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 in one of the hardest rocking and most soulful albums of Todd's career and nobody, but nobody, plays it like Pat Todd. "Pat Todd is the most sincere Rock'n'Roll
singer/songwriter on the planet. He makes the rest of us look like a bunch of fakers." is how Blaine Cartwright of Nashville Pussy describes Pat Todd.
The lyrics of the 14-track album bristles with a sense of chaos, dedication, lies & love and mystery.
Side 1:
1. Why I Sing (3:30)
2. Lie'n Money & A Bad Disguise (2:26)
3. Big Talk With Guitars (2:27)
4. Galavantin' (3:06)
5. Poison Your Water (4:12)
6. Lies, Lies And More Lies (2:39)
7. That Little Bit Of Nuthin' (4:27)
Side 2:
1. The Company You Keep (3:29)
2. A World Up For Sale (3:16)
3. Sold Me Out For The Love Of A Dollar (3:32)
4. Just Another Stupid Guy (4:13)
5. You're Gonna Lose It All (2:27)
6. Victim Of Dedication (2:58)
7. Tower Of Song (2:58)