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Americana Music Festival Showcase featuring Jason and the Scorchers in the Mercy Lounge - Thursday

The Mercy Lounge and Cannery Ballroom

September 18, 2008

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Join us after the Americana Honors and Awards ceremony and concert at the Ryman for a special Americana Music Festival Showcase featuring recipient of the Americana Music Association's prestigious Lifetime Achievement in Performance Award, Jason and the Scorchers! The evening kicks off at 10:00pm with Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles.

They were punk. They were country. They were rock. Perhaps most of all, they were originals. Jason and the Nashville Scorchers, as they were originally called, were messiahs for a 1980’s American rock scene suffering from a slight inferiority complex and aching for pride and grit. Together, frontman Jason Ringenberg, guitarist Warner Hodges, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer Perry Baggs, personified roots music experimentation, boasting an unparalleled respect for and familiarity with honky tonk, while wielding innate punk savvy. It wasn’t just how they said it: What they were saying also resonated. Ringenberg’s songwriting often drew heady thematic comparisons to Southern Gothic literary giants like Flannery O’Conner or William Faulkner, and Hodges’ influential guitar work roared in response as the scorching backbone of their euphoric sound’s dual-personality. The group’s spirited interpretations of traditional country classics by journeymen including Hank Williams were uninhibited celebrations of hillbilly soul. Their arguably unprecedented mix’s live translation is now legendary: The Scorchers infused the soul of Gram Parsons with the fury of the New York Dolls, shepherded by a lead vocalist who channeled both Faron Young and Iggy Pop. National and subsequent international acclaim arrived on the heels of major label albums and on the strength of live shows, released in conjunction with and steadily guided by early indie hometown believers Praxis. Instead of shying away from their southern roots, Jason and the Scorchers owned them, and quite simply, they made Nashville proud.

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  September 18, 2008

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  Thursday 10:00pm

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  The Mercy Lounge and Cannery Ballroom

  One Cannery Row Nashville, TN 37203

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