Jason Ringenberg

Welcome to the Flyin Shoes Motel site of legendary Nashville singer-songwriter and alt-country, cow-punk pioneer Jason Ringenberg co founder of Jason and The Scorchers, seminal Alt-Country pioneers. Jason has asked me to post this with his house concert hub site, he will however be monitoring any corrispondence.
Rob Ellen

Jason Ringenberg's Fruits of Honest Labor

by Tommy Womack

A couple of years ago Jason and I were doing a run of dates together through the snowy Midwest. I was road-ragged and he was fresh as a daisy. He'd driven across Alaska not long before and spent six weeks in Sweden and England and Holland before that! We got to talking about farm life and how Jason and his brother grew up feeding the hogs at five in the morningeveryday. "You know," Jason said to me, "My brother and I worked ALL the time. It was incredibly hard work for an adult, let alone a skinny 9 year old boy. It was a never ending cycle feeding the hogs, cleaning out the hog houses (by hand), hauling water and straw, or working the fields. It didn't matter if it was New Years Day or 105 degrees in the shade, the work never stopped. We never thought a thing about it. It's just what we did." It's still what he does. That work ethic learned early, and his boundless energy, came to make him the force he became in later years.

This is also a great idea from the great mind of Rob Ellen. I am all for this, even if I am quite tech impaired!

Jason Ringenberg
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