“A few years back I had resigned myself to the fact that my days as a recording artist were probably over”: so begin the sleeve notes to Jason Ringenberg’s new album ‘Stand Tall’. And fans of his music were probably…

Three Weeks in the Wilderness Put Jason Ringenberg Back in the Groove 

The Scorchers frontman discusses Stand Tall, his first solo album since 2004, ahead of his residency at The 5 Spot 

As the twangy, whirligigging supernova of a frontman…

There is a line from an old song that says that ‘you don’t miss your water till your well runs dry.’ In that light you don’t know you miss Jason Ringenberg until a new album arrives on your desk. Ringenberg…

“I need Jason scorching past……” 

Those words. Right there. Is there a Wildhearts fan who hasn’t listened to “29 x The Pain” and checked out all the bands it mentions? 

I did. And that line, right there in the second…

The energised performer whose work with the excellent Jason and the Scorchers helped to breathe new life into American roots music during the eighties and nineties has been operating as a solo act for the past twenty years or so…

What defines a rebel? The Hollywood template of a rebel is James Dean, the rugged bad boy who lives on the fringes of the law, but whose smirking charm wins support. But, at its core, a rebel is simply someone…

Stand Tall, the new solo album from Jason and the Scorchers‘ Jason Ringenberg, opens with a spectacular instrumental. This title track, a steely composition of orchestral Americana, is a majestic, wordless paean to the equally wordless giant sequoias that inspired…

Scorching Set of New, Old and Truly Authentic Country Songs

Think about this for a minute; how come a man who was at the forefront of what we now know as *Ameripolitan or whatever we are calling ‘Real Country’ these…