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JASON & THE SCORCHERS
ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES FOR 30TH ANNIVERSARY RUN
Shows Include Live DVD Taping in Nashville on New Years Eve
Nashville, TN The living legend of Nashville rock band Jason & The Scorchers continues to roll along, and the band has just announced its winter
tour dates for late December and into January. This is not just any
tour, as the Scorchers are celebrating their 30th anniversary, and the
tour will include a special date at the Rutledge in the bands hometown
of Nashville on New Years Eve in which they play to film the show for a
future DVD release.
Its a common thing to go out on these anniversary tours and milk the
market, basically rehashing and cashing, said front man Jason
Ringenberg. We have no intention of doing anything like that. Our goal
is to show a vitally tight band looking forward, not back. Of course, as
always, we will do songs from our whole career, but we will also
heavily hit the latest Halcyon Times release. I do believe this version
of Jason and the Scorchers is one of our best lineups yet, even rivaling
the vintage 84-85 band.
Jason & The Scorchers, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the
Americana Music Conference in 2008, released Halcyon Times in February
2010, and it was the bands first studio album in fourteen years. The
album was every bit as dynamic and mind-blowing as their vintage work,
and the critical acclaim followed almost instantly, putting Halcyon
Times among some of the Scorchers best material.
"Frontman Jason Ringenberg and guitarist Warner Hodges recount the joys
of rock 'n' and family life, starting with the teenage thrill of
dropping five bucks at a record store for the pleasure of unfettered
access to Jerry Lee Lewis' music.Brian Mansfield, USA Todays Pick of the
Week plays like a tour through thirty-five years of punk-rock energy, from
the Ramones to the Replacements to Green Day. The Scorchers always had
one of the best band names, and now they have one of the best bands
again," Ben Greenman, The New Yorker.
In addition to founding members Jason Ringenberg and Warner E. Hodges,
Halcyon Times was the bands first recording with its muscular new rhythm
section of bassist Al Collins and young Swedish drummer Pontus Snibb.
Hodges guitar work is better than ever, full of style and inspired
originality, while Ringenberg rocks like he isstill 18, leaping off the
edge of the world, laughing while doing it. Snibb and Collins supply
that elusive, magic rock n roll groove, full of energy but grounded in
confident and unhurried power.
You will want to catch this band now, as they are, amazingly, still in the prime of their career.
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