Hellfire
It’s about time.
Seriously…has anyone shaped the face of Americana music more than Jason and the Scorchers?
The Americana Music Association is proud to announce pioneers Jason and the Scorchers will receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement in Performance Award at the annual Americana Honors and Awards show Thursday, September 18 at the Ryman Auditorium. Original Jason and the Scorchers members Jason Ringenberg, Warner Hodges, Jeff Johnson and Perry Baggs will be on hand not only to accept the honor, but to perform together for the first time in more than a decade.
While we’re at it, an unnamed, yet hardly unknown guitarist whose work has helped shape Americana music and I agreed on something today: without Jason and the Scorchers there’d be no alt-country.
This came up in a discussion of a recent list of the best alt-country guitarists which noticeably didn’t include Warner Hodges! It’s a shame that he (as well as Buddy Miller, Alejandro Escavedo, Pete Anderson, Dan Baird, Jesse Taylor, and Brian Henneman) didn’t make this list of the top 10 alt-country guitarists. With his theatrics and grinding guitar, Hodges is one of the high-water marks in this genre.
Still, it’s good to see the boys get their due. I can’t imagine where we were before they hit the stage!