Jason - One Foot in the Honky Tonk

(Liberty) (***)

Jack Hurst; Chicago Tribune
June 25, 1992

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Formerly of Jason & the Scorchers, the Illinois-born farm boy leader of that group here offers an album that will be surprisingly country to people unfamiliar with his musical roots. Producer Jerry Crutchfield, who also works with Tanya Tucker, has come up with a clean sound that is noticeably minus the customary clutter of rock while retaining much of that form’s instrumental excitement.
Although this comes from the alternative side of the country spectrum, there seem to be commercial possibilities in such cuts as “Try Me,” “The Devil’s Daughter” and the particularly affecting reprise of “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water.”

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