Garbage Days Revisited #67: Jason & The Scorchers - "Still Standing" (1986)
"And though you are so far away, ten thousand miles of sorrow/This prison cannot, will not kill our blessed free tomorrow" - Jason & The Scorchers - Good Things Come To Those Who Wait Like a lot of Britrockers my age, it's probably Ginger Wildheart 's fault that I became a Jason & The Scorchers fan. They're a band who the G-man has never made any secret of his admiration for and the Wildhearts even covered the Scorchers classic White Lies as a B-side to Anthem many years ago. Most people who've heard them will happily tell you that the group's 1983 EP Fervor and their 1985 debut full length* Lost & Found are classics of the cowpunk genre, the perfect missing link between Johnny Cash and the Ramones and you can add me to that list as well. The follow-up, 1986's Still Standing though? Now that one seems to be a bit more divisive. And that's why it's the one we're covering here on Garbage Days Revisited... (* - well, sort ...