Description:
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. Track Listing: Disc One Best Tracks: Shop It Around (new lyrics and recording)/ The Life Of The Party (new recording)/Bible And A Gun (with Steve Earle)/Camille (with Swan Dive)/Punk Rock Skunk (rawk remix)/One Less Heartache (with The Wildhearts)/She Hung The Moon Until It Died/Rainbow Stew/For Addie Rose/Born To Run/The Price Of Progress/Prosperity Train/A Pocketful Of Soul/Eddie Rode The Orphan Train/Link Wray/Tuskegee Pride/Half The Man/Chief Josephs Last Dream/Broken Whiskey Glass (new recording with The Woodbox Gang)/The Last Train To Memphis. Disc Two Side Tracks: Lovely Christmas! (with Kristi Rose)/Moose On The Loose (with exended Webb Wilder outro)/The Sailors Eyes/Cappuccino Rosie (live country version with Arty Hill)/Moms 70th Birthday Song/Help Theres A Fire (Shakespeares Riot version)/Buckminster Fuller We Need You Now/Whos Gonna Feed Them Hogs/Paradise (with R.B. Morris, Tom Roznowski and Janas Hoyt)/Jimmie Rogers Last Blue Yodel (with The Wildhearts). (Yep Roc)
