You can't keep a good man down and Jason Ringenberg is one of the best of them. Boosted by the reception and satisfaction of his 2018 album STAND TALL, everybody's favourite cowpunk, witty, incisive, intelligent lyricist is back with another…

Rhinestoned by Jason Ringenberg: There’s enough hillbilly in Ringenberg’s singing and enough Appalachia in his rock ’n’ roll to make the wide-ranging subjects of his recent forays into homage-paying seem radical in the most literal sense. Last time it was…

Words of wisdom delivered through a crooked smile.  

Alt-country godfather Jason Ringenberg is back with yet another hell-raising record, his latest offering ‘Rhinestoned’ shares the same thread as his previous output, it’s unapologetically unique. The songs range from thought-provoking commentary…

One of the Godfathers of Americana, Jason Ringenberg had planned to take a step away from recording after his last album, Stand Tall, despite having some songs leftover. However, during 2020 other songs quickly flowed out resulting in Rhinestoned. Overall…

Forty years on from launching Jason and the Scorchers, the Illinois-born Southern-twanged cowpunk singer is as fired up as ever on Rhinestoned, his 21st release and seventh as a solo artist, partly comprising songs that didn’t make the Stand Tall…

Rhinestoned – Robust twanging songs 

There is something reassuring in Jason Ringenberg’s continued dedication to the values that lit his fuse some 40 years ago. Then in the role of singer with Jason & the Scorchers, Ringenberg was in the…

De 62-jarige Amerikaanse gitarist en singer-songwriter Jason Ringenberg werd in de buurt van Sheffield, Illinois geboren maar werd als muzikant pas bekend toen hij in 1981 naar Nashville, Tennessee verhuisde en er de countryrockgroep ‘Jason And The Scorchers’ oprichtte met…

Het is een ongeschreven regel binnen de country muziek dat niet iedereen zich zomaar een hillbilly mag noemen. Vroeger had je artiesten zoals Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams en later Waylon Jennings en Willie Nelson die de naam hillbilly met trots…

Jason Ringenberg kennen we vooral als frontman van Jason and The Scorchers, de alternatieve Countryband die al sinds de jaren ’80 platen uitbrengt. Toch heeft Ringenberg ook een respectabele solocarrière opgebouwd en na Stand Tall dat hij in 2019 uitbracht…

As frontman of Jason & the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg, along with bands like The Blasters, Lone Justice and Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ helped pioneer that potent blend of punk rock and country. As a result, they laid the foundation for everyone…

Often referred to as a ‘godfather of Americana’, Nashville’s Jason Ringenberg has had a long and successful career mixing country with rock since the early ‘80s as frontman of the legendary Jason & The Scorchers, as a solo artist and…

Jason & the Scorchers frontman Jason Ringenberg is a pioneering Americana legend who has also enjoyed a critically-acclaimed and modestly-successful solo career that kicked off with 2000’s A Pocketful of Soul, which was followed by 2002’s All Over Creation. In…

As with intricate artwork, Jason Ringenberg’s new album, “Rhinestoned,” can be appreciated the deeper it is inspected. The diamonds aren’t real but everything else is brilliant and true. 

A month spent in the…

In one sense you could say that Jason Ringenberg has always honored the past. The legendary rocker and former frontman for the seminal Americana band Jason and The…

He might be the product of a farming family from rural Illinois, who passed through Carbondale for a few years on his way to Nashville, but Jason Ringenberg has proved himself a true Country hillbilly. 

The message twangs…

Rhinestoned is Jason Ringenberg riding a rollercoaster record. The first half of Rhinestoned is climbing up the first hill, the coaster coasting at a medium pace where you can enjoy ascending as you dig on the scenery. When the coaster…

If anything positive can be said about the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that lockdown restrictions forced many musicians away from touring and into their sheds and back bedrooms to write and produce new music. One such example is Illinois-born and…

ILLINOIS-BORN Jason Ringenberg was delivering his own distinctive brand of Americana long before the genre was even blessed with a name, fusing the unbridled energy of new wave with the homespun charms of country music as he made his name…

As frontman of Jason & the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg, along with bands like The Blasters, Lone Justice and Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ helped pioneer that potent blend of punk rock and country. As a result, they laid the foundation for everyone…

Jason Ringenberg releases his new album Rhinestoned on his Courageous Chicken label. A legendary alt-country pioneer, Ringenberg will have you Rhinestoned and boot-scootin’ to the best cow-punk this side of Nashville. Pandemic be damned, you’ll want to socially distance yourselves…

Jason Ringenberg ought to be credited as one of the first fully participatory Americana insurgents, thanks in large part to his seminal efforts with…