The Company You Keep" or "Victim Of Dedication" reminds of his previous red hot outlaw rock band The Lazy Cowgirls while the country-folk punker "Poison Your Water" infiltrate your blood. "That Little Bit Of Nothin’" takes the listener through the ups and downs and is full of heartbreak and desire. The cover version of "Tower of Song" by Leonard Cohen shows how well the band can rearrange this song for themselves and turns it as if it were their own.
The world ain’t fair; it never has been and it never will be, but if it were, Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders would be household name.
Release Date: 26 April 2024
