Jason Ringenberg - Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007
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Artist: Jason RingenbergEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-01-22
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Shop It Around
- The Life Of the Party
- Bible And Gun
- Camille
- Punk Rock Skunk
- One Less Heartache
- She Hung the Moon
- Rainbow Stew
- For Addie Rose
- Born To Run
- The Price Of Progress
- Prosperity Train
- A Pocketful Of Soul
- Eddie Rose the Orphan Train
- Link Wray
- Tuskeegee Pride
- Half the Man
- Chief Joseph's Last Dream
- Broken Whiskey Glass
- The Last Train To Memphis
- Lovely Christmas
- Moose On the Loose
- The Sailor's Eyes
- Cappaccino Rosie
- Mom's 70th Birthday Song
- Help There's a Fire
- Buckminster Fuller We Need You Now
- Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs
- Paradise
- Jimmie Rodgers Last Blue Yodel
Music reviews of Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007
Music Review: Fine Collection of Old and New Tracks
Rating: 4 Stars
Jason Ringenberg, of course, was the voice and principal songwriter of the mid-Eighties alt-country band Jason & The Scorchers. While the Scorchers' last album was released in 1996, Ringenberg has released several critically acclaimed solo albums beginning with 1991's ONE FOOT IN THE HONKY TONK in 1992 while the Scorchers were on hiatus. About three years ago I was lucky enough to see Ringenberg with a reunited Scorchers on one of their handful of reunion shows. And Ringenberg's solo work displays all the energy of his earlier work with the Scorchers.
In fact, this collection kicks off with a reworking of "Shop It Around" from 1984's LOST AND FOUND. One of the other 2007 recordings is a new version of "The Life of the Party" from ONE FOOT IN THE HONKY TONK. [Licensing restrictions prevented Ringenberg from including any original tracks from that album.] Highlights include a duet with Steve Earle on "Bible and a Gun," the aching ballad "For Addie Rose," the rocking "Prosperity Train" and a hyped-up guitar number "Link Wray" featuring Los Straitjackets. Truth to tell, there isn't a weak track on disc one.
Disc two, however, is a bit more eclectic. The disck kicks off with a Christmas song that is half trad-country and half punk. [Think Patsy Cline meets the Ramones.] Certainly one of the quirkier Christmas songs you're likely to ever hear. "Moose on the Loose" is an extended mix of a track from Ringenberg's second children's record. "The Sailor's Eyes" is a a never before released track from 2007. In the liner notes, Ringenberg says the song "tells the story of my years with Jason and the Scorchers." "Cappaccino Rosie" is a live version of a country weeper that appeared on the last Scorchers' album CLEAR IMPETUOUS MORNING. "Mom's 70th Birthday Song" is a ballad recorded in 1999 originally intended for A POCKETFUL OF SOUL. "Help There's a Fire" will be recognizable to Scorcher fans, but this is the original version recorded in 1980 by Ringenberg's band at the time Shakespeare's Riot. Philosopher Buckminster Fuller may seem like an odd subject for a song, but "Buckminster Fuller We Need You Now" is a pleasant if not terrific country song. "Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs" was recorded for (and ultiamtely rejected by) the compilers of a Tom T. Hall tribute CD. "Paradise" is a loving version of the John Prine chestnut. The disc closes with a pull-out-all-the-stops version of "Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel" featuring The Wildhearts.
For fans who cherish the memory of Jason and the Scorchers, this collection is a goldmine of some of Ringenberg's best tracks over the past decade. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED [Disc-1, 73:42; Disc 2, 30:06]
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Since his emergence in Nashville in 1981 with the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has blazed a trail through country music with punk attitude and the heart of a dusty road poet. With The Scorchers, Ringenberg set the high water mark for country rock performers, laying waste to gritty bar rooms and fancy stages from Nashville to L.A. A key patriarch of both the alt-country and Americana explosions of the 1990s, Jason is roots music royalty and his creative lineage is detailed here on the two-disc collection 'Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007.' The set includes tracks from all phases of Ringenberg's storied solo career - new versions of Scorchers classics, re-mastered original solo material, rarities and new unreleased tracks. Re-worked Scorchers classic, 'Shop It Around' starts out the 'Best Tracks' disc and 'Help There's a Fire' from 'Side Tracks' represents Jason's pre-Scorchers band Shakespeare's Riot, making this the definitive Jason Ringenberg compendium. The set even includes material from Ringenberg's children's music persona, Farmer Jason. Built for hardcore fans and country music historians alike, 'Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007' sums up the career of one of roots music's most influential artists.Alternative Rock CDs
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