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Scorchers
News - May 2002
      
Jason and the Scorchers have
released a CD of rarities, demos and live
tracks. "Wildfires and Misfires" is now available through
Jason's record
company, Courageous Chicken, at the following sources:
http://www.jasonringenberg.com
Jason's official site takes credit card orders now, and Jason will even
autograph merchandise if you ask him to.
http://www.cdnow.com/cgibin/mserver/SID=1590417000/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/di
scography.html/ArtistID=RINGENBERG*JASON
Here is CD Now's Jason Ringenberg page, where you can get "Pocketful"
and,
soon, "Creation."
http://www.milesofmusic.com/
The one-stop shop for all your alt-country and Americana music purchasing
needs.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/76146/ref%3Dm%5F
art%5Fdp/104-2720001-1391160
Amazon has a nice Scorchers merchandise page up and is offering the
new
record.
For a review of "Wildfires," scroll below to the "Positive
Press" section.
Jason will be in the upcoming PBS
documentary, "The Appalachians." In it, he plays guitar and
sings with Paul Burch and Fats Kaplin. "The Appalachians"
will air on PBS in October or November.
We reported on Jason's performance for the filming
last year. You can read
more about it in our archived news section:
http://jasonandthescorchers.com/news/_2001/news_october_01.html
Live review from No
Depression Magazine
Here is a very complimentary review
of one of the Scorchers' 20th
anniversary shows. Thanks to Bratten Thomason for transcribing it.
March-April 2002
Jason and the Scorchers
Smith's Olde Bar (Atlanta, GA)
December 15, 2001
By James Kelly
The cool Atlanta night air was brisk enough to
keep an old-timer awake, and
when the roasting blast of smoke and body heat that filled Smith's Olde
Bar
first hit, it was an omen of things to come. A faded memory of a similar
night in a small beer joint in Murfreesboro, TN, almost two decades
earlier
was about to be revived with a vengeance.
The Scorchers roared out of the gate on the second
date of their incredibly
short 20th anniversary tour with a high-energy take on Hank Williams'
"Lost
Highway," followed immediately by "Greetings from Nashville"
and then right
into Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" before a word was spoken.
Resplendent in his flashy red and white western
shirt and topped with his
signature cowboy hat, Jason Ringenberg wasted no time in claiming the
night
for himself and his pals. A little older and slower, but with the love
of
music still on their side, original members Warner Hodges (guitar) and
Perry
Baggs (drums) were joined by relative newcomer Kenny Ames (bass), and
throughout the two hour show they rarely let up for a moment.
Twenty years is a long time for any band to survive,
and tonight the
Scorchers were clearly celebrating the high points of their career.
Ripping
through a virtual "greatest hits" set (despite never having
a bona fide hit
record), the band had the crowd screaming, dancing and singing along
in no
time. Ringenberg was almost drowned out by the audience during "Shop
It
Around", and the floor was shaking so hard throughout the entire
rave-up of
"Help, There's A Fire" that it felt like the place would cave
in. By this
point, Jason had become a whirling dervish, and Warner was spinning
his
guitar with wild abandon, never missing a note.
Slowing things down for a few moments, Ringenberg
invited Baggs to step up
to the mike and sing. Baggs was responsible for writing some of the
Scorchers' tangier tunes, and the crowd was impressed with a couple
of his
songs rendered with acoustic guitars.
Performing "Uncertain Girl" live for
the first time, Jason laughed about how
the band had just relearned it that day, and that Ames had never heard
it
before then. Another surprise was the performance of "Too Much
Too Young", a
previously unreleased tune that's now available on Yep Roc records'
new
WILDFIRES AND MISFIRES, a 19-track compilation of live and obscure songs
dug
out of the archives in celebration of the 20th anniversary.
As the evening wound down, the Scorchers turned
up the heat and the volume,
blasting through "Broken Whiskey Glass" and "White Lies".
The coda was an
all-out assault on the late John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country
Roads", and
then it was over. It was as if time had been reversed and the twenty
years
simply disappeared--at least for a little while.
From Thomas Faw of South Carolina, who
is a devoted fan of the band, and
also a good friend of mine.
"The shows were both great! Jason said that
a show has been added in Oslo
in June. Here are the set lists from the two NC shows."
Double Door Inn
Charlotte, NC 3-15-02
1. both sides of the line
2. jimmie rodgers last blue yodel
3. if you've got the love (i got the time)
4. shop it around
5. can't help myself
6. gospel plow
7. broken whiskey glass
8. 200 proof lovin'
9. my kingdom for a car
10. too much too young
11. polk salad annie
12. harvest moon
13. absolutely sweet marie
14. pray for me mama
15. long black veil
16. still tied
17. help there's a fire
18. drug store truck drivin man
19. if money talks
*******encore*******
20. i really don't want to know (jason danced on the bar)
21. white lies
****2nd encore******
22. take me home, country roads
Cat's Cradle
Chapel Hill, NC 3-16-02
1. lost highway
2. greetings from nashville
3. absolutely sweet marie
4. 2+1 = nothing
5. too much too young
6. shop it around
7. this town isn't keeping you down
8. gospel plow
9. polk salad annie
10. harvest moon
11. jimmie rodgers' last blue yodel
12. 200 proof lovin'
13. can't help myself
14. long black veil
15. somewhere within (perry sang a verse!)
16. still tied
17. drug store truck drivin' man
18. broken whiskey glass
19. if money talks
********encore********
20. i really don't want to know
21. white lies
*******2nd encore*******
22. take me home, country roads
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