SCORCHERS TO HEAT UP DISTRICT; Jason brings band to Nashville fresh from European tour

By RICK DE YAMPERT
The Tennessean
May 13, 1999, Thursday

Copyright 1999 The Tennessean

Listen up and pay attention, all you students in rock school. Here's your Thursday night assignment: Study the effects of world-wide touring on an American rock 'n' roll band. Your subject: Jason and the Scorchers. Specifically, you are to research how playing in a joint called Studentersamfunnet in Halden, Norway, one week, and then at Nashville's Dancin' in the District the next week, affects this planet's greatest cow-punk band.

Yep, the Scorchers are rolling into Thursday's Dancin' in the District concert fresh off a late April/early May mini-tour of Europe, where they played London, Dublin and various ports in Norway, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Belgium.

The theory here about the effect of their European jaunt: Look for the Scorchers to be jazzed when they take the Dancin' stage Thursday night in Riverfront Park. After all, the Scorchers are hailed as gods, and rightfully so, by Londoners and other Euro rock fans, who know the world's best plutonium-hot, twang-rock band when they see it.

That said, the Scorchers are just part of a strong bill at Thursday's Dancin' in the District show. Also performing: roots rockers Rayon City Quartet and Alejandro Escovedo, and rootsy pop-rockers The Nevers.

Dancin' in the District will be Thursday in Riverfront Park at First Avenue and Broadway. The event begins at 5 p.m., with music starting at 6 p.m. and concluding at about 10:30 p.m. Admission is free.

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