STILL SCORCHING

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 23, 1995, Thursday, FIVE STAR Edition

Copyright 1995 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.

Sure, Jason and the Scorchers were meant to be heard with the amps at fill-tilt boogie, but at the retro honkytonkers' first comeback gig in St. Louis, the sound was cranked up so much that afterward it was hard to hear anything below a scream until next morning. Driving home after the concert, you felt as if you had ear muffs on.

The sound should be a little more on the reasonable side - not too much above
jet-plane level - on Friday evening when the Scorchers make their first post-reunion appearance at Mississippi Nights.

Singer/songwriter Jason Ringenberg, guitarist Warner Hodges, bassist Jeff
Johnson and drummer Perry Baggs got their act back together in '93. Now, the
Scorchers' reunion attempt has received a king-sized boost from their new album,
"A Blazing Grace," which has been getting rave reviews - though the music
magazines seem unsure whether to pigeonhole the band as country or as rock.

"A Blazing Grace" features Ringenberg's down-home songs, Hodges' guitar blasts and a gleeful deconstruction of John Denver's "Country Roads." There may not be anything quite up to "White Lies" or "Money Talks," but you can check those out on the band's best-of album. Jason and the Scorchers, Mississippi Nights, 914 N. First St., 9 p.m. Saturday, $ 8 in advance, $ 10 day of show. Information: 421-3853.

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