Jason Ringenberg

jason ringenberg. photo by paul needham. “I can still rock as hard as ever, by God,” pronounced cowpunk forefather Jason Ringenberg last night at The Dame after wrapping up a warmly modified version of the Scorchers gem Shop It Around. “It just takes longer to recover.” While we can’t speak for whatever m

So god bless Mike Ireland for surveying an audience that topped out at 15 souls -- including the bartender, soundman and opening act -- and declaring, "There's a few people who actually came.

That one performance, captured in perpetuity on the web, seems to have attracted more attention for Farris than the several albums released by his old outfit, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, ever did.

Picture an incommodious stage, squeezed even tighter thanks to a large canvas beside the drum kit, in a dark Manhattan club uncustomarily filled with young mothers and their toddlers.