Links

Links with Jason and the Scorchers relevance:

Jason Ringenberg's official site, which is run by Mike Hodge:
http://www.jasonringenberg.com

Eric Sproul runs a great site with lots of scans of Scorchers memorabilia:
http://www.ericsproul.to/jats/

If you want to stay in touch with what is happening with the Scorchers, the best way (besides
bookmarking this and Jason's official site) is to subscribe to the Reckless Country Soup mailing list. Make sure that if your email program can't handle a lot of messages, that you subscribe in *digest* format:
http://monroe.lib.mi.us/mailman/listinfo/rcsoup

A very nice article on the Scorchers written for Creative Loafing in1998:
http://archive.cln.com/greenville/newsstand/archives/080198/cover.htm

Miles of Music has an excellent interview with Jason:
http://www.milesofmusic.com/momzine/mzjringenberger.html

An article on Jason from September 2000, and a review of a New York concert from 1998:
http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=1124067

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=200016

Here is an excellent article on Jason from the Cleveland Scene newspaper:
http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2001-01-11/music.html

The Nashville Scene did a piece on Jason for his CD release party in August 2000:
http://archives.nashvillescene.com/cgi-bin
/article.cgi?story=Back_Issues:2000:August_31_2000:Music&version=1

Jason and the Scorchers played Farm Aid in Austin on July 4, 1986:
http://www.farmaid.org/org/historical/1986/

Jason sang a song or two in the studio with Ginger in 2000 when he was touring through the UK.
Here's an article and pictures from their session:
http://www.scuzz.com/ginger/features/jason.html

Jason did a short interview in 2000 for this site:
http://www.pressnetwork.com/

All Music publishes an encyclopedic book every year detailing the careers of hundreds of artists:
http://www.allmusic.com

Californian Alan Crandall wrote an eloquent essay on the band in 1998:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/jasonscorchers.html

Longtime Scorchers roadie Rod Gibson lists a profile and some contact info here:
http://www.tourpro.com/crewprofile.asp?MemberId=1085

The Castle is a recording studio in Franklin, Tennessee. The Scorchers recorded "A Blazing Grace" there, and Warner Hodges helped them remodel their studio a few years back. Engineer Mike Janas has helped the Scorchers on many of their productions, from their live shows to the recent mastering of Wildfires and Misfires.
http://www.castlemusicgroup.com

Here's the official site for Praxis Records, the independent label that released "Fervor" in 1983.
Jack Emerson, who was the manager of the Scorchers through the eighties, founded Praxis. The intro to this site has a nice flash animation, with the sounds of Warner's spurs from the "White Lies" video and then the Scorchers doing "Greetings From Nashville".
http://www.praxisrecordings.com

Renowned Nashville alt-country label E-Squared, which Jack Emerson and Steve Earle formed in 1994.
http://www.e2records.com/index2.html

Here's a link to a Steve Earle site that profiles Earle and Jack Emerson's record company, E Squared:
http://www.steveearle.net/earle&emerson.htm

Here's a May 2000 article from a Chapel Hill, NC newspaper about the demise of Mammoth Records:
http://www.spectatoronline.com/2000/050600/feature.html

The Scorchers talked and played on NPR in September, 1998. Here are a couple of links to their site:
http://npr.org/programs/anthem/bios/jasonandthescorchers.bio.html

http://npr.org/programs/anthem/thisweek/980919.html

Andy York, who was in the Scorchers from 1988-1990, is now playing with Willie Nile:
http://www.willienile.com/worrydolls.htm

Listen.com has a bunch of 30-second clips of Scorchers songs up which you can sample. This site is recommended mainly if you have Real Audio and a good internet connection:
http://www.listen.com/disco_artist.jsp?artistid=19467&chan=read

Scorchers fan the Reverend Keith Gordon has a neat site for music and pop culture aficionados:
http://www.mondogordo.com/

Heath Peek had a Scorchers site long before any of us on the internet did:
http://winfredpeek.freeyellow.com/

Artist Direct/UBL is a large (and confusing) site with a lot of bands and a good deal of information:
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/fp2.asp?layout=artist_card&artistid=5617&p_id=P++++13
315

Imusic has the "Midnight Roads" press release and a good message board on their site:
http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/indie/jasonandthescorchers.html

Here's a short essay written in 1995:
http://www.gumbopages.com/music/scorchers.html

Reckless Country Souper Doc Ned Rinalducci's pictures from the Italian Street Fair show, Nashville,
Sept. 2000:
http://content.communities.msn.com/isapi/fetch.dll?action=get_album&ID_
Community=souppictures&ID_Topic=1

More pictures from the Italian Street Fair show:
http://hometown.aol.com/roknpd/indexhtml.html

Here's a site that has Scorchers video links from time to time:
http://home.att.net/~frodaddy/index.html

Rolling Stone has a decent review of a show from 1998:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?afl=lstn&nid=4217&
lookupstring=289

Links/Vendors

One of the most frequent question we receive here at the official site is "How can I get some (out-of-
print) Scorchers CD's?" Well, here are some links to follow, in declining order of importance.

The best place to start is on Ebay. Follow the link below, and conduct a search for "jason scorchers.
" This should net you ten to twenty items for sale. If you don't have an account and a User ID, follow
the instructions, search each week, and get in there and bid.

Here's my approximation of what each of the OOP Scorchers CD's are going for:
Still Standing ('86) $50
Thunder and Fire ('89) $12
Essential Vol. One ('92) $24
Both Sides of the Line ('96) $23
A Blazing Grace ('95) $10
Midnight Roads and Stages Seen ('98) $12
www.ebay.com

Gemm.com is an extensive European-based site that serves as a 'meeting place' for several hundred
vendors to advertise. The way this works is as follows. You register with Gemm.com, including giving a credit card (unlike Ebay), and then you pick out what you want. Gemm forwards your request to the vendor and collects a commission. (Sometimes a vendor will want you to register with them directly.) This is a very good site if you find a domestic vendor that has a high fulfillment rating (four or five stars) and good prices.
To do a thorough Scorchers search, you need to search twice: for "Jason & the Scorchers" and "Jason
and the Scorchers."
http://www.li.gemm.com

CD Now, one of the largest and most efficient online music stores, is currently selling only "Rock On
Germany," "Clear Impetuous Morning," and Jason's 2000 solo record "A Pocketful of Soul."
http://www.cdnow.com/cgibin/mserver/SID=744086953/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND
/discography.html/ArtistID=JASON+&+THE+SCORCHERS

Miles of Music is a good site to get "A Pocketful of Soul," and they might sell "Rock on Germany."
http://www.milesofmusic.com/

Here's another vendor. I think this one is out in Oregon. You might have to scroll down the page to
find the Scorchers section.
http://www.soundcity2000.com/cd_az/cd04/T0483.HTML#J025647

Second Spin is a very good used CD site based in Colorado:
http://www.secondspin.com

Got links you would like to add?

e-mail web editor James Benkard at: webstaff@jasonandthescorchers.com
Site related info: webmaster@jasonandthescorchers.com

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		Links with Jason and the Scorchers relevance: Jason Ringenberg's official site, which is run by Mike Hodge: http://www.jasonringenberg.com Eric Sproul runs a great site with lots of scans of Scorchers memorabilia: http://www.ericsproul.to/jats/ If you want to stay in touch with what is happening with the Scorchers, the best way (besides bookmarking this and Jason's official site) is to subscribe to the Reckless Country Soup mailing list. Make sure that if your email program can't handle a lot of messages, that you subscribe in digest format: http://monroe.lib.mi.us/mailman/listinfo/rcsoup A very nice article on the Scorchers written for Creative Loafing in1998: http://archive.cln.com/greenville/newsstand/archives/080198/cover.htm Miles of Music has an excellent interview with Jason: http://www.milesofmusic.com/momzine/mzjringenberger.html An article on Jason from September 2000, and a review of a New York concert from 1998: http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=1124067 http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=200016 Here is an excellent article on Jason from the Cleveland Scene newspaper: http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2001-01-11/music.html The Nashville Scene did a piece on Jason for his CD release party in August 2000: http://archives.nashvillescene.com/cgi-bin /article.cgi?story=Back_Issues:2000:August_31_2000:Music&version=1 Jason and the Scorchers played Farm Aid in Austin on July 4, 1986: http://www.farmaid.org/org/historical/1986/ Jason sang a song or two in the studio with Ginger in 2000 when he was touring through the UK. Here's an article and pictures from their session: http://www.scuzz.com/ginger/features/jason.html Jason did a short interview in 2000 for this site: http://www.pressnetwork.com/ All Music publishes an encyclopedic book every year detailing the careers of hundreds of artists: http://www.allmusic.com Californian Alan Crandall wrote an eloquent essay on the band in 1998: http://www.furious.com/perfect/jasonscorchers.html Longtime Scorchers roadie Rod Gibson lists a profile and some contact info here: http://www.tourpro.com/crewprofile.asp?MemberId=1085 The Castle is a recording studio in Franklin, Tennessee. The Scorchers recorded "A Blazing Grace" there, and Warner Hodges helped them remodel their studio a few years back. Engineer Mike Janas has helped the Scorchers on many of their productions, from their live shows to the recent mastering of Wildfires and Misfires. http://www.castlemusicgroup.com Here's the official site for Praxis Records, the independent label that released "Fervor" in 1983. Jack Emerson, who was the manager of the Scorchers through the eighties, founded Praxis. The intro to this site has a nice flash animation, with the sounds of Warner's spurs from the "White Lies" video and then the Scorchers doing "Greetings From Nashville". http://www.praxisrecordings.com Renowned Nashville alt-country label E-Squared, which Jack Emerson and Steve Earle formed in 1994. http://www.e2records.com/index2.html Here's a link to a Steve Earle site that profiles Earle and Jack Emerson's record company, E Squared: http://www.steveearle.net/earle&emerson.htm Here's a May 2000 article from a Chapel Hill, NC newspaper about the demise of Mammoth Records: http://www.spectatoronline.com/2000/050600/feature.html The Scorchers talked and played on NPR in September, 1998. Here are a couple of links to their site: http://npr.org/programs/anthem/bios/jasonandthescorchers.bio.html http://npr.org/programs/anthem/thisweek/980919.html Andy York, who was in the Scorchers from 1988-1990, is now playing with Willie Nile: http://www.willienile.com/worrydolls.htm Listen.com has a bunch of 30-second clips of Scorchers songs up which you can sample. This site is recommended mainly if you have Real Audio and a good internet connection: http://www.listen.com/disco_artist.jsp?artistid=19467&chan=read Scorchers fan the Reverend Keith Gordon has a neat site for music and pop culture aficionados: http://www.mondogordo.com/ Heath Peek had a Scorchers site long before any of us on the internet did: http://winfredpeek.freeyellow.com/ Artist Direct/UBL is a large (and confusing) site with a lot of bands and a good deal of information: http://ubl.artistdirect.com/fp2.asp?layout=artist_card&artistid=5617&p_id=P++++13 315 Imusic has the "Midnight Roads" press release and a good message board on their site: http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/indie/jasonandthescorchers.html Here's a short essay written in 1995: http://www.gumbopages.com/music/scorchers.html Reckless Country Souper Doc Ned Rinalducci's pictures from the Italian Street Fair show, Nashville, Sept. 2000: http://content.communities.msn.com/isapi/fetch.dll?action=get_album&ID_ Community=souppictures&ID_Topic=1 More pictures from the Italian Street Fair show: http://hometown.aol.com/roknpd/indexhtml.html Here's a site that has Scorchers video links from time to time: http://home.att.net/~frodaddy/index.html Rolling Stone has a decent review of a show from 1998: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?afl=lstn&nid=4217& lookupstring=289 Links/Vendors One of the most frequent question we receive here at the official site is "How can I get some (out-of- print) Scorchers CD's?" Well, here are some links to follow, in declining order of importance. The best place to start is on Ebay. Follow the link below, and conduct a search for "jason scorchers. " This should net you ten to twenty items for sale. If you don't have an account and a User ID, follow the instructions, search each week, and get in there and bid. Here's my approximation of what each of the OOP Scorchers CD's are going for: Still Standing ('86) $50 Thunder and Fire ('89) $12 Essential Vol. One ('92) $24 Both Sides of the Line ('96) $23 A Blazing Grace ('95) $10 Midnight Roads and Stages Seen ('98) $12 www.ebay.com Gemm.com is an extensive European-based site that serves as a 'meeting place' for several hundred vendors to advertise. The way this works is as follows. You register with Gemm.com, including giving a credit card (unlike Ebay), and then you pick out what you want. Gemm forwards your request to the vendor and collects a commission. (Sometimes a vendor will want you to register with them directly.) This is a very good site if you find a domestic vendor that has a high fulfillment rating (four or five stars) and good prices. To do a thorough Scorchers search, you need to search twice: for "Jason & the Scorchers" and "Jason and the Scorchers." http://www.li.gemm.com CD Now, one of the largest and most efficient online music stores, is currently selling only "Rock On Germany," "Clear Impetuous Morning," and Jason's 2000 solo record "A Pocketful of Soul." http://www.cdnow.com/cgibin/mserver/SID=744086953/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND /discography.html/ArtistID=JASON+&+THE+SCORCHERS Miles of Music is a good site to get "A Pocketful of Soul," and they might sell "Rock on Germany." http://www.milesofmusic.com/ Here's another vendor. I think this one is out in Oregon. You might have to scroll down the page to find the Scorchers section. http://www.soundcity2000.com/cd_az/cd04/T0483.HTML#J025647 Second Spin is a very good used CD site based in Colorado: http://www.secondspin.com Got links you would like to add? e-mail web editor James Benkard at: webstaff@jasonandthescorchers.com Site related info: webmaster@jasonandthescorchers.com The Diesel Cafe l Meet Us l Links l Home l Search