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Craig AndresenDatiy Nebraskan
Jason Cisenbcrs delivers a tiistcrir.? harmonica solo during Jason end
the Scorchers' eppearsr.ee Tuesday idht at the Drumstick.
Scorckero' comfey heritage
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ByUsh Mcclder and Derma Ciccon
A tidal wave of energy hit the Drum
stick when Jason and the Scorchers
took the stage Tuesday night.
They only played for about an hour
and a half, but covered a lot of ground
ripping from one song right into
another in an almost suicidal race
against time. When time ran out, the
band exited and left a frenzied crowd
screaming for more Jason. 7
Jason and the Scorchers is a hot
rockin', rollin' band from Nashville,
Tenn. The band includes Jason Rin
genberg on vocals, harmonica and
acoustic guitar; Perry Baggs on drums;
Warner Hodges on. guitar; and Jeff
Johnson on bass.
In an interview before Tuesday's
show, Hodges exposed 'some of the
things that have helped create the
Scorchers' music and style.
The music they play is high energy
rock 'n' roll, with a heavy country
influence. .
"Instead of using a blues -approach
like the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top or J.
Geils, we approach it from a country
standpoint," Hodges said. "Rock 'n' roll
simply comes from country-western
and the blues," he said.
"We tote the American flag and the
tradition," Hodges said. "Rock 'n' roll
really hasn't supposedly been Ameri
ca's for a long time.
"We're proud to be from here, we
don't have to have a bunch of plinka
plinka synthesizers to make rock 'n'
roll," he said. "I think Americans are
ready for some straight-ahead, honest,
real music, and that's what we'd like to
think we're doing. It is straight from
the heart and we'd like to keep the
integrity in our music."
Much of the Scorchers' country
inclination comes from their upbring
ing, which Hodges said is very impor
tant. "It's not a conscious 'let's be coun
try,' influence as much as it's just
embedded in our hearts and souls," he
said. -
"Jeff and Perry are native Nashvilli
ans, which is something you just don't
see there's no such thing as a native
NashviUlian. Everybody there moved
there or moved away they migrated.
Nobody's from there. (Jeff and Perry)
were raised on country music in Nash
ville, which is a country music city,
their whole life " licd'cs said.
"I played with my parents (Ed and
. Blanche Hodges, who played with such
notables as Johnny Cash and Lefty
FrizzEl) from the time I was nine years
old til I was 17. We played stone cold
country music three to four nights a
week," he said. :
The stuff C-ts d?ep-rooted in you.
t When I was a kid, I despised country. It
. was slow Lid bcrir. 1 and it didn't move
me, but through the course of time,
you realize how much this stuff influ
ences you," Hodges said.
Ringenberg was raised on country
music in Illinois and played in country,
bluegrass and rockabilly bands. He has
also. picked up on the feeling of the
South, Hodges said.
"My quote for the day on that is:
'American by birth, Southern by the
grace of God. If you want to know
what the South is like, all I can say is go
down there," Hodges said.
"We want people to know where
we're from, and we're going to let them
know, but we don't want to be auto
matically labeled as country music," he
said. Therefore, they dropped the
"Nashville" from "Jason and the Nash
ville Scorchers."
In places such as Japan and Austra
lia, the record stores would see the
Nashville monicker and put their
records only in the country bins, he
said. While they would like to see coun
try fans buy their albums, "It's a rock 'n'
roll record." Hodges said.
The Scorchers have released two
extended play records, Reckless Coun
try Soul and Fervor which was initially
released on the Praxis label. They wel
comed an EMI contract because they
needed a bigger label to get their music
out to more people, Hodges said.
Besides their song writing, their high
energy level was one thing that got
them the record deal with EMI, Hodges
said. "A lot of bands have one or two
members that are energetic, but you
never see a band where the whole
band is bustin ass from front to back,"
Hodges said.
Overall, Hodges said they prefer the
stage to the studio because when they
stay in the studio too long, they start to
stagnate.
"All my life, I've just wanted to get
out and play music," he said. "Twenty
three hours a day you wait around to
play that one hour that you love doing."
Jason and the .Scorchers' plans
include touring in Europe and working
on a full album for release in January.
They are taking time so all the songs oh
the album will be good ones. With the
price of records these days, they want
the albums to be worth every cent paid
for it, Hodges said.
As for playing in Lincoln, Hodges
said it's a fun place to come to get wild
and crazy. The Drumstick gave us a
place to play out this way, back when
nobody would gire us g5ci,B he said.
Anybody who missed the show cr
who just cannot wait until the
Scorchers return, can t comfort in
the fact that they will be back.':
Rirsnbsrg said that no matter how
famous they gzt, theyH always come
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