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Jason & the Scorchers New Year's Eve

Presented by The Rutledge at The Rutledge

December 31, 2011

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Head out to The Rutledge for live music and to ring in 2012 with Jason & The Scorchers!  With the release of HALCYON TIMES, Jason & The Scorchers have accomplished an extremely rare feat: almost 30 years into their career they have made a rock ‘n’ roll record every bit as dynamic and mind-blowing as their vintage work. Very few rock bands can make this claim. Jason & The Scorchers can, they should, and they do.The band’s story essentially starts in the late 1970s. Warner E. Hodges, the son of country musicians Blanche and Ed Hodges, was living in Nashville after his dad’s retirement from the military. Warner had played drums as a boy for his parents’ USO bands. He knew country music inside out. However, as a teenage rebel, he got hooked on early AC/DC and the first wave of punk rockers, waving that flag with high-decibel pride. In Nashville’s schmaltzy country pop atmosphere of that time, he stood out like a pig in a perfume shop. He played in punk and rock bands with his friends Perry Baggs and Jeff Johnson, two other tough street rockers in a genteel Southern town. They made a lot of noise but were essentially ignored outside of Nashville’s tiny rock community. - Jason & The Scorchers website

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 this special date at the Rutledge in the band’s hometown of Nashville on New Year’s Eve in which they play to film the show for a future DVD release.