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Blazing Grace review
**** (highly recommended)
Scott Schinder; Pulse! Magazine
February 1995
Copyright 1995-2004 Pulse! Magazine
tA dozen
years after they first debuted their riveting hybrid of of barnstorming
hick-metal and spiritual crisis, the severely underappreciated Jason
and the Scorchers return with their vision and chops intact on A Blazing
Grace (Mammoth, ****).
The short-but-sweet 10-song album maintains the band’s trademark
mix of hardcore honky-tonkin’ (“Cry By Night Operator,”
“200 Proof Lovin’”), oddball covers (George Jones and
John Denver) and melancholy considerations of personal hellfire (“Hell’s
Gates,” “Shadow of Night”), with frontman Jason Ringenberg’s
compellingly conflicted vision remaining as timely as ever, and the
Scorchers still packing a man-sized punch that whips the heck out of
99 percent of the competition.
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