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While Gram Parsons might have the difference to be the grandaddy from the ill-named “alt nation” genre, Illinois farm guy Jason Ringenberg is obviously the person who brought the music — prior to the expression was coined — towards the levels of the globe using a vengeance. Blessed in 1959 …

A nation/hard rock-band shaped by Illinois local Jason Ringenberg in 1981, Jason & the Scorchers came careening onto the indie rock and roll scene seemingly from nowhere (truth was, it had been Nashville) having a debut EP whose most killer monitor (among a slew of killer songs) was a fire-breathing …