Social Distortion plan acoustic album for 2009

In a new interview with Spinner, Social Distortion's Mike Ness reveals some of the long–running bands plans for the coming years.

For 2009, Ness is aiming for an acoustic Social Distortion album saying:

I think it could be really, really neat. It's almost like a Bob Dylan/Bruce Springsteen/Johnny Cash kind of feel with a punk edge ... but acoustic. Sometimes [the songs] are more powerful stripped down than with full volume.

The record will include new acoustic renditions of older songs as well as new material. Ness promises that a more traditional Social D. album as well as another solo album are also in the works:

I don't know what will be first. It's hard to say. I'm kind of leaving the first part of next year open for writing and recording and whatever happens, happens.

Ness begins a solo tour May 2 at the Stagecoach Festival at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif. The run lasts for three weeks. He has scheduled three more weeks in July and December.