If Mick Jones had been born on a hog farm in Illinois, then he might have been Jason Ringenberg. The frontman of Jason & The Scorchers was as punk as the Pistols and as country as Cash. The band tore through the 80s with such contemporaries as the Long Ryders and R.E.M., setting the bar for alt.country and inspiring a generation to dig out their parents’ Gram Parsons albums. Here they are with the wonderful ‘White Lies’.
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utter genius……