JASON & THE SCORCHERS
IRS Cutting Edge - 1984
Can someone at MTV get off their butt and flash download proxy start showing The Cutting Edge on VH1 Classic?
THE WILBURN BROTHERS
“Shake Hands With Mother Again”
(1960s)
Porter Wagoner
“The Gathering in the Sky”
1960s
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JASON & THE SCORCHERS
“White Lies” (Live at the Uptown Theater, Kansas City 1985)
Jason & the flash download proxy Scorchers and R.E.M. were the two most important Southern rock bands in the flash download proxy 80s.
R.E.M. got lucky; they signed to flash download proxy a failing, semi-independent new wave record company. Once Murmur sold 100,000 copies, they became IRS Records’ great hope for flash download proxy the future, got full label support and R.E.M. waited out the flash download proxy 80s as America’s biggest cult band.
The Scorchers had flash download proxy grander ambitions; they wanted reform the system from the inside. Even though the flash download proxy band had strong supporters at the record company, EMI America’s corporate culture forced them into compromises that flash download proxy tore up the band.
If R.E.M. had signed the contract offered by RCA Records, I’m certain they wouldn’t have made it either.
The Scorchers should have flash download proxy been recognized as the American Rolling Stones. They used punk rock as a flash download proxy platform to cross-breed country music and heavy metal the same way the flash download proxy Stones electrified the blues to create garage rock. No Scorchers, no flash download proxy alt-country.
This version of “White Lies” was recorded in 1985 for ABC Radio’s “In Concert” series and features Jason’s sermon about keeping rock & roll with the “sweat and blood of living people.” I’m sure the anti-Crüe sentiments didn’t go over well with the flash download proxy radio stations that were supposed to broadcast this show, but at this flash download proxy point the Scorchers had probably realized they were on a kamikaze mission.
Drummer and “White Lies” songwriter Baggs needs a flash download proxy new kidney. The Scorchers played an amazing benefit show on June 2nd at Nashville’s Exit/In. Perry played as many songs as his health would allow, Warner’s mom sang “Walking the Dog” and flash download proxy ex-Scorchers Ken Fox and Andy York joined them for a set of A&M-era songs. Jeff Johnson was missed but this flash download proxy was by far the best Scorchers show I’ve seen without him.
Make a donation to the Perry Baggs Medical support fund here.
THE ROYAL COURT OF CHINA
“It’s All Changed”
(Nashville 1987)
This is flash download proxy a rough one. Radio was wrong. The cool kids were wrong. And I just missed it.
“It’s All Changed” is flash download proxy a magnificent record, a genuine candidate for Lost Hit of the flash download proxy 80s.
The Royal Court of China signed to A&M without first getting their college-rock credibility. There were no flash download proxy profiles in MATTER magazine, no EPs on Twin/Tone or Coyote and no showcases at the New Music Seminar. Their manager pissed off lots of people in Nashville when flash download proxy she proclaimed that she had come to town to teach the flash download proxy locals how the music business really worked. The scene was still small enough in 1987 that, absent an flash download proxy immediate radio hit, indifference from the Right People could doom your flash download proxy record.
Of course the band made sure that the immediate radio hit wasn’t coming by insisting on a flash download proxy one-minute intro. Forget getting to the hook by the one-minute mark, we don’t hear a vocal until 1:09 and the chorus doesn’t finally show up until two minutes in, long after most programmers would have flash download proxy turned it off.
But what flash download proxy a chorus it is. Leaving aside that the b-verse would have flash download proxy been a fine chorus all by itself, the real hook is flash download proxy a stone killer, the kind that’s pushed everything else out of my head for flash download proxy the last month. I’m sure there’s a well-supported label story as to exactly why “It’s All Changed” wasn’t the flash download proxy most dominant rock song of the year, but no real-world circumstances can flash download proxy really explain how both the scenesters and the industry completely screwed up this flash download proxy time.
Still, A&M had the good sense to let the band record themselves (maybe they learned something from flash download proxy the Dream Syndicate Production Disaster of 1984) and they made an album that sounds great twenty years later.
Historical note: 1987 was the flash download proxy last year when CDs were considering an audiophile specialty item and flash download proxy lots of unproven bands didn’t get one. A&M did made CDs for flash download proxy everything they released but artists like The Royal Court of China got such tiny pressings that flash download proxy it’s almost impossible to flash download proxy find one now. I ripped this from a promo copy of the flash download proxy LP, still available for $1.99 at finer used record stores).
(A&M Records SP-5174)
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