All Over Creation

All Over Creation Artist: Jason Ringenberg
Label: Yep Roc Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 634457203624
EAN: 0634457203624
ASIN: B000067UL0


Release Date: 2002-06-18

All Over Creation


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Categories | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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Tracks:

  1. Honky Tonk Maniac From Mars (with Hammell on Trial)
  2. I Dreamed My Baby Came Home (with Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin)
  3. Bible And A Gun (with Steve Earle)
  4. Too High To See (with Tommy Womack)
  5. James Dean's Car (with Todd Snider)
  6. Camille (with Swan Dive)
  7. One Less Heartache (with The Wildhearts)
  8. Mother of Earth (with Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin)
  9. Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) (with BR549)
  10. Sun Don't Shine (with Paul Burch)
  11. Erin's Seed (with Lambchop)
  12. Last Train To Memphis (with George Bradfute)

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Amazon.com

A godfather of alternative country, Jason Ringenberg and his band, the Scorchers, brought a punk sensibility to country music with their landmark 1983 EP, <I>Fervor</I>. Nearly 20 years later, Ringenberg is still putting his own unique spin on country music. For the impressive <I>All Over Creation</I>, he enlists help from some of his left-of-center musical friends, including Steve Earle, Todd Snider, Tommy Womack, Lambchop, Kristi Rose, and the Wildhearts. As the title implies, the album is a stylistic grab bag, with hard country ("I Dreamed My Baby Came Home"), exuberant rockabilly ("Honky Tonk Maniac from Mars"), story songs ("Bible and a Gun 1863"), wistful pop ("Camille"), historical ballads ("Erin's Seed"), and Scorcher-esque rock & roll ("Too High to See"). The guest artists add some nice vocal harmonies, but Ringenberg is the star attraction here. His twangy voice is anything but slick, but it's endearingly heartfelt, and his songs are honest and sincere. Even Loretta Lynn's classic "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)," with BR549, is played straight as nails. <I>--David Hill</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very fine solo Jason release with good song writing and George Bradfute's superb (but not overbaring) guitar!.......2006-06-07

Better effort here than on Empire
Builders where Jason's sometimes
leftist leaning come out of place
on occasion. Not quite as good as
'92's Jason and Pocketful of Soul.
But certainly better than Clear
Impetuous Morning. Look for many
more releases by outstanding band
Jason and the Scorchers!

5 out of 5 stars A little box of surprises.......2006-04-05

Para presentar su anterior disco "A Pocketful Of Soul" (2000), Jason Ringenberg se embarcó en una gira en solitario. Sin embargo, a la menor oportunidad acababa con una jam con otros músicos: de ese espíritu de colaboración surgió el proyecto de "All Over Creation", donde el exlíder de los Scorchers reúne a algunos de sus amigos.
Respaldado por los multiinstrumentistas George Bradfute y Fats Kaplin, Ringenberg nos regala una caja de sorpresas, donde están presentes todos sus "amores": desde el country tradicional más ortodoxo hasta el cowpunk que creó al frente de los Scorchers.
Y es que en "All Over Creation" nos topamos con rockabilly explosivo ("Honky Tonk Maniac From Mars", con Hammel On Trial); hillbilly acústico puro y duro (el "I Dreamed My Baby Came Home" de George Jones, con Kristi Rose); canciones narrativas (la épica "Bible And A Gun", con Steve Earle); enérgico roots rock al estilo Scorchers ("Too High To See", con Tommy Womack; "James Dean's Car", con Todd Snider; o "One Less Heartache", con los británicos Wildhearts); honky tonk trotón (el "Don't Come Home A Drinkin'" de Loretta Lynn, con BR549); cánticos bluegrass (el "Mother Of Earth" de Gun Club, con Kristi Rose); y hasta baladas históricas (el lacónico "Erin's Seed", con Lambchop).
A pesar de la variedad de estilos e invitados, Jason se erige como el protagonista y vuelve a demostrar su doble talento como compositor y cantante. Con discos como éste, su papel como creador del cowpunk e indirecto instigador del Alt. Country queda más que claro.

5 out of 5 stars Jason continues to lead the way........2003-06-25

Not much to say about this album. Just listen to it! It's a treasure trove of great music and great musicians all held together by Jason.

4 out of 5 stars +1/2 -- Eclectic collection of folk, rock, country and more.......2003-02-23

Ringenberg's second solo album chronologically follows a pair of Jason & The Scorchers releases, but more properly a follow-up to his 2000 solo LP, "A Pocketful of Soul." The tour for this latter album introduced Ringenberg to the numerous collaborators who appear on this "duets" collection. The diverse array of guests provide additional fuel for Rigenberg's eclectic and far-reaching tastes. The songs -- mostly originals -- range from acoustic country-folk to bluegrass to rockabilly and hard-driving rock. Ringenberg and his guests sound at home across the entire array, and the result is a surprising unity between the styles.

Highlights include an acoustic-backed close-harmony duet with Kristi Rose, reprising George Jones' and Melba Montgomery's "I Dreamed My Baby Came Home" (from their rather obscure 1964 "Bluegrass Hootenanny" album). A moving rewrite of Steve Earle's "Bible and a Gun" re-imagines the story in Civil War times, with Earle providing a truly outstanding reading of the second verse. The American Civil War also provides the setting (and Nashville's Lambchop the tender backing) for "Erin's Seed," a tale of Irish immigrants whose dispersal to the South and North results in their clans ironic demise ("Our civil war did finish what their famine had begun.").

Todd Snider (of "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" fame) co-wrote and sings on the pop-rock "James Dean's Car," a song that would sound at home in the hands of Ben Vaughn. Nashville's Swan Dive provides the electric twang and backing vocal behind Ringenberg's ballad for his daughter, "Camille." Tommy Womack brings a power-pop sound to "Too High To See," and Britain's Wild Hearts provide crunchy rock guitars for the love lost sing-a-long, "One Less Heartache."

Kristi Rose makes a second appearance for a haunting cover of Gun Club's "Mother of Earth," and BR549 provide backup for a surprisingly lackluster cover of Loretta Lynn's "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)." The album closes with the original "The Last Train to Memphis," pairing the guitars of George Bradfute with the fiddle of Fats Kaplin for a wonderfully downbeat talking blues.

This is a wonderfully diverse album from a mature talent who's able to fuse the broad roots of his musical upbringing into a compelling new whole.

5 out of 5 stars

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