Current Status
Ringenberg now performs as Farmer Jason and does children's music. He also performs solo shows playing his own stuff and even Scorchers classics.
The band played several gigs in Scandinavia and Britain in May 2008, as you can see on Jason Ringenberg's official Website. This coincides with a couple of solo shows from Jason and Farmer Jason around the same time, and Warner E. Hodges solo shows (which you can see on Warner's myspace)end of April. This marks something like the real return of the band. There was also a US show at the Johnstown Folk Festival, Labor Day weekend 2008.
In June 2007 Jason & the Scorchers reunited for a Perry Baggs- Benefit- Show in Nashville at Exit/In.
They also played one single European- gig in Spain in September 2007.
Warner E. Hodges is a full-time member of Dan Baird & Homemade Sin, touring through Europe in October 2007, as well as releasing a new Homemade Sin album 12 May 2008 on Jerkin Crocus Records, UK, and touring UK, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden
In 2007 Warner E Hodges, Kenny Ames and Fenner Castner played four UK shows under the name Ginger and The Scorchers, with Wildhearts frontman Ginger on vocals, as well as a full tour as a three piece solo Warner E Hodges project, he toured the UK again April 2008 (see myspace.com/warnerehodges).
In Sept. 2010, Ringenberg reunited with his Shakespeare's Riot bandmates Gibula and Miller for brief performances at a coffeehouse and an outdoor pavilion in Carbondale, Illinois.
Jason & The Scorchers recorded a new album—their first in eleven years—titled "Halcyon Times"in 2010. They are touring intermittently in support of this album, including four dates in January, 2011.
Former drummer and songwriter Perry Baggs became an archivist at The Tennessean where he was employed for 17 years. He also played bass guitar with the Scottsboro First Baptist Church Praise Band. He passed away in his home on July 12th, 2012, following a 22-year battle with diabetes. He was working on a gospel album at the time; "Hymns For Him".
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