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Mike Ness wants you to know that the new Social Distortion album did not take 15 years to record.
It may be the longest gap between albums in the storied Orange County punk rock band's history, but it wasn't for lack of trying. A series of personal challenges, relentless touring and, ultimately, a cancer diagnosis all delayed the record.
Now, with Ness healthy and the band in fine form, Social Distortion joins World Cafe to perform songs from its eighth studio album, Born to Kill.
Today, Ness opens up about his experience with tonsil cancer and the surgery that frightened him more than anything he'd faced before.